The Lean Startup

Speaker(s): Eric Ries
Chair: Dr Linda Hickman
Recorded on 12 January 2012 in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building.

Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that's being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want. It's about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it's too late. Now is the time to think Lean.

This event marks the publication of Eric Ries new book The Lean Startup.

Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup and the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned.He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup. In 2007, BusinessWeek named him one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. In 2009, he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has consulted to new and established companies as well as venture capital firms. He is currently serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and a Fellow for IDEO, the design consulting firm. His Lean Startup methodology has been written about in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, and many blogs.

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[lsewebsite]

@jrguzmanb glad you liked it, see the link in the description for the slides.

[Conner Douglass]

Minimum viable product-- genius! Wonderful talk. Thank you very much for this.

[islandmurphybeds]

This dude is really smart, i hope you don't need to be this smart in order to become succuesful or i'm in serious trouble...

[pattyheno]

Great empowering talk.

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woman too

[imperiallion]

amazing video awesome guy too.

[Peeyush Mishra]

Good stuff ... thanks for this upload.

[SureFireExcellence]

Excellent presentation and some great lessons and ideas all round. Some of the questions at the  end generate some really useful insight. Thanks.