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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. The evening's slate: 20 Ways to Not Build Stuff Cindy Alvarez. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

The Entrepreneurial Mind

One year ago today I blogged about a new microfund here in Nashville called Jumpstart Foundry. Program Content : "Lean Startup / Customer Development in practice. We will build Nashville one small group at a time over the next 5-10 years. You do not have to be from Nashville or intend to keep the business in Nashville.