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 June 8

Speakers & Mentors

  • Eric Ries (Skype Q&A session)
    Eric Ries (Skype Q&A session)
    The Lean Startup
    Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2010, he became an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School.
  • Rob Fitzpatrick
    Rob Fitzpatrick
    Startup Toolkit
    Rob is a tech entrepreneur who moved his first company to London from the valley. He has built products used globally by brands like MTV and Sony and by top universities like UCL and has raised funding in both the US & UK. He blogs about learning (and doing) entrepreneurship at http://thestartuptoolkit.com and is working with NYC’s General Assembly to bring their highly effective startup co-working space and educational programs to the UK.
  • Ian Collingwood
    Ian Collingwood
    BraveNewTalent
    I specialise in splicing Design Thinking into the DNA of organisations – startups, agencies, departments and enterprises. I help clients to build the human, technical and process infrastructure and co-develop a strategy that places great user experience at the heart of the organisation's future growth.
  • Kees van Nunen
    Kees van Nunen
    SNTMNT
    Co-founder @SNTMNT & Organizer @LeanRotterdam | Entrepreneur, Concept Developer & Startup Coach | #lean, #leanstartup, #bmg, #custdev
  • Timo Mulder
    Timo Mulder
    ValueFirst
    Founder at ValueFirst. Experienced Scrum Master & Implemented the Lean Startup Methodology within ABN AMRO Dialogues Incubator. (Biggest Dutch Bank)
  • Raymond Hannes
    Raymond Hannes
    MyDivvi
  • Jeroen van Duffelen
    Jeroen van Duffelen
    Nodejitsu
  • Martin Voorzanger
    Martin Voorzanger
    Toogethr
    Martin has worked for companies including IBM, LBi, and TomTom. He is currently iterating his startup Toogethr (a social ridesharing service) towards product/market fit. He also serves as a mentor at Startup Bootcamp Amsterdam.
  • Vincent van Leeuwen
    Vincent van Leeuwen
    SNTMNT
  • Dominiek ter Heide
    Dominiek ter Heide
    Bottlenose
    Dominiek ter Heide is the CTO and co-founder of Bottlenose.com, the smartest social media dashboard for professionals and influencers. Bottlenose is a U.S. headquartered startup with its development team located in Amsterdam. Prior to Bottlenose, Dominiek spend several years in Japan serving as CTO for iKnow, a Japanese e-learning web platform. When not incubating social and semantic web products, Dominiek enjoys surfing at the beach and writing algorithms.
  • Rune Theill
    Rune Theill
    Rockstart
  • Don Ginsel
    Don Ginsel
    Principe Management
    Because of his drive to nurture more new technologies, Don chose to go about on his own, providing strategic and financing consultancy and interim management to starting companies and new technologies.
  • Robbert van Geldrop
    Robbert van Geldrop
    BackupAgent
    Founder and CTO BackupAgent. Entrepreneur, software developer, evangelist of Lean Startup since 2010 and organizer of Dutch Lean Startup meetups. Excellent chess player, types using Dvorak keyboard layout.
  • Frits Oukes
    Frits Oukes
    RedMerito
    Founder of RedMerito, experienced in customer development and testing innovative concepts. Currently he is working on the introduction of the lean startup concepts in corporates and writing the publication called ‘MINDSHIFT’.
  • Bob Jansen
    Bob Jansen
    Firmhouse
  • Marc Köhlbrugge
    Marc Köhlbrugge
    Beta List
    Former 'idea-guy' turned entrepreneur that actually gets things done. Marc has (co-)founded PressDoc (press releases optimized for social media), *openmargin (a community within every ebook), and Beta List (helps early-stage startups get traction).
  • Thomas Blekman
    Thomas Blekman
    Effectuation Intelligence Netherlands
  • Patrick de Zeeuw
    Patrick de Zeeuw
    Startup Bootcamp Amsterdam
    Built Endemol companies for years. Co-founder 3Circles Media. Co-founder Startupbootcamp Amsterdam & Ex-snowboard professional.
  • Arthur Tolsma
    Arthur Tolsma
    Rotterdam Internet Valley
  • Steve Schlafman
    Steve Schlafman
    Lerer Ventures
    VC @LererVentures. Survived @stickybits to @turntablefm pivot. Worked for @Patriots & @Microsoft too. Love family, great design, new media, music, and food.
  • Ryan MacCarrigan
    Ryan MacCarrigan
    Lean Startup Machine
    Ryan has organized and hosted Lean Startup Machine workshops in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, London and beyond. Prior to LSM, he oversaw marketing at several NY-based technology startups. He is a co-organizer of the NYC Lean Startup Meetup and the host of Ignite: Lean Startup at Pivotal Labs. He holds a dual B.A. degree from Columbia University.

The Organizers

  • Yuri van Geest
    Yuri van Geest
  • Leon Pals
    Leon Pals
    Marketing, branding and customer development professional that loves Tumblr and considers himself a futuristic minimalist who enjoys good food and drinks and combines those passions with @Appatize.
  • Stefanos Karakasis
    Stefanos Karakasis
    Forward thinking Growth Hacker for Startups. Does Startup Marketing for the Rockstart Accelerator. Collects @FillingPieces & Stories on Samurai. Became curator of Startup Digest Amsterdam because he believes in building startup communities.
  • Niek van der Voort
    Niek van der Voort
  • Hannah Vera van Drunen
    Hannah Vera van Drunen
  • Deniz Arslan
    Deniz Arslan
  • Michiel Schuurman
    Michiel Schuurman
  • Rob Kramer
    Rob Kramer
    Information professional with a developing interest and expertise on lean accounting for tech, web and sustainability entrepreneurs. Enjoys life in general, and even more when riding waves or playing the guitar.

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