by Ford | Dec 4, 2012 | Agile, Events, Lean Startup, Startups
Yesterday, I went to The Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco. It was a full day of incredible presentations, fireside chats (without the fires), sharing of lessons learned and of course networking. This was my first Lean Startup conference and I was blown away by...
by arin | Dec 3, 2012 | Startups, User Group Reports
Here are the slides that I used last night at the Lean Startup Conference’s Ignite talks. I am indebted to Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein of The Lean Startup Conference for giving me the opportunity to present. I have spoken at a good number of conferences...
by Ford | Nov 5, 2012 | Customer Development, Startups
AgilityFeat had an opportunity to meet Tony Cappaert, co-founder of Contactually, at AgileDC a few weeks ago. After hearing Tony tell the Contactually story, we wanted to learn more and asked Tony to share his insights into how Contactually is applying Lean Startup...
by arin | Oct 15, 2012 | Agile, AgilityCasts, Events, Startups
I’m very pleased to say that I will be presenting an Ignite talk at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco in December. I will talk about some anti-patterns that I see in software development for startups. In short, my advice is to “Just Deploy...
by arin | Sep 28, 2012 | Agile, Startups
My wife and I love the TV show “The Big Bang Theory.” And given the name of the show, this clip is particularly funny to me because software betas are discussed in the context of a relationship. Leonard and Penny are flirting with the idea of dating again,...