<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. Working on a vote based system, cities are ‘unlocked’ for an event if enough people vote for the city to hold an event. From</span>there<span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">organizers are selected and an event is organized. Their intensive 3-day workshop is a startup </span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">bootcamp</span></span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> <span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">that teaches the Lean Startup methodology of rapidly validating your assumptions and meeting with potential customers. It is designed to help entrepreneurs and innovators learn how to develop disruptive products from the best startup mentors in the community.</span></span></span>
= <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="color:#2f4f4f;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e378-2544-8e20-73abdeaa5450"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align: center;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br/></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><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; text-indent: 36pt;">At the beginning of each weekend, people pitch NEW ideas. Teams then self-select around particular ideas and </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, a solution hypothesis and a series of assumptions on which a company’s success would predicate. Rather than spend weeks developing a complete design, each team spends a few 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-wrap; text-indent: 36pt;">Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) which they use to demonstrate their idea to real customers and validate their assumptions and hypotheses by collecting cash and non-monetary currency to serve as validation.</span></span>
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<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 their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.</span></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; text-indent: 36pt#2f4f4f;">With customer feedback, teams then regroup to pivot the design with their new insights in hand. The process promotes a problem-centric approach to business ideation. By continuously validating and invalidating assumptions, teams are forced to determine true customer pains; rather than finding a group whose problem matches their solution.<br/></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e378-2544-8e20-73abdeaa5450"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 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>
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=== <span idstyle="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e378-2544-8e20-73abdeaa5450color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 11ptlarge; font-family"><span style="margin: Arial0px; colorpadding: rgb(0, 0, 0)0px; backgroundline-colorheight: transparent1.4; font-variant-numericfamily: normal; font-variant-eastarial, sans, sans-asian: normal; vertical-align: baselineserif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The event culminates in a competition where each team pitches their new solutions Impact Achieved For Students 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.Campus</span></span></span>===
[[File<span style="color:Board CPE3#2f4f4f;"><span id="docs-b0f52ef138baae57926d12dc9aa0ded1internal-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;">There 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. Even though the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universities, that does not mean that the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for students. The LSM program has the potential to have a widespread positive impact if brought to Universities and offered directly to students, faculty, and staff.png|thumb]]</span></span></span>
=== <span style="font-sizecolor:large#2f4f4f;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; linefont-heightfamily: 1.4Arial; font-familysize: arial, sans, sans-serif11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Impact Achieved For Students The 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. The 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 Campusthus infinitely competitive.</span></span> ===
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e359-1d72-9248-b070bf33cee5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are fewer documented cases 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 taking place directly on campusesentrepreneurial techniques, although the program does encourage students team of university employees would be trained in how to attend improve and innovate their workshops off campus approach to the university product - education. By innovating a learning environment, and even offers a discount for students. Even though reflecting on the university's SWOT landscape, the university is able to improve bottom-up, by first improving the LSM workshops are not commonly hosted on universitiesteaching methods, educational and design spaces, that does not mean that and the Lean Startup Machine programs are not beneficial for performance of their students. The LSM program has the potential Ultimately, this should serve to have a widespread positive impact if brought attract even more competitive students to Universities and offered directly to studentsattend this particular institution, which will, facultyin turn, and staffhave even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individuals.</span></span></span><div><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><br/></span></div>=== <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;">Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus</span></span>===
<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69)#2f4f4f; "><span style="font-family: Arialtahoma,geneva,sans-serif; ">Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major</span></span><span style="font-sizefamily: 11pttahoma,geneva,sans-serif; white-space"><span style="color: pre-wrap#2f4f4f; background-">cities,</span></span><span style="color: transparent#2f4f4f;">The Lean Startup Machine would provide business<span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-oriented students with entrepreneurial training serif;">and lead non-business students to get a glimpse into what it takes offers particular student discounts. In order to develop organize a successful business upon startup. The skills acquired through the successful completion of the program will give students on a jump start into transforming their ideas into successful business endeavorscollege campus, and how to approach product or service improvements in order to make their business disruptive, and thus infinitely competitive.one should follow these steps:</span></span>
<span idstyle="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e359-1d72-9248-b070bf33cee5color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(69tahoma, 69geneva, 69); backgroundsans-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrapserif;">For faculty and staff members, the goal of 1. Unlock Your City: Each city must log a Lean Startup training would be improving the competitiveness of certain aspects number of an educational ecosystemvotes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine. This could mean that through using Lean Startup Machine entrepreneurial techniques, the team of university employees would be trained in how com to improve find your city and innovate their approach to the university product see where your progress is. Cities range from 150- education250 votes depending on size. By innovating a learning environmentUnion College, and reflecting on the university's SWOT landscapespecifically, the university is able would have to reach out to businesses local to improve bottom-up, by first improving the teaching methodsSchenectady, educational NY and design spaces, and the performance of their students. Ultimately, this should serve to attract even more competitive students team up with them in an attempt to attend this particular institution, which will, bring in turn, have even better methods for shaping them into outstanding individualsan LSM workshop.</span></span><div><br/></div>=== <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus</span> ===
