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 11/6

Speakers & Mentors

  • David Culver
    David Culver
    VentureSHOT Entrepreneur Center & Business Incubator
    David is the Chief Collaboration Instigator @ VentureSHOT and helps mentor entrepreneurs and companies to grow their businesses and get funded. David is a Co-Founder of eight companies and his team also hosts the Funding Feeding Frenzy event series.
  • Nick Tippmann
    Nick Tippmann
    Impulcity
  • Marcy Capron
    Marcy Capron
    Polymathic/Junto
    Marcy is the CEO of Polymathic. Polymathic uses its toolkit called Junto, an online environment for building startups within an open feedback loop, to make MVPs accessible for nontechnical entrepreneurs.
  • Amanda Chocko
    Amanda Chocko
    Start Garden
    Amanda is the program director at the Michigan seed venture firm, Start Garden and has over 15 years of startup experience. She has organized 2 sold out Michigan Lean Startup Conferences and started the Michigan Lean Startup Circle.
  • Joe Miller
    Joe Miller
    Chicago Lean Startup Challenge
  • Craig Wirkus
    Craig Wirkus
    Spigit
  • Katie Sowa
    Katie Sowa
    Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization
  • Neal Sales-Griffin
    Neal Sales-Griffin
    Code Academy
  • Ted Gonder
    Ted Gonder
    MoneyThink
  • Eli Gratz
    Eli Gratz
    walk.by
  • Sarah Gray
    Sarah Gray
    Mercury App

The Organizers

  • Obi Mbanefo
    Obi Mbanefo
    Lean Startup Machine

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