Starting Lean - How to Find Out If Your Business Idea Has Potential in Days and Not Years Trevor Owens is an author and entrepreneur. He's the CEO & Co-Founder of Lean Venture Partners, Mentor at Chinaccelerator, Keynote speaker, and CEO & Founder of Javelin, creators of the global Lean Startup Machine workshop series that has trained tens of thousands of startup founders and innovators from Google, GE, News Corp, Intuit, and others, start new businesses around the world. In his bestselling book, The Lean Enterprise (published by Wiley), Owens details new approaches for corporations to structure innovation teams and bring new products to market. Owens's work has been featured in national media outlets including Forbes, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Business Insider, Mashable, and others. About the event Startups are not small versions of big companies. Yet for the last 30 years, we have tried to apply the management practices used in big companies to the process of developing new products and services. Finally today, we have a new form of management. Learn the principles of the Lean process from the author of The Lean Enterprise and creator of the international phenomenon, Lean Startup Machine. Join us for our next Fireside chat with Trevor Owens - CEO & (co)founder of Lean Venture Partners, hosted by Florian Bohnert - Head of Global Partnerships at Mobike and Startup-Grind-Rockstar. Learn how your Startup can get monthly revenues up from $0 to $5,000 in Eight Weeks, about the dark art of raising money, and how large corporations can innovate like startups. About Lean Venture Partners Lean Venture Partners offers an eight weeks pre-Accelerator program. It is an intensive program to validate your market, launch MVPs, and generate revenue. The program is a combined effort of Lean Venture partners and Chinaccelerator. The hardest part of building a startup is the first mile. Focusing on early revenue can dramatically increase the odds a startup will succeed; it gives your team a clear goal to achieve and the cash you may need to survive in the future. You can find out more about the program here: Please note 1. We also have Startup Pitches at every event. If you are a founder/co-founder interested in introducing your startup/idea to our audience. (One free ticket will be available for each pitching team) 2. If you are a founder/co-founder of a startup, you can attend the event for free. You must be able to proof that you have a registered Startup and you will get the confirmation at least two days in advance of the event. We have limited free tickets and pitching slots for every event and you can use the following link to register.
Thursday, April 26, 2018
10:30 AM – 2:00 PM UTC
10:30 AM | Registration |
11:00 AM | Introduction of Startup Grind & Quickfire Pitches |
11:15 AM | Introduction of Lean Venture Partners |
11:30 AM | Fireside Chat with Trevor Owens and Florian Bohnert |
12:30 PM | Networking |