PDX Lean Startup Circle

What is a Lean Startup!?

Collaborative Software Initiative Inc. / Umpqua Bank Building (map)

Selected By: Mike Herrick

Uploaded by: Mike Herrick

The Founder of "The Lean Startups", Eric Ries will be joining us via phone.

We'll discuss the philosophy of a Lean Startup from 10,000 feet or so. Items we will cover:

Lean Thinking, Lean Software Development, Agile
Steve Blank's Customer Development
Capital Efficiency
Built on Commodity/Scalable/Innovative Stack: Use of Open Source Software, Cloud Computing, etc.

We'll mention some specific techniques that are popular in Lean Startups. These might make good future meeting topics.

Agenda

6:00 - 6:30 Meet & Greet
6:30 - 6:40 Quick Introductions
6:40 - 6:50 Why I started the Lean Startup / What is Lean Startup from 100,000 feet (Eric Ries)
6:50 - 7:10 Lean Thinking (Patrick Logan)
7:10 - 7:30 Customer Development (Erik Howard)
7:30 - 7:40 Built on Commodity/Scalable/Innovative Stack: Use of Open Source Software, Cloud Computing, etc. (Mike Herrick)
7:40 - ? Discuss
8:00 - ? Beverage at Veritable Quandary

Pre-reading Ideas

Lean Software Development
http://www.poppendiec...

Mike Herrick
Hi Ron, Good idea. We'll get a list of things that would be worth reading prior to the meeting added to the meeting agenda in the coming days.

Posted February 21, 2010 at 3:31 PM
Patrick Logan
My starting point for lean software development is http://www.poppendieck.com/ -I don't have anything yet in particular for startups.

Posted February 21, 2010 at 10:08 PM
Mike Herrick
Hey cool, Eric Ries, the founder of "The Lean Startup" concept is going to dial into our meeting March 16 to join us :)

Posted February 22, 2010 at 7:16 PM
Erik Howard
Mike, that's great. How did you manage to pull that off? Eric is pretty busy these days.

Posted February 22, 2010 at 7:41 PM
Mike Herrick
I updated he meeting agenda with a "Pre-reading Ideas" section per Ron's suggestion. It isn't exhaustive, but certainly enough to chew on and then some :) Erik, Eric Ries generously volunteered to join us from SXSW.

Posted February 22, 2010 at 8:42 PM
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