NEXT Seattle 12/2012

Startup Weekend is joining forces with Steve Blank and Udacity to bring you some the world s most effective experiential entrepreneurship curriculum - Steve s Lean Launch Pad curriculum (as taught at Stanford, Berkley, and Columbia) - customized and packaged into a 3-week in-person follow-on course to Startup Weekend.
Is NEXT Right for YOU?
Listen to what Eric Koester of Zaarly has to say.
NEXT 3-week long, in-person course which provides real world, hands-on learning on what it s like to actually… Show more start a scalable company. This is not a class about how to write a business plan. It s not an exercise on how smart you are in a classroom, or how well you use the research library to size markets. And the end result is not a PowerPoint slide deck for a VC presentation. This is a practical class essentially a lab, not a theory or book * class - for teams of 2+ co-founders. Similar to Startup Weekend, NEXT creates an entrepreneurial experience with all of the pressures and demands of the real world in an early stage startup. Teams will be getting their hands dirty talking to customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how a customer-driven startup actually works - all aimed towards answering the question of how to turn a great idea into a great company. Co-founders will learn how practically apply business modelling to their company, and customer development to get out of the classroom to effectively test whether/how customers would use your product.
How does it work?
NEXT takes a flipped classroom style of learning, where teams are expected to watch lectures and complete assignments between classes, while classtime itself takes a Facilitator-driven approach to sharing learnings and questioning results. You'll do real work on your project, taking care to follow the lecture guidance, then get feedback on your approach as you present every week.
Kickoff: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 -- 6-9 pm
Workshop 1: Saturday, December 1, 2012 - 10 am to 1 pm
Workshop 2: Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 6-9 pm
Workday: Saturday, December 8, 2012 - 10 am to 1 pm
Workshop 3: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 6-9 pm
Lessons Learned Presentations: Saturday, December 15, 2012 - 10 am to 1 pm
We'll be meeting in the basement of Founder's Coop: The Easy. You've been there before, right?
Need more info? Detailed agenda here . Don't hesitate to contact us, or hit swnext.org .
You do not need to have attended a Startup Weekend event to attend this course. You must, however, be part of a team of at least two people working on a startup or startup idea.

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