FAILs and WINs of Lean Startup at the Cheezburger Factory by Scott Porad

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Cheezburger Network--the company behind I Can Has Cheezburger? Failblog.org, Memebase.com, TheDailyWh.at and KnowYourMeme.com--is the leading humor and entertainment destination on the web. Since Day One, the company has embraced and experimented with Lean Startup principles. The company sent a delegation to the first ever Startup Lessons Learned conference, and recently had a weekly "book club" where the development team read Eric Ries' book, The Lean Startup, and met weekly to discuss its ideas.

Scott Porad leads Product Development as the CTO of Cheezburger, and will share the successes and failures that Cheezburger has had with Lean Startup principles. Since 1995, Scott has been building industry leading web sites including launching drugstore.com (http://drugstore.com/), working on ESPN.com at Paul Allen's Starwave Corporation and for Seth Godin at Yoyodyne Entertainment. Scott lives online at http://scottporad.com (http://scottporad.com/) and in real life with his family on Mercer Island.

Go "Lean"

Come and learn about quick-turn around and rapid growth from some of the leading Lean experts in the field. This is also a great opportunity for networking, and yes, we have name-tags. (NOTE: It's $5 to cover food and other costs, but if you didn't RSVP, it's $10 at the door.) New to lean? That's okay! Go to TheLeanStartup.com (http://theleanstartup.com/), check out WikiPedia's Definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Startup) and tune into the Startup Lessons Learned (http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/) blog, and come prepared for the meetup.

Agenda

6:00 - Registration

6:30 - Start w/ Intro & Scope

6:35 - "15 Second” Spotlights

6:45 - "15 Minute" Networking (Pizza, Beer/Wine Included)

7:00 - Scott Porad from Cheeseburger Factory

8:00 - Raffle, Feedback And Closing Remarks

8:15 - Cocktail Hour