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=== <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></span></span> ===

<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The Lean Startup Machine, the world famous workshop and educational series on building a successful business in three days, is globally available in all major cities, &nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">and &nbsp;</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">features &nbsp;</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span>global &nbsp;</span></span><span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">partners &nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span>such as Microsoft Ventures and Elance. This conslulting organization was </span>organizationwas founded in 2010, some of its reviews include:</span></span>

<span style="color:#2f4f4f;">''<span style="font-size:medium;">"The Lean Startup Machine was a synthesis of a lot of my frustrations with how the companies I've worked for over the past few years have created </span><span style="font-size:medium;">products, <span>&nbsp;</span>and showed me that a much &nbsp;</span>''</span>''<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">better &nbsp;</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">way was possiblep</span></span>''<span style="color:#2f4f4f;">''<span style="font-size:medium;">ossible</span>''</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">''<span style="font-size:medium;">. A hugely &nbsp;eye -opening &nbsp;experience &nbsp;for me, and I had a blast working with really smart, energetic people."</span>''</span>

<span style="color:#2f4f4f;">''<span style="font-size:medium;">"These type of events changed my life, it is amazing what a simple community push can do for you. Discover what you can do, and who you love doing it with."</span>''</span>

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<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:medium;">The workshop lasts three days and teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products. By definition, a disruptive product is a product so superior to the earlier technology that it displaces it (e.g. CDs replaced tape cassettes). Additionally, &nbsp;<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup Machine is not a hackaton, meaning that it does not have a goal has helped tens of thousands of individuals in hundreds of developing superior software, but instead focuses on building ideas and centering businesses cities around the problemworld make strides towards their goal by showing them where their&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">ideas&nbsp;</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">fail&nbsp;</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-centric approach wrap;">and team work.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">fall&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">apart.</span></span></span>

The workshop kicks off with a series of product pitches that help attendees organize into teams<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup Machine (LSM) is service by popular demand: if enough people call, they’ll come. Everyone works Working on a NEW idea. Each team then develops its problem hypothesisvote based system, solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions which cities are core ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to the success of the businesshold an event. Next, each team creates From</span>there<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">organizers are selected and an MVP, or event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a&nbsp;startup&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">boot camp</span></span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:medium;"Minimum Viable Product.>&nbsp;<span style=" The goal of the MVP test is to font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"Get Out Of >that&nbsp;teaches the Building," speak Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with real potential customers . It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to collect cash or non-cash currency which serves as validationdevelop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.</span></span></span>

The process promotes a problem= <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purpose</span></span></span> =<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;">''<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e378-2544-8e20-73abdeaa5450"><span style="font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lean Startup machine hopes you fail fast and succeed faster.</span></span></span></span>''</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"></p><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; text-centric approach to business ideationindent: 36pt;">At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. By continuously validating Teams then self-select around particular ideas and invalidating assumptions</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">develops</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">a problem, teams are forced to pivot their a solution (hypothesis and even problem) toward a true customer pain; rather series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than creating spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a solution and afterfew hours to create </span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">an "</span></span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-thewrap; text-fact seeking indent: 36pt;">Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers with a problemand validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.</span></span>

The event culminates <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; text-indent: 36pt;">With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with each team pitching its their new solutions and its experience using the insights in hand. The processpromotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. In this competition the winning team is not selected based on who has the best ideaBy continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, but instead on which team honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivotsteams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.</span></span>

<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span id== "docs-internal-guid-20389045-e378-2544-8e20-73abdeaa5450"><span style="marginfont-size: 0px11pt; paddingfont-family: 0pxArial; linebackground-heightcolor: 1.4transparent; font-familyvariant-numeric: arial, sans, sansnormal; font-serifvariant-east-asian: normal; fontvertical-sizealign: 13pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Distinct Differences From Other OfferingsThe event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions and experiences using the process. The team which honors the process and gains the most insights through its pivots is selected as the winner of the weekend.</span></span></span> ===

SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering<span style="color:#2f4f4f;">[[File:Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1. With this in mind, strenghts, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats are analyzedpng|thumb|Board CPE3-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1.&nbsp;png]]</span>

'''Strenghts'''&nbsp=== <span style="color:#2f4f4f;of the program feature the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simulataneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Distinct Differences from other Offerings</span></span></or invalidated results.span> ===

'''Weaknesses'''&nbsp<span style="color:#2f4f4f;of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent"><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e414-699e-29e3-8ba4d66c471e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The SWOT approach can be used to analyze this offering. The website assumes that its audience has some minor background With this in business. Coming from a different field of expertisemind, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives. This is by no means a good thingstrengths, particularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materialsweaknesses, they have not sent them to me at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the websiteopportunities, the program is not as clear as it could be with a few minor improvementsand threats are analyzed.</span></span></span>

[[File<span style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strengths of the program</span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e414-699e-29e3-8ba4d66c471e" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">features</span></span></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:Board CPE3pre-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1wrap;">the fact that the program not only offers help in building up a business into a strategic and efficient entity, but simultaneously provides training in product development and design thinking that takes a customer hypothesis, turns it into problem hypothesis, and arrives at the solution hypothesis. This starting process is then repeated for 1st Pivot, 2nd Pivot, etc. After performing design experiments, the goal is to arrive at validated and/or invalidated results. The program as a whole has also demonstrated its ability to be replicated across the nation, which is something many accelerators struggle with.png|thumb]]</span></span>

