Silicon Valley was born  in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. From the point of view of scientists and engineers in a university lab, too often entrepreneurship in all its VC-driven glory – income statements, balance sheets, business plans, revenue models, 5-year forecasts, etc. Until today. Join us. MORE >>

At 11:45am I'll be honored to share the stage with two great entrepreneurs: Introducing The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries with case studies, Intuit’s Scott Cook and Instagram’s Kevin Systrom And in the evening, the book launch party is also part of Disrupt. The price of the ticket also includes a copy of Eric's book The Lean Startup. MORE >>

It was an exercise in reverse engineering. Some product managers might be more technical, working on feature requirements and interfacing with the engineering team, while others might be more like brand managers who are the GM of their brands. I run into a lot of people trying to switch careers and join a startup. MORE >>

The folks at Gemini, a VC firm, organized an evening with their portfolio CEOs to discuss lean analytics for startups. Community sentiment is a combination of search engines and natural language processing. Lean analytics Too often, the web data shared at board meetings doesn’t match the business plan. Sorry about that. MORE >>

Services Marketing Help Downloads Contact Log In 5th Anti-Lean Startup Archetype – We Already Do It By brantcooper , September 27, 2009 1:08 am I recently blogged about 4 anti-lean startup archetypes. If you build-it, they will come Engineers – Our product rocks, therefore we win. emphasis mine) If only it were true! MORE >>