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 9/16

Speakers & Mentors

  • Patrick Vlaskovits
    Patrick Vlaskovits
    The Lean Entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur + author + collaborator. Founded two startups. Both dead-pooled. Co-wrote The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development. Working on second book, The Lean Entrepreneur (Wiley, Fall 2012). CMO at Drumbi, and a co-organizer of Los Angeles Lean Startup Circle. Mentor at 500 Startups.
  • Eric F. Galen
    Eric F. Galen
    HEIMANN GALEN LLP / Music180.com
    Eric is an Entertainment and Technology lawyer and entrepreneur, with over 12 years of experience advising founders, growing startups and successful businesses. He is the founder of Music180.com, and actively works with Silicon Beach investors, incubators and development firms such as Originate, Science, io/LA, Citrusbyte, Lean LA, Neon Roots and many others.
  • Matt Munson
    Matt Munson
    Instacanvas, Inc.
    Matt is a co-founder and CEO of Instacanvas, a marketplace for buying and selling Instagram photography as canvas art (the Instacanvas team rigorously practices lean startup methodology and took 2nd at LSM Palo Alto in January). Matt has founded two successful startups and one failed startup. He loves helping wannabe founders become founders.
  • Lane Halley
    Lane Halley
    Carbon Five
    Lane is a product designer at Carbon Five, a company that uses lean design and agile construction methods to create Web and mobile products. Lane's a popular teacher and speaker on the subjects of user experience (UX), Lean Startup, agile and product design. As a mentor, Lane enjoys helping teams learn about their customers and engage in creative collaboration.
  • Pete Mauro
    Pete Mauro
    Startup Partners
    Pete brings 12+ years of entrepreneurial product leadership experience to Startup Partners. He is the proud co-founder of Lean Startup LA and previously he was head of product for Savings.com, SceneTag and Warner Bros. Mobile.
  • Joe Zulli
    Joe Zulli
    Savings.com
    Joe is the CTO of Savings.com, his second (and first successful) startup. He's also a founder and co-organizer, of LeanLA, one of the biggest, and certainly the baddest, Lean Startup based meetup groups this side of anywhere.
  • Emily Scherberth
    Emily Scherberth
    Symphony PR & Marketing
    Having launched successful startups like Thismoment.com, and worked with emerging startups like YouTube, Emily will share from her 16+ years of experience and expertise in crafting compelling messages, strategic media relations campaigns and PR staffing for Lean Startup Machine attendees.
  • Hila Strong
    Hila Strong
    Keystone Solutions
    Hila brings over 7 years of experience in digital measurement. She is responsible for defining the internal web analytics methodology and execution strategy for large brands like Nike, Staples, MTV, and CNN. Hila is a frequent speaker at industry events focused on innovations within the web analytics and optimization space. She is also an instructor at UC Irvine.
  • Chris Robinson
    Chris Robinson
    The Library Corporation
    Chris is a Principle Client-side Engineer for The Library Corporation with almost 10 years of experience in the web industry. He's an advocate for Agile Development and a Lean Startup Machine alum.
  • William Hsu
    William Hsu
    MuckerLab
    Having been both a Fortune 100 executive and startup entrepreneur, William has a wealth of diverse experience to draw from. He has led product teams at eBay, Green Dot, and Spot Runner, and currently helps entrepreneurs build and launch exceptional businesses at MuckerLab, where he is a co-founder and partner.
  • Morgan Linton
    Morgan Linton
    Linton Investments
    Domain Name Investor and founder of Linton Investments. We turn great domain names into amazing brands and help startups acquire the domains of their dreams!
  • Paige Craig
    Paige Craig
    A former Marine, Intelligence Consultant, and founder of defense companies, Paige is a man who needs little introduction to anyone in the startup community. He is an angel investor, board member, and advisor to many startups.
  • Daina Burnes
    Daina Burnes
    Fashion Metric
    Engineer. Scientist. Entrepreneur. Daina is co-Founder and CEO at Fashion Metric - the winning team from LSM LA in June and finalist at AngelHack in July. Fashion Metric applies Lean Startup methodologies in developing an online solution for men to purchase shirts that actually fit their body-type.
  • Crystal Ehrlich
    Crystal Ehrlich
    The Los Angeles User Experience Meetup
    Crystal has a decade-long background in visual design and user experience, runs the Los Angeles User Experience Meetup group (the largest UX Meetup in the US) and is on the Advisory Board of California State Fullerton Extended Education's User Experience and Usability Certificate Program.
  • Todd Emaus
    Todd Emaus
    Instacanvas, Inc.
    Todd is the product lead at Instacanvas, a marketplace for social photography and art. He's a firm believer in lean startup principles and is always happy to help other startups learn and grow faster.
  • Lee Munroe
    Lee Munroe
    Kareo
    Lee currently leads UX Design at Kareo. He spends his days talking to users, prototyping, designing interfaces and writing beautiful HTML and CSS. Often found hacking together Rails apps.

The Organizers

  • Edlin Choi
    Edlin Choi
    Lean Startup Machine
    Edlin is passionate about the Lean Startup methodology and growing this international movement. He is the creator of the Morning Worm, an iPhone alarm app with an odd approach to waking you up, and is hellbent on finding a new problem to solve using Lean Startup priniciples.
  • Ryan MacCarrigan
    Ryan MacCarrigan
    Lean Startup Machine
  • Los Angeles
    Los Angeles
    Lean Startup Machine

What Our Alumni Say

Our Awesome Partners

  • Since 2010 LeanLA has helped Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs build successful businesses by learning and practicing Lean Startup techniques.
  • Lean UX is a principle-driven approach for designing startup products. With Lean UX, teams collaborate better, make faster decisions, and act decisively with more confidence.
  • Silicon Beach Marketing was founded to help technology startups position themselves in the marketplace and communicate their unique brand message through innovative marketing programs, quality content, and strategic partnerships.
  • Women 2.0 is a media company offering content, community and conferences for aspiring and current women innovators in technology. Our mission is to increase the number of female founders of technology startups with inspiration, information and education through our platform.
  • CoFoundersLab is a startup focused on bringing together entrepreneurs with the aim of launching a Startup together. We do this matchmaking for entrepreneurs through in-person Meetups and through our online matching service.
  • Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. A PHP engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with his vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day... We're building this community.
  • A San Fernando Valley specific group for local entrepreneurs, startups, non profits, small businesses, investors, and anyone who's ever had a great idea and can benefit from the local community by sharing. SFVStartup welcomes anything tech related or that improve lives in general.

Learn to build what customers want.