Chicago Lean Startup Challenge Finals - From Idea to Revenue in 12 Weeks.

How fast can you move from idea to a viable business model? Draw inspiration from the 4 Lean Startup Challenge finalists.

12 Weeks, 85 startups, thousands of customer interviews, hundreds of pivots, and a lot of fast learning. Now it's down to four finalist, the best of the best, who all went from idea to revenue in 10 weeks. Join us on Thursday October 3rd at 1871 as they present their lessons learned and compete for the grand prize.

Check out the finalists here:

Career Cheetah (http://www.careercheetah.net/) is the fastest, most individualized process to accurately discover your best career fit. 70% of people hate their jobs. Are you one of them? Career Cheetah can help you be happier.

http://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/chicago-lean-startup-challenge-2013-introducing-career-cheetah

MailLift (http://maillift.com/) is a way for large companies to keep high touch follow-up part of the sales process. So if you get a new customer, MailLift will send them a handwritten note on your behalf with what you’d like to say, freeing up you and your staff’s time.

http://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/maillift

Scitivate (http://www.scitivate.com/) is a network for research communities. They help conference participants get to know each other before and during conferences by providing personalized recommendations based on multifacet analysis, and fun visualization gadgets that help them explore networking opportunities based on their profile and interests.

http://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/scitivate-chicago-lean-startup-challenge-2013

Spoken Art (http://spokenart.us/) is taps in to the growing trends of urban bike riding, customization and artist communities. Nobody likes to look like a traffic cone. Spoken Art helps artists make and sell reflective decals to keep riders safe and stylish on the road.

http://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/spoken-art-video

Early bird tickets $20.00 until Sunday, September 29

Regular price tickets $25.00 Monday, September 30 - October 1.

Last minute tickets $30.00 October 2- October 3

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