This post curates content and commentary related to the 2012 Lean Startup Conference: videos, blog posts, slides, articles, etc..
Lean Startup Conference Main Program Mon-Dec-3-2012
Opening Remarks by Eric Ries
- Presenter: Eric Ries / blog / @ericries / W: Eric Ries / The Lean Startup
- Book: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Video: pending
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lean Government
- Intro: Aneesh Chopra / @aneeshchopra / W: Aneesh Chopra / F: Aneesh Chopra / Former US CTO (2009-2012)
- Presenter: Todd Park / @Todd_Park / W: Todd Park / United States Chief Technology Officer
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwDP419H2P4
- References
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Running Short Experiments During a Long Product Cycle
- Presenter: Diane Tavenner / blog / @SummitPS / Summit Public Schools
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0chGz5ZlKUE
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Ten Ways to Get Out of the Building
- Presenter: Tendai Charasika / blog / @XcellentTea / EnterpriseCorp
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/tendai-charasika-2012-lean-startup-conference
- Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpEcnWgM5q8
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
What Is Innovation Accounting?
- Q&A: Tereza Nemessanyi / blog / @terezan / Honestly Now
- Q&A: Eric Ries / blog / @ericries / W: Eric Ries / The Lean Startup
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNgQCto0y4Q
Bringing Lean Startup to Life at GE, One of the World’s Biggest Companies
- Q&A: Beth Comstock / @bethcomstock / GE
- Q&A: Eric Ries / blog / @ericries / W: Eric Ries / The Lean Startup
- GE Open Innovation Efforts: Hospital Quest / Flight Quest
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTXdV1DU0mU
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Prototyping to Validate a Big Idea at Getaround
- Presenter: Jessica Scorpio / blog / @jessicascorpio / Q: Jessica Scorpio / Getaround
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/jessica-scorpio-2012-lean-startup-conference
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quFcl-RarsY
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Fast, Cheap and In Control: Testing the Market for a New Kind of Car
- Presenter: Danny Kim / @LitMotors / LitMotors
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/daniel-kim-2012-lean-startup-conference
- Video:
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
I (Heart) Ugly
- Presenter: Lane Halley / blog / @thinknow / Carbon Five
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/lane-halley-2012-lean-startup-conference
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQjSuJZDu3Q
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Secrets of Rapid Mobile App Development
- Presenter: Matt Brezina / blog / @brezina / Sincerely
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/brezina/secrets-of-rapid-app-development-lean-startup-conf-2012
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uuedQa_KrE
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
On the Way to Lean Startup: Curvy and Working it Out
- Presenter: Ron J. Williams / blog / @ronjdub / Knodes
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/RonJWilliams/kinda-lean-curvy-and-working-out-15503861
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MICMlSkWIaY
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Failure is Great and Other Myths of the Lean Startup
- Presenter: Andres Glusman / @glusman / Meetup
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/andres-glusman
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_t_lBqDZLQ
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
How Engineers Embrace The Lean Startup
- Presenter: Evan Henshaw-Plath / blog / @rabble / Neo
- Presenter: Sam McAfee / @sammcafee / Change.org
- Presenter: Melissa Sedano / @BloomBoard / BloomBoard
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhD4X1o0oLQ
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
We Went to West Africa and Learned Our Key Assumptions Were Wrong
- Presenter: Jocelyn Wyatt / @jocelynw / IDEO.org
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/LeanStartupConf/we-went-to-west-africa-and-learned-our-key-assumptions-were-wrong-15562800
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjQfVTqFioA
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Moving Fast While Caring About Design at Hipmunk
- Presenter: Adam Goldstein / @adamjgoldstein / Hipmunk.com
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Wz2d4A_L8
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Testing MVPs with Crowdfunding
- Presenter: Justin Wilcox / @Justin_Wilcox / Customer Development Labs
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/justin-wilcox-lean-startup-conference-2012
- Video:
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
- Testing MVPs with Crowdfunding by Bill Devine
- Crowdtesting: How many $’s is your idea worth? by Justin Wilcox
Making Decisions By Ignoring Sales Metrics
- Presenter: Alejandro Velez / @BTTRVentures / Back to the Roots
- Presenter: Nikhil Arora / @BTTRVentures / Back to the Roots
- Slides:
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMHmepufgaA
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lean Content: Using Words To Acquire Customers
- Presenter: Stephanie Hay / blog / @steph_hay / FastCustomer
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/stephanie-hay-lean-startup-conference-2012
- Video:
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
10,000 Startups
- Presenter: Steve Blank / blog / @sgblank / W: Steve Blank
- Book: Four Steps to The Epiphany by Steve Blank
- Reference : Lean Launchpad – How To Build a Startup (Udacity Course EP245)
- Presenter: Alexander Osterwalder / @AlexOsterwalder
- Book: Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur
- References: http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/2012/08/achieve-product-market-fit-with-our-brand-new-value-proposition-designer.html
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/LeanStartupConf/10000-startups
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWl2tL-2yMo
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Running a Lean Startup Sales Process
- Presenter: George Bilbrey @gbilbrey / Return Path, Inc.