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">Lean Startup Machine training is offered in all major cities, and offers particular student discounts2. In order Register on the website to obtain access to organize a full information, including program on a college campusdescriptions, recommendations, and details, one should follow these steps:as well as access to the organization's blog.</span></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">1. Unlock Your City3 Get Some Help: Each city must log a certain number of votes to be unlocked. Check out www.leanstartupmachine.com to find your city and see Here is where your progress islocal businesses kick in. Cities range from 150-250 votes depending on size. Union CollegeLSM requires five media partners, specifically, would have and six 'evangelists' to reach out spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to businesses local to Schenectady, NY and team up with them in an attempt to bring in an LSM workshop.your city!</span></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">24. Register on Organizer(s) Chosen: After a city receives that</span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">number</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the website “Lead Evangelists: to obtain access to full informationmake the event possible. In this </span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">case</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">the </span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">Laad</span></span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma, including program descriptionsgeneva, recommendations, and details, as well as access to the organization's blogsans-serif;">Evangelist would be Union College.</span></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">3 Get Some Help5. Select Date: Here is where local businesses kick in. LSM requires five media partners, and six 'evangelists' works with you to spread the word that Lean Startup Machine is coming to your city!select a date once previous steps are complete.</span></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">46. Organizer(s) ChosenPerks: After a city receives that number LSM rewards their event organizers by returning 20% of unlocks then an organizer is selected from the “Lead Evangelists: profits to make the event possibleorganizer in the city. In this case the Laad Evangelist would be Union CollegeWith LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher</span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">percent</span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;">,</span></span><span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">and special discounts upon appropriate communication. </span></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">57. Select DateDeadlines: LSM works with you to select a date once previous steps are completeset key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible.</span></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">68. PerksQualify Mentors & Speakers: LSM rewards their You’ll need mentors and speakers to help have a great event organizers by returning 20% of the profits to the organizer in the city. With LSM's fondness for educational institutions, a university is nearly always guaranteed even higher percentnewly designed curriculum will help you assess mentors and speakers, and special discounts upon appropriate communicationmake sure they’re top tier for the event. LSM promises to source experts from their global network. </span></span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">79. DeadlinesConvinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: LSM works with you to set key deadlines for getting tickets out the door to ensure the best event possible</span></span><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">[http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM <span style="color:#2f4f4f;">http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM</span>]</span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;">8. Qualify Mentors & Speakers[[File: You’ll need mentors 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 eventLeanMachine. LSM promises to source experts from their global networkjpg|right|LeanMachine.jpg]]</span></span>
=== <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-family:tahomaarial,genevasans,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">9. Convinced? Fill out this form and Lean Startup Machine will be in touch: [http:Contact Information<//bit.ly/OrganizeLSM http://bit.ly/OrganizeLSM]span></span>===
<span style="color:#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">[https://www.leanstartupmachine.com/ <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family:tahomaArial; color: rgb(45,geneva92,sans136); background-color: transparent; font-serifweight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[[File>https:LeanMachine//www.jpg|right|LeanMachineleanstartupmachine.jpg]com/</span></span>]</span>
<span style="color:#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;">For further inquiries contact:</span></span></span><span id= "docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679e">[mailto:drew@leanstartupmachine.com <span style="margincolor: 0px#2f4f4f; padding: 0px">< linespan style="font-heightsize: 1.411pt; font-family: arialArial; color: rgb(17, sans85, sans204); background-serifcolor: transparent; font-sizevariant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: 13pxbaseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine.com</span></span>Contact Information]</span> ===
<span idstyle="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679ecolor:#2f4f4f;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); 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 cityFacebook: </span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679e">[https://www.leanstartupmachinefacebook.com/ leanstartupmachine <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">>https://www.leanstartupmachinefacebook.com/leanstartupmachine</span></span>]</span>
<span idstyle="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679ecolor:#2f4f4f;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For further inquiries contactTwitter: </span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679e">[mailtohttps:drew@leanstartupmachine//twitter.com /lean <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(1745, 8592, 204136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">drew@leanstartupmachine>https://twitter.com/lean</span></span>]</span>
<span idstyle="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679ecolor:#2f4f4f;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FacebookTumblr: </span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679e">[httpshttp://wwwleancommunity.facebooktumblr.com/leanstartupmachine <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https>http://wwwleancommunity.facebooktumblr.com/leanstartupmachine</span></span>]</span>
<span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt; 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;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:</span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679e">[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="color:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-size: 11pt10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twitter: <></span>[https://twitter.com/lean <><span style="font-size: 11pt10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https>http://twitterwww.linkedin.com/leanin/owenstrevor</span></span>]</span>
<span idstyle="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679ecolor:#2f4f4f;"><span style="font-sizemargin: 11pt0px; font-familypadding: Arial0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); backgroundline-colorheight: transparent1.4; font-variant-ligaturesfamily: normal; fontarial, sans, sans-variant-east-asian: normalserif; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-alignsize: baseline13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">TumblrTrevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn: </span>[http://leancommunity.tumblr.com</ span><span style="font-sizemargin: 11pt0px; font-familypadding: Arial0px; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); backgroundline-colorheight: transparent1.4; font-weightfamily: 700; fontarial, sans, sans-variant-ligatures: normalserif; font-variant-east-asiansize: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">[http://leancommunitywww.tumblrlinkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="color:#2f4f4f;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor</span>]</span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-20389045-e369-18ef-1372-1f74d944679e"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap#2f4f4f;">Trevor Owens, CEO and Founder. Connect on LinkedIn:</span>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(45, 92, 136); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.linkedin.com/in/owenstrevor<br/span>]</span>
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