Lean Startup Meetup featuring Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup

Join gener8tor as we host Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup (http://theleanstartup.com/book).

This Meetup is open to the public!

About Eric:

Eric Ries (http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/) is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business (http://theleanstartup.com/book), published by Crown Business. He graduated in 2001 from Yale University with a B.S. in Computer Science. While an undergraduate, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com (http://www.there.com), leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU (http://www.imvu.com/), his third startup. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/special_reports/20070326techsbesty.htm). In 2008 he served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers before moving on to advise startups independently. Today he serves on the board of directors for Code for America and on the advisory board of a number of technology startups and venture capital firms. In 2009, Ries was honored with a TechFellow award (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/05/2009-techfellow-awards-the-winners/) in the category of Engineering Leadership. In 2010, he was named entrepreneur-in-residence (http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/2010entrepreneursinresidence.html) at Harvard Business School and is currently an IDEO Fellow. The Lean Startup methodology (http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/09/lean-startup.html) has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Inc., Wired, Fast Company, and countless blogs.

gener8tor is thankful for Eric donating his time to come speak to the Madison entrepreneurial community!