We’re all here big fans of Steve Blank and Eric Ries. The Startup Lessons Learned Conference held last Friday was inspirational for us in several ways. It highlighted many of the points we at Aaltoes believe to be crucial in educating future entrepreneurs in Bootcamp or through Aaltoes events.
One of Steve Blanks main ideas is that at startups, you search and pivot. At companies, on the other hand, you execute the proven business model. Big businesses revolve around a relatively consistent set of best practices, but every start-up is unique and you need customer development, operational scaling and, instead of traditional accounting, an understanding of the appropriate performance metrics. In short, we need e-schools – not b-school. We need to teach entrepreneurial skills not business manager skills.
We’re going to pay a small homage to the SLLConf by organising a shadow event next Wednesday. If you’re interested in watching some of the SLLConf videos with likeminded people, sign up here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121057001241519&index=1
For the rest, here’s a list of the speakers & their presentations. Enjoy!
Opening Discussion & Welcome / Video
Eric Ries (@ericries)
Build Keynote: “To Agility, and Beyond” / Video
Kent Beck (@kentbeck)
Continuous Deployment Case Study/ Video
Ash Maurya, WiredReach (@ashmaurya)
Agile Development Case Study/ Video
Farb Nivi, Grockit (@farbood)
Case Study: “But Does it Scale?” / Video
IMVU (@imvuinc) / Tim Fitz (@timothyfitz), James Birchler (@jamesbirchler), Brett Durrett
But What About Design? / Video
Panel (Moderator: Dave McClure (@davemcclure), Andrew Chen (@andrew_chen), Siqi Chen (@blader), Zynga, Laura Klein (@lauraklein). Rashmi Sinha (@rashmi), SlideShare)
Minimum Viable Product Case Study / Video
Damon Horowitz, Max Ventilla, Aardvark
Pivot Case Study / Video
Ethan Bloch, Dan Martell / Flowtown
Pivot Case Study / Video
Hiten Shah / KISSMetrics
Customer Development 2.0 / Video
Steve Blank (@sgblank)
Is Customer Development Marketing? Food on the Table Case Study / Video
Manuel Rosso(@manuelrosso)
Customer Development Case Study: Dropbox / Video
Drew Houston(@drewhouston)
Customer Development Case Study: PBWorks / Video
David Weekly(@dweekly)
Customer Development Panel: “But Who Should Actually Get Out of the Building?” / Video
Panel (Moderator: Sean Ellis (@seanellis), 12in6, Cindy Alvarez (@cindyalvarez), KISSMetrics David Binetti (@dbinetti), Votizen, Brant Cooper (@brantcooper), Market By Numbers, Matt Johnson, (@matjohnson Grockit)
