Lean Startup Machine NYC: April 12 – 14, 2013
/Lean Startup Machine is a movement aimed to educate entrepreneurs and industry professionals alike on how to build products that people actually want. Using Lean Startup methodology, LSM is a 3-day workshop where 50 people gather, pitch ideas for a product and teams form around those pitches. At the end of the weekend, winning teams are chosen based on how well each team adhered to the process and how they were able to handle change throughout the journey. Teams are not judged on how marketable or creative a product idea is. Although many people who attend the workshop were entrepreneurs, I participated interested in the methodology and how it can be applied in enterprise situations. Also, LSM is NOT a hackathon. I was actually surprised to see that a majority of the participants were not developers but come from another discipline within tech or even different industries.
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