Lean Startup Machine NYC Comes To An End and A New Chapter In My Life Begins
Amazing. That’s the word that immediately comes to my mind when thinking about the Lean Startup Machine experience I’ve had over the last four days. Of course I would also say it was intense, mind-blowing, and absolutely exhausting. As one VC said to us today, we did more in two days than many startups do in two months. We created an idea, talked to potential customers, killed our idea, created a new idea and did more customer development than I’ve done in my lifetime.
I know the headline of this post may sound quite dramatic, but the impact that Lean Startup Machine has had on my life is dramatic. It has changed the way I think and inspired me, and my team, to take a bold step towards something we all truly believe in and have validated with real customer feedback.
Now it’s 11:30PM and I have had a total of about 10 hours of sleep in the last three days, yes that’s just a bit more than three hours a night. So I’m going to keep today’s post short and sweet. Tomorrow I’ll share with you many of the incredible lessons I’ve learned and ways this is absolutely impacting my everyday life.
I am very grateful to all the incredible mentors we worked with and will be doing a completely separate post talking about the impact some of these mentors had on our projects and my way of thinking about business and startups as a whole.
Okay, now it’s really time for bed, I’ll be talking more about Lean Startup Machine NYC over the next week. There’s a ton of things I want to cover and I can’t wait to share more. For now, I’ll do something I haven’t done in a long time, sleep for more than four hours in one night. Stay-tuned, much much much more to come!