Purpose: To learn and implement Steve Blank's customer discovery and customer validation business model. The goal is to find a repeatable, scalable business model by the end of the 8 weeks. We will get out of the building during the week to speak with customers, partners, and competitors. We will follow his syllabus as taught at Stanford School of Engineering 2012. Who: Entrepreneurs: Apply as groups of 2 - 4 or individuals. We are capping it at 40 people, or 10 teams. Materials: "The Startup Ow …

This group is for Long Island, NY area startup entrepreneurs who are interested in following and developing thier businesses around the principles of Lean Startup. Learn to develop a customer centered business in a disciplined, iterative, and measured way. The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries

This group is for anyone interested in the actionable applications of Lean UX en route to building products customer's love. Once a customer has come across your product, your UX is the make or break backbone of your business. Make it awesome, Make it Lean!

Attention brewers, bakers, butchers, canners, chefs and all other food industry innovators! The goal of this group is to raise the success rate of food entrepreneurs. We want you to "fail less". Not starting a company? That's OK, this group will also equip people at large food companies with the tools to innovate. We will explore the application of Lean Startup (Eric Ries) and Customer Development (Steve Blank) methods from the tech world to food industry startups. In other words, we'll learn ho …

The Salon is for designers, lean practitioners, product managers, engineers, leadership, and entrepreneurs to gather together, hear from people tackling real-world problems in their day-to-day work, the strategies and tactics they are employing, as well as to have open and frank discussions of the challenges implementing lean strategies and design in organizations large and small to create better customer experiences.