Diane Bailey is an expert Startup Lifer and Accelerator. She wears many hats including Head of Accelerator Growth & Colorado Director at Founder Institute, Investor, and Community Builder. Founder Institute is The World’s Largest Pre-Seed Accelerator. They specialize in working with early-stage companies and help turn ideas into fundable startups. Diane is also a successful entrepreneur. In this episode, one of the things she talks about is the Lean Startup Model. This involves, creating something, testing, and then measuring the idea. The findings and learnings are then used to create a better model. This is useful for founders to do before sending their product out in the market. To find out whether the product is really needed in the market. The lean startup model ensures that the startup provides value by meeting a need in the market.