- Book: Escape Velocity by Geoffrey Moore (for “three planning horizon model”)
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/bilbrey-2012-lean-startup-conference
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYjxmf5PmWk
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Bonfire of the Vanity Metrics: Numbers You’re Still Using and Shouldn’t
- Presenter: Ivory Madison / blog / @ivorymadison / Red Room
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/ivory-madison-2012-lean-startup-conference
- Video:
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Innovation Accounting in Practice
- Presenter: Ash Maurya / blog / @ashmaurya / Spark59
- Book: Running Lean by Ash Maurya
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/ash-innovationaccounting
- Reference: “10 Steps to Product Market Fit”
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30kq_mi7z8s
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lean Marketing
- Presenter: Leah Busque / @labusque / TaskRabbit
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/leah-busque-2012-lean-startup-conference
- Video: pending
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
How To Run a 5 Whys (With Humans, Not Robots)
- Presenter: Dan Milstein / @danmil / Wingu
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/danmil30/how-to-run-a-5-whys-with-humans-not-robots
- Video:
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
The Challenge of Sustaining Disruptive Innovation When You Meet Success
- Presenter: Robert Fan / @rfan / Sharethrough
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/robert-fan-2012-lean-startup-conference
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqEN5ZK75Qk
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Creating a Culture of Experimentation: Ideas and Best Practices
- Panelist: Scott Cook / @intuit / W: Scott Cook / Intuit
- Panelist: Carol Howe / Intuit
- Panelist: Joe Hernandez / Intuit
- Panelist: Dr. Bharath Kadaba / blog / Intuit
- Slides:
- References: “Leadership In The Innovation Age: Four Principles for Leaders” by Scott Cook
- Video:
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
One Year Later: Dropbox Answers Your Questions
- Q&A: Drew Houston / @drewhouston / Dropbox
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE-C-i74jsY
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Making the Call on a Platform Pivot
- Presenter: Charles Hudson / blog / @chudson / SoftTech VC
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/startuplessonslearned/charles-hudson-2012-lean-startup-conference
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aQBTexprL0
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lessons Learned Getting Out Of The Building
- Presenter: Mark Abramson / blog / @mark__a / Forward Thought
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kddld-SS7lw
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/mark__a/chefs-table-lean-startup-conference
One Year Later: Lessons from Votizen
- Presenter: Dave Binetti / @dbinetti / Votizen
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY_Lf-UK3pI
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
A Conversation with Marc Andreessen
- Q&A: Marc Andreessen / blog / blog-archive / @a16z /W: Marc Andreessen / Andreessen Horowitz
- Q&A: Eric Ries / blog / @ericries / W: Eric Ries / The Lean Startup
- Video:
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
- Marc Andreesen: Not Every Startup Should Be a Lean Startup Or Embrace the Pivot by Eliza Kern
- Marc Andreesen: Dot Com Bust Was Basically a Mistake by Lora Kolodny (WSJ)
- Conversation with Marc Andreessen: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 by Bill Devine
- Lean’s Great Dilemma: Persist or Pivot by Giff Constable
- Lean start-up model gives ‘permission to give up very fast’ by Michelle Hammond
Lean Startup Conference Ignite Talks on Sun-Dec-2-2012
Lean Startup Approach to PR
- Presenter: Ana Yoerg / @aryoerg / Rumgr
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COP-iKpjtOw
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lessons Learned Rebooting Moveline
- Presenter: Kelly Eidson / @keidson / Moveline
- Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/di3duqfey8e6p2s/kellyeidson_WhatIWishIKnew_revised.pdf
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7YiGGT1KM
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lean Startup in the Enterprise
