The Manchester Lean Startup Group is a group of entrepreneurs who learn from each other by trading stories about employing the Lean Startup principles within their startups.   Lean Startups use customer development to reduce waste, reduce time to market, increase contact with customers and avoid incorrect market assumptions. They do this by employing a collection of techniques built around maximizing validated customer learning thought fast Build/Measure/Learn iteration loops. Learn More about L …

… We started this group in order to bring together startups, entrepreneurs, investors, techies and webbies in and around Manchester. Anyone who is thinking about starting their own software or web company and wants to bounce ideas off each other and meet potential partners or investors are welcome to join this group! Our aim is to connect the various tech communities to help our members network, connect, invest and launch products in the hottest technology clusters. We plan to organise monthly mee …

Business Ideas Network is for small/medium business owners that don't have the time or money to advertise or promote themselves.   We will get together and share no-cost and low cost ways to bring your business out of the shadows and into the limelight. You and I both know that promotion = sales = cash in your pocket!   This can include online methods such as advertising on Facebook, Twitter and email. Plus off-line methods such as writing to your customers via an old-fashioned letter, vouchers, …