Ticket includes a pre-order of Eric Ries' book The Lean Startup, and a copy of The Entrepreneurs's Guide to Customer Development. A $74 value!

We keep our event incredibly intimate and only allow 50 participants to ensure quality mentoring.

UPDATE: Early-bird tickets are sold out, and the price increases to $150 the final week of sales (01/9/2010). Fewer than 25 tickets are left at the time of writing this!

Lean Startup Machine is a weekend-long startup competition conforming to Lean Startup principles, a method of using customer feedback to rapidly iterate your product to reach product/market fit. It's sort of a CustDev-athon where participants get out of the building and put together a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) over a weekend.

On Friday evening, the event commences with networking, speakers and pitches. Participants then select ideas and form teams to work on their project over the weekend. On Sunday, teams pitch their business and Minimum Viable Product to a panel of well-known entrepreneurs for cash and mentoring.

SPEAKERS

Eric Ries, Keynote address

Eric is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups. 
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Hiten Shah

Hiten started on the Internet by founding a Internet marketing consultancy, ACS. He then went on to createCrazy Egg, an analytics tool that visualizes the user experience on a website. Now with KISSmetrics he is working on helping people make better business decisions starting with making tracking of business metrics and conversion funnels much simpler and easier to understand. Hiten is passionate about helping other entrepreneurs and startup people.

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Brant Cooper

As co-author of the new book The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development, Brant is a leading advocate of the Lean Startup movement. He has over 17 years of success bringing high tech products to market, directing the strategy, design, and launch of key technologies.

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Patrick Vlaskovits

As co-author of the new book The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development, Patrick is a leading advocate of the Lean Startup movement. He holds Master's in Economics from UC Santa Barbara and he is an organizer at Twiistup and at the Los Angeles Lean Startup Circle.

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For more details, vist http://sf.theleanstartupmachine.com

***All tickets sales are final and non-refundable. ***