How technology and Minimum Viable Product tests can (and can’t) help a fashion company succeed. By Julia Kastner (Founder & CEO, Eva & Paul) My final year at Harvard Business School, just weeks before graduation, I got into a debate with Eric Reis, author of The Lean Startup, about whether or not I could make [...]
Posts Tagged "Eric Ries"
Seeking Women To Host Livestream Simulcasts For The Lean Startup Conference
October 24, 2012 – 7:00 am
If you’re interested in bringing people together to learn from innovators who’ll be sharing lessons for profitably practicing Lean Startup methods within all kinds of organizations, we hope you’ll consider hosting an event. By Sarah Milstein (Co-Host, The Lean Startup Conference) As co-host of The Lean Startup Conference (December 3-4, 2012 in San Francisco), I’ve [...]
Lean Startup Conference: Seeking Speakers
August 20, 2012 – 5:16 pm
We’re seeking people who can deliver great talks, whether they’ve ever spoken at a conference before. By Eric Ries & Sarah Milstein (Co-Hosts, The Lean Startup Conference) Last week, we announced the date and venue for The Lean Startup Conference on December 3-4, 2012 in San Francisco. Now we’re starting to reach out to speakers. [...]
How To Make Tiny Changes For Greater Career Success
August 20, 2012 – 9:00 am
What small adjustment or change could you or do you want to make in your personal in professional life? By Rania Anderson (Co-Founder, Women’s Capital Connection) The idiom “Put your best foot forward” generally refers to making a great impression. But, watching Aries Merritt — the 2012 U.S. Olympic gold medalist in the 110 meter [...]
Pivoting: It Just Keeps Getting Better (And Better And Better…)
July 17, 2012 – 5:00 am
Editor’s note: Jessica Bishop was a 2010 PITCH finalist – Apply for the PITCH NYC Startup Competition by August 31, 2012 for your chance to present onstage in November at our conference. By Jessica Bishop (Founder, Klink Mobile) Feeling low on energy working on your startup? Maybe you just need to move in a new [...]
4 Tips For Overcoming “Inspiration Overload” (Moving Forward)
March 6, 2012 – 12:19 pm
By Anjali Tuljapurkar Cameron (Founder & CEO, TripLark) Yes, you read it right. Inspiration overload. It happens to many new entrepreneurs. Knowing we’ll get nowhere by sitting alone at home, we attend every networking event and conference in the vicinity. Add blogs, books and business columns – and your brain is deluged with an endless [...]
Penelope Trunk’s Skewed Perceptions Of The World, Part 2
December 11, 2011 – 1:45 pm
By Anna Billstrom (Developer, Momentus Media) Editor’s note: Founder and CEO of Lark, Julia Hu’s editorial on pitching for venture capital as a woman is an excellent read on women starting companies and raising VC. As usual, Penelope Trunk is fanning the flames and creating controversy (Part 1 is here). Her latest is in TechCrunch, [...]
Startup Weekend: The Business Model Resource Guide
December 6, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Renee DiResta (Associate, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures) I’ve said before — Startup Weekends are a lot of fun. Participants come together as a team, find a compelling idea, define and attempt to implement a minimum viable product, and come up with a plan to take the idea to market, all within 54 hours. So far, [...]
Racism and Meritocracy
November 19, 2011 – 6:00 pm
By Eric Ries (Contributing Writer, TechCrunch) Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you can’t have missed the recent dust-up over race and Silicon Valley. Like almost every discussion of diversity and meritocracy in this town, it turned ugly fast. One side says: “All I see is white men. Therefore, people like Michael Arrington must [...]
Partner event: Eric Ries’ Lean Startup Book Launch (Bulk Deals)
September 14, 2011 – 6:30 am
This is a big week for startups. Eric Ries’s book “The Lean Startup” launches today. As part of his book launch, there is a huge promotion on his blog. The prizes are ridiculous and come from Amazon AWS, KissMetrics, Assistly, Pivotal Tracker, etc. For example, buy 5 books for $96 to over $2,200 more in [...]