For faculty <span style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another key point of difference and staff members, strength is the goal duration of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness workshop. Because of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques</span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e414-699e-29e3-8ba4d66c471e" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">it’s</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">intermediate length, the team there is sufficient time to cram in a lot of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to information while making the university product program shorter than say a 10 week or </span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">summer long</span></span></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt; color: rgb(47, 79, 79);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre- educationwrap;">project. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting The workshop gives its users the appropriate footing to take off once they leave on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able third day. To compare this to improve bottomprograms such as I-upCorp or The Commons, by first improving the teaching methodsMilwaukee startup accelerators, educational and design spaceswhich take about 10 once-a-week meetups to complete, they are able to get a company off of the ground and the performance running in a matter of their studentsthree consecutive days. Ultimately, this should serve This allows companies and users to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institutionget in and get out with precision, which will in turn have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individualsso they can continue on with their expansion as soon as possible.</span></span>

<span style="font-family:tahomaArial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(47,geneva79,sans79); text-serifindent: 36pt;">1Weaknesses of the program are not apparent, but the weaknesses of their website and staff are apparent. Unlock Your City: Each city must log The website assumes that its audience has some minor background in business. Coming from a certain number different field of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachineexpertise, this poses a challenge for companies that don't necessarily have business representatives.com to find your city and see where your progress This is. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union Collegeby no means a good thing, specificallyparticularly when combined with the fact that upon requesting their offered materials, would they have not sent them to reach out to businesses local to Schenectadyme at all. Dealing solely with the concise information on the website, NY and team up the program is not as clear as it could be with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshopa few minor improvements.</span>

<span style="font-family:tahomaArial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(47,geneva79,sans79); text-serifindent: 36pt;">4. OrganizerOpportunities that may improve this resource would be excellent customer support, improving the ease of access to information on the organization, such as providing accessible and available email addresses or email contact forms, transcribing their Validation Board (ssee bottom of the section) Chosen: After into a city receives that number verbalized set of steps, while not revealing full details of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: to make program, with the event possible. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union Collegepurposes of still maintaining customer interest in them.</span>

<span style="font-family:tahomaArial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(47,geneva79,sans79); text-serifindent: 36pt;">7. Deadlines: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out Threats that may arise would be any potential government bills, larger consulting companies that are more renowned, or competition that is available on the door to ensure the best event possibleconsulting market (such as more competitive offerings in terms of quality, approach, and cost).</span>

=== <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:large;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family:tahomaarial,genevasans,sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers: You’ll need mentors Impact Achieved For Students and speakers to help have a great event. LSM's newly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.Campus</span></span></span>===

<span style="font-family:tahomaArial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(47,geneva79,sans-serif79);">9There are fewer documented cases of the Lean Startup Machine taking place directly on campuses, although the program does encourage students to attend their workshops off campus and even offers a discount for students. Convinced? Fill out this form and Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http://bitprograms are not beneficial for students.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bitThe LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.ly/OrganizeLSM]</span>

<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sansArial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-serifcolor: transparent;">[[File:LeanMachineThe Lean Startup Machine would provide business-oriented students with entrepreneurial training and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes to develop a successful business upon startup.jpg|right|LeanMachineThe skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavors, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.jpg]]</span></span>

<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e359-1d72-9248-b070bf33cee5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects of an educational ecosystem. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how to improve and innovate their approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methods, educational and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students to attend this particular institution, which will, in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.</span></span></span><div><br/></div>=== <span style="font-size:large;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Contact InformationSteps Required To Bring Resource to Campus</span></span></span> ===

<span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e40f-1fce-b2b9-cc221ba19537"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unlock your Your City: This is the most difficult step. Each city requires a certain number of votes to be ‘unlocked’. Individuals in the Columbus area can register their emails to indicate they would like an event to take place in Columbus. Only when a certain number of individuals have voted is it possible to host an event in a city:. Check out their website&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;">[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ https://www.leanstartupmachine.com]&nbsp;</]span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">to find your city and see where your progress is.</span>

Enterprise Consulting<span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e40f-1fce-b2b9-cc221ba19537"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: &nbspnormal;[httpsfont-variant-position://www.leanstartupmachine.com/enterprisenormal; vertical-leanalign: baseline; white-startup httpsspace://wwwpre-wrap;">2.leanstartupmachineWhen you have registered on the website, you gain access to program descriptions, the LSM Experiment board, a job board (coming soon), as well as access to the organization's blog.com</enterprise-lean-startup]span></span>

For further inquiries contact<span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e40f-1fce-b2b9-cc221ba19537"><span style="font-size: drew@leanstartupmachine11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Get Some Help: LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city! Once a city receives the required number of unlocks, then an organizer is selected from the Lead Evangelists to set up the event.com</span></span>

Facebook<span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e40f-1fce-b2b9-cc221ba19537"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8. Qualify Mentors &nbsp;[httpsSpeakers:LSM's curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers to make sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network.</span></www.facebook.comspan><div><br/leanstartupmachine https:></div><br/www><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">[[File:LeanMachine.facebookjpg|right|LeanMachine.comjpg]]</span></leanstartupmachine]span>

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Tumblr<span style="color:&nbsp#2f4f4f;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlock your city:</span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679e">[httphttps://leancommunitywww.tumblrleanstartupmachine.com/ httphttps://leancommunitywww.tumblrleanstartupmachine.com]</]span>

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