This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Lean Startup Conference. It started as something with“the feel of a religious revival” for true believers, as as author of The Lean Startup, Eric Ries, puts it….
It’s human nature to fall in love with the first idea we come up with to solve a problem, but that very tendency can prevent us from generating truly delightful solutions. When faced with a…
Last year we shared a bit about our work to make the Lean Startup Conference intentionally welcoming and inclusive, including and especially to those who are typically underrepresented and under-served in this sector. This year…
Steven Boone is VP of Revenue at Atrium, a full-service corporate law firm that uses modern technology to provide startups with a fast, transparent, and price-predictable legal experience. In that role, he runs Sales, Marketing…
Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of…
About a year and a half ago, Sahil Lavingia moved from San Francisco to Provo, Utah—which he says is “the most unique thing” about him at the moment. He did so after his company Gumroad…
In a recent fireside chat, Eric Ries sat down with Viv Goldstein and Janice Semper to discuss FastWorks, the innovation platform they co-founded at GE. What followed was a compelling and insightful conversation about their…
You’ve read Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup and have become a true believer, i.e. the path to transforming your company and developing an effective culture of innovation involves empowering small teams to create new products…
Learn from Ignacio Julia Vilar, Chief Innovation Officer at ING Banking, during a fireside chat titled, “Beating Corporate Inertia to Win Big in Innovation.” Here are some key takeaways from the discussion. Interviewer Stephen Liguori…
The very qualities you can count on in large enterprises, such as stability and predictability, can have the unintended effect of holding back innovation, says Geeta Wilson, Vice President of Consumer Experience and Enterprise Transformation…