#leankc

This EVENT coming to Kansas City in Nov is your answer to getting to market with speed!  Grab your Ticket Now while there is still time.  Space is limited.

WANT TO HAVE FUN? GO TO A ROYALS GAME. WANT TO LEArN? Join us @KauffmanLabs.  (Ticket prices increase $5 after each sale, but are 100% refundable - in other words, buy one now, hold your spot, you have nothing to lose:) 30% or more of each sale goes back to a KC entrepreneur. Thanks to the continued generous support of Kauffman Labs, free mentoring on your idea as needed from 10 of the best minds in this space, from the time you buy a ticket until the event in November. You must be willing to do 10 customer interviews. The first 20 people to do 10 interviews and share the results with the group (via a blog post) will be invited to attend a private 2 day workshop where we apply (rather than talk about) all of the things we talk about at this event.  If you want to bring a workshop in house or want help designing an experiment to test the market for your idea, let us know and we can create tailor made experiments to prove whether customers will buy your product before you write a line of code.     Join Adam Berk and several other KC superstars to be confirmed and mentioned shortly at 6:00PM on Friday NIGHT   for a highly interactive pitch night, with a twist! Instead of pitching your idea or solution, (or your total addressable market, or your five revenue sources) you’ll pitch the problem you’re solving and the customer / beneficiary you’re solving it for. That’s right, NO SOLUTIONS. Taking a cue from the Socratic Method, this all-engaging, progressive learning process will rile you up while making you think about your idea in a different way. The participants are the audience, the pitchers are the participants, and the audience is the judge. Feedback from the Peanut Gallery, please!As dreamers, change makers and entrepreneurs, it is easy to get inspired by the next big idea and to want to jump right into building it. All too often, we’re driven by our idea for a solution and don’t take pause to do due diligence and really understand the problem we’re solving, and for whom. Does your solution address a real problem experienced by real people? Our People Problem Pitch event will guide you through the process of distilling your pitch to the essentials-- problem and customer. This process is informed by Lean Startup methodologies, but will be far from dogmatic and far from traditional. Learning as we go, the the audience/participants will be taking over as the coaches- taking the words from our facilitators mouths and shouting out feedback that moves the presenter closer to the problem/customer at hand, thus presenting the first hypothesis to test.   If you are interested in sticking around for the following two days and running experiments, get in touch with us.  We have room for 5 more teams. We are accepting applications to be on a team, you can pay (alot) to have teams work on your idea.  Follow the conversation on Twitter!   | @adamberk | @dianakander | @KauffmanLabs SCHEDULE 6:00-6:30  - Doors Open, Arrive 6:30-8:00  - Pitch & Feedback 8:00-8:30  - Intro and Recap + Q & A "Entreprenurial Science" 830-10 - Experiment design, customer validation and acquisition      FACILITATED  BY A lean entrepreneur and lean teacher, Adam Berk (@adamberk) travels the world mentoring, teaching, consulting and coaching teams and individuals at places like KauffmanLabs, TechPeaks, Bizdom, TurkishWIN, FastForward Ramallah, AOL, ESPN, NEWSCORP, AMEX. He teaches start-up entrepreneurs and enterprise innovators how to apply Lean Startup methodologies in order to minimize waste, reduce risk, and ultimately succeed more quickly. In so doing, he helps people design and test strategies for customer development by challenging them to think of the problem first and the solution second. Adam had built his first start-up backwards and used the methods he has been teaching to build his second start-up forwards. Whereas, he had minimal revenue from neighborrow for the first 5 years, he had revenue from photogether on day one. Not the first day he launched, the first day he started working on it. (Guess which one was lean) Our recent speaking and teaching events: Trento, Italy April, 14 Belgrade, Serbia April 14 St Louis, May 14  NYC (Girl Scouts), July Miami, September 14 Istanbul, September 14 Take 50% off this ticket and earn 50% of sales from every class we teach and workshop we run around the world, This event is for... EVERYONE (just kidding) early stage founders who want to embrace the notion of hypothesis driven start-ups (Lean). If you want to learn the importance of solving a problem for a customer and understanding how to run experiments to avoid building a product with no demand, please join us. Students who are interested in entrepreneurship    On site Facilitator: Adam Berk     Adam built his first start-up backwards and used the methods he has been teaching to build his second start-up forwards. He had minimal revenue from neighborrow in 5 years and revenue from photogether the first day. Not the first day it launched, the first day he started working on it. Guess which one was lean. Adam travels the world mentoring, teaching, consulting and coaching teams and individuals. He has been to nearly 100 countries and has worked with entrepreneurs in Istanbul, Paris, Belgrade, Kansas City, Tel Aviv, Trento, Johannusberg, Mumbai, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Detroit, Montreal and more working with KauffmanLabs, TechPeaks, Bizdom, TurkishWIN, FastForward Ramallah, AOL, ESPN, NEWSCORP, AMEX and others who don't want their competition to know just how valuable it can be to run the types of experiments he teaches. With additional support designing and running your experiments from... Diana Kander, Melissa Perri, Sam Hysell, Bek Abdullayev and more.  Diana Kander -  Diana is a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. She is also the founder of KR Legal Management, which was acquired in 2013. Diana authored the All In Startup, a business novel that outlines a simple process entrepreneurs and existing companies can use to launch new initiatives. She has a passion for teaching customer development techniques to entrepreneurs.   Melissa Perri is a Product Development and Process consultant. She founded ProdUX Labs (produxlabs.com) to help teams create more successful products. Melissa draws from her past experiences of incorporating new innovation processes into product development teams to help her clients find the best processes for their unique companies. She is also a global speaker on Lean Product Management and a startup mentor.   Before starting ProdUX Labs, Melissa founded a startup in Italy, worked at several startups in NYC as a Product Manager and UX Designer, and, once upon a time, worked as a developer in an investment bank. She is a curriculum fellow at General Assembly, writing the new Product Management course, and runs workshops on UX and Lean for companies and startup accelerators.   Bek Abdullayev - Bek is an entrepreneur and a community activist. Bek has founded Super Dispatch to eliminate paperwork in the logistics industry. Bek runs the Lean Startup Meetup in Kansas City and consults with many startups on implementing Lean methodology to solve their problems.  As a community activist, Bek founded Startup Games to build strong entrepreneurship communities through competitive events. Startup Games has been featured at SXSWi, StartupBus and 1WeekKC.  His journey as an entrepreneur started as a kid testing the waters of capitalism in the Soviet Union.

Thanks to all of our mentors this weekend! We couldn't have had this much success identifying our target market and getting ready for launch without it.

The test environment for #LeanKC sponsered by @KauffmanLabs and @leanstartupmachine. Thanks for a phenomenal weekend of learning, networking, and growth.