How to Start a successful business in 3 days

People of the startup nation, these are exciting times. Very soon into the future,
there would be a higher percentage of people that would have had their confidence level for startup-building increased and would be sure they can avoid common pitfalls that causes failure in earlier staged startups.

Part of this reality would be enabled by applying principles based on a quite radical approach to building startups.
These principles are the Lean Startup principles.

Lean Startup Machine is organising a first lean startup workshop in Lagos soon.
Dates and other details to be announced soon.

The LSM workshop is a hands-on, 3 days workshop that teaches
entrepreneurs the Lean Startup methodologies made famous in The Lean Startup Book by Eric Ries.

This intensive 3-day paid workshop provides participants with a valuable framework of tools, techniques and resources designed to help early-stage companies startups and businesses identify key customers and iterate their products quickly .

Truth be told

We all know startups face incredibly difficult odds, especially in Nigeria and the vast majority of them will fail.
While lean startup methodologies are not a safeguard against failure, they do provide a foundation for real, measurable improvement.

So, rather than you fail (on a large scale) after months or years of investing in your idea, this workshop  can help you fail fast in 3 days and re-strategize (pivot) as required. That’s valuable very valuable.

Lean Startup Machine will change the way you view entrepreneurship forever — for the better.

Who is this event for?

Any startup team, founder, entrepreneur, product developer, idea person, App developers e.t c that is in search of building something that people want, and doing this without wasting resources.

It’s interesting to know that you do not require coding skills or any high technical skill.

It is out to address the most critical part of business. This is more like a CustDevthon (Fancy word for Customer development hackathon) .

Unlike  regular hackathons, this 3 day workshop tackles the process of building   businesses and startups from the customer level, rather than a solution level-which is a more viable approach to startup building.

A brief of what to expect

Participants get the chance to pitch ideas to mentors and other participants. They get to develop these ideas over the weekend

·         You learn how to design experiments to validate your ideas.
·         Practice customer discovery
·         Research your target market
·         Interact with real customers through customer development
·         Test your assumptions in iterations
·         Learn how to avoid confirmation bias
·         Understand your business model
·         Iterate and pivot when necessary
·         Compete with other teams to become winner of the event.

Full Schedule of the event would be released later.

Plus this comes with opportunities to network and start valuable business relationships with mentors who are also industry leaders. Your network is your net worth, really.