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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. Is it Whole Foods or is it 7-Eleven. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Why Online Video Just Took One More Big Step to Legitimacy

Both Sides of the Table

Another major hire was Ryan Lissack who joined as CTO. Ryan was not only a senior engineer at Salesforce.com (he ran mobile and also ran content management) but was also my cofounder at Koral and lead architect at BuildOnline. Ynon started as shareholder, board member & advisor and switches to full-time executive.

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Part 2 of Episode 6 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Steve Weinstein and Venk Shukla

Steve Blank

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla has worked in numerous early-stage companies as an executive, investor, board member, or advisor.

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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over the next four years I worked closely with Aaron and his cofounders as LivingSocial rode out the ups and down of the local daily-deals space. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. He became an in-demand advisor and individual investor in other startups , sharing the lessons learned through his own founder journey.

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I’m Exited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Over the next four years I worked closely with Aaron and his cofounders as LivingSocial rode out the ups and down of the local daily-deals space. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. He became an in-demand advisor and individual investor in other startups , sharing the lessons learned through his own founder journey.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Pierce Burnette knows the meaning of “humble beginnings” and has combined her intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional intelligence (EQ), entrepreneurial spirit, and technical knowledge to forge successful careers in engineering, information technology, and education. Joe Beard joined Perot Jain as a Partner in 2015.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups.