About Lean Startup Machine

Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use Customer Development and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service.

Bring your team, or come alone and new teams will form on Friday night.

Registration deadline 2/16

Speakers & Mentors

  • David Skok
    David Skok
    Matrix Partners
    David is a 5x serial entrepreneur turned VC. He currently is a General Partner at Matrix Partners, and he is the author of forEntrepeneurs blog.
  • Kevin Bolen
    Kevin Bolen
    Innosight
  • Brant Cooper
    Brant Cooper
    Market By Numbers
  • Kristy Tillman
    Kristy Tillman
    IDEO
  • Shaun Johnson
    Shaun Johnson
    Boston Startup School
  • Shilpa Pandya
    Shilpa Pandya
    HubSpot
  • Carl Seglem
    Carl Seglem
    Kibits Corp.
  • James O'connor
    James O'connor
    Lean Startup Challenge
  • JP Bonner
    JP Bonner
    Testive
    Dave is the founder of Outovate, a crowdsourcing platform for consumer product innovation. He won Lean Startup Machine NYC in October 2011 with Outovate by getting a letter of intent from Procter & Gamble.
  • Matt Smith
    Matt Smith
    Shutterstock
  • Bob Cavezza
    Bob Cavezza
    River Insight
  • David Floyd
    David Floyd
    Constant Contact
  • Brendan Kohler
    Brendan Kohler
    Flodr
  • Dave Cole
    Dave Cole
    CrowdTap

The Organizers

  • Rob Caucci
    Rob Caucci
    SpaceSplitter
    Rob loves getting out of the building on cool, sunny days, interacting with potential customers he comes across, and better understanding how he can create value for them by solving their problems.
  • Trevor Owens
    Trevor Owens
    Lean Startup Machine

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Learn to build what customers want.