April 23, 2010 11:30 AM - 71 attended

Startup Lessons Learned - Boston (Simulcast)

Cambridge Innovation Center, Training Conference Room 5th Flr (map)

Selected By: Matthew Mamet

Startup Lessons Learned is the first event designed to unite those interested in what it takes to succeed in building a lean startup. The goal for this event is to give practitioners and students of the lean startup methodology the opportunity to hear insights from leaders in embracing and deploying the core principles of the lean startup methodology. The day-long event will feature a mix of panels and talks focused on the key challenges and issues that technical and market-facing people at startups need to understand in order to succeed in building successful lean startups.

Confirmed Speakers and Participating Mentors:


  • Eric Ries, The Lean Startup (@ericries)
  • Kent Beck, Three Rivers Institute (@kentbeck)
  • Steve Blank (@sgblank)
  • Randy Komisar, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  • Andrew Chen, Futuristic Play (@andrew_chen)
  • David Weekly, PB Works (@dweekly)
  • Hiten Shah, KISSmetrics (@hnshah)
  • Cindy Alvarez, KISSmetrics (@cindyalvarez)
  • Ethan Bloch, Flowtown (@ebloch)
  • Timothy Fitz, IMVU (@TimohtyFitz)
  • Drew Houston, Dropbox (@drewhouston)
  • Ash Maurya, WiredReach (@ashmaurya)
  • Dave McClure (@davemcclure)
  • Sean Ellis (@seanellis)
  • Laura Klein
  • Damon Horowitz, Aardvark / Google
  • Max Ventilla, Aardvark / Google (@ventilla)
  • Brant Cooper (@brantcooper)
  • Clara Shih, Hearsay Labs (@clarashih)
  • Manuel Rosso (@manuelrosso)
  • Dan Martell, Flowtown (@danmartell)
  • Brett Durrett, IMVU
  • James Birchler, IMVU

Agenda (times are PDT!)
8 AM - 9:20 Registration
9:20 - 9:30 AM Welcome
*Eric Ries, Host, Startup Lessons Learned

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Build Keynote
*Speaker to be announced

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Continuous Deployment Case Study: WiredReach
*Ash Maruya, WiredReach

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Agile Development Case Study: Grockit
*Farb Nivi, Grockit

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Case Study: "But Does it Scale?"
* Tim Fitz, James Birchler, and Brett Durrett, IMVU

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Lunch

12;30 - 1:00 PM Conversation: Getting to Plan B
* Randy Komisar, KPCB

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Minimum Viable Product Case Study: Aardvark
*Max Ventilla and Damon Horowitz, Google (Aardvark)

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Pivot Case Study: Flowtown
*Dan Martell and Ethan Bloch, Flowtown

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Pivot Case Study: KISSmetrics
*Hiten Shah, KISSmetrics

2:30 PM - 3:20 PM But What about Design? Minimum Desirable Product
*Andrew Chen (Futuristic Play), Laura Klein, Dave McClure, Rashmi Sinha

3:20 PM - 3:45 PM Afternoon Break

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM Customer Development 2.0
*Steve Blank

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM Is Customer Development Marketing? Food on the Table Case Study
*Manuel Rosso, Food on the Table

4:45 PM - 5:15 PM Customer Development Case Study: Dropbox
*Drew Houston, Dropbox

5:15 PM - 5:45 PM Customer Development Case Study: PB Works
*David Weekly, PBworks

5:45 PM - 6:30 PM Customer Development Panel
*Cindy Alvarez, Brant Cooper, Sean Ellis, Matt Johnson

This event is intended for people on the front line of delivering products. If you are a start-up founder, an employee engaged in customer or product development role at a company of any stage, or someone at a large company looking to bring the lean startup methodology to your company, we encourage you to attend the event.

  • Jeff Seibert
    Jeff Seibert

    How is the simulcast being done (technically)?

    Posted April 7, 2010 at 1:44 PM
  • John Prendergast
    John Prendergast

    Unclear. Its still being set up.

    Posted April 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM
  • Videoguy941
    Videoguy941

    Does this start at 8, the meetup says 11:30? I assume it is being held at this location and is there a cost? Sounds great!

    Posted April 12, 2010 at 1:30 PM
  • Desmond Pieri
    Desmond Pieri

    Videoguy941, all times are PDT. (It says PST, but it's PDT). So it starts at 8:30 AM in California, 11:30 AM in Boston. Des

    Posted April 12, 2010 at 2:17 PM
  • Matthew Mamet
    Matthew Mamet

    @videoguy941 - The conference is taking place in California, so we'll be 3 hours ahead of their posted Agenda. There's no cost to attend. Please tell your friends about this - all are welcome!

    @desmond pieri - Thanks for pointing out my mistake re: PST - I've fixed that in the agenda to avoid confusion.

    @jeff seibert - we're still waiting on final details from the conference organizers. I'll post another comment when we know the tech details.

    Posted April 13, 2010 at 9:16 AM
  • Matthew Mamet
    Matthew Mamet

    The simulcast will be done through Justin.TV

    Posted April 20, 2010 at 10:33 AM
  • Oleg Shilovitsky
    Oleg Shilovitsky

    It was a good meeting, excellent organization, simulcast was good enough technically. Good job! Tx.

    Posted April 24, 2010 at 9:00 AM
  • A former member

    Agreed / excellent meeting and great conversations around the table!

    Posted April 24, 2010 at 10:21 AM
  • Anand Rajaram
    Anand Rajaram

    Great conference. Thanks for arranging the Simulcast. Wish I had more conversations in person.

    I posted some of my takeaways (Part 1 anyway), at http://www.startupproductmanager.com/2010/04/drinking-fro...

    Posted April 27, 2010 at 1:16 AM
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