- Presenter: David Bland / blog / @davidjbland / BigVisible
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/7thpixel/ignite-lean-startup-in-the-enterprise
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK5xRWVRy-c
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Just Deploy It
- Presenter: Arin Sime / @ArinSime / AgilityFeat
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/arinsime/just-deploy-it
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEsk8Nfwfck
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
- Just Deploy It by Arin Sime
Building a Lean Mean Design Team
- Presenter: Tutti Taygerly / @tuttitaygerly / Substantial
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/ttaygerly/building-a-lean-mean-design-team
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbWLJK2rq1s
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Why Every Startup Employee Should Learn to Code
- Presenter: Adria Richards @adriarichards / SendGrid
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w3X6Urxlg0
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
When You Are the Disruptee
- Presenter: Joe Dunn @startup2020 / Cloudbreak
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUlu7jPCRKc
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lean Your Marketing
- Presenter: Beth Morgan @BethMorgan Marketing Nerdistry
- Slides: http://portal.sliderocket.com/CRSKJ/BethMorgan_LeanYourMarketing
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdyP1EdNX9A
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary:
- Ignite Lean Startup Presentation: Lean Your Marketing by Beth Morgan
The Psychology of Pivoting
- Presenter: John Bradberry @JohnBradberry / ReadyFounder Services
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/JohnBradberry/slides-from-my-ignite-talk-at-lean-startup-conference-2012
- Video:
- Book: 6 Secrets to Startup Success by John Bradberry
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
- Lean Startup Narrated Slides by John Bradberry
Diagnosing Customer Problems
- Presenter: Diana Kander / blog / @DianaKander / Kauffman Foundation
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uiBuJGeJhU
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
- How to Diagnose Your Riskiest Assumptions by Diana Kander
It’s Not What You Think (Leap of Faith Assumptions)
- Presenter: Arthur Bart-Williams / @canogle / Canogle
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zMUYZBTw6I
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
The I of the Storm
- Presenter: Kendall Quinones / F: Kendall Quinones / @sparkanauts / Sparkative
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoE2dWbbLBc
New York Port Authority Goes Lean
- Presenter: Kuty Shalev / @kuty / Clevertech
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/clevertech/ignite-2012-using-lean-methodology-to-develop-for-the-port-authority
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvssTYYRynA
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary:
Why Big Media Companies Should Go Lean
- Presenter: Navarrow Wright / @navarrowwright / Interactive One
- Slides: pending
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPk2pWHKMIo
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Parallels Between Lean Startups and Lean Hospitals
- Mark Graban / blog / @MarkGraban / KaiNexus
- Slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ev42qjziupxvi9/MarkGraban_LeanStartupHospitals.pdf?m
- Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70OXsRL3CiI
- Book: Lean Hospitals by Mark Graban
- Book: Healthcare Kaizen by Mark Graban and Joseph E. Swartz
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lean Startup Conference Workshops Tue-Dec-4-2012
Validate Your Learning Engines
- Presenter: Janice Fraser / @clevergirl / Luxr
- Presenter: Laura Klein / @lauraklein / Users Know
- Slides:
- Book: UX For Lean Startups by Laura Klein
- Book: The Lean Product Book; How Smart Teams Work Better by Janice Fraser
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Build Successful (and Sane) Iterative Apps
- Presenter: Kelly Goto / @go2girl / portfolio / gotomedia
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lean Analytics: Using Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
- Presenter: Alistair Croll / blog / @acroll / Solve For Interesting
- Presenter: Ben Yoskovitz / blog / @byosko / GoInstant
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Leananalytics/lean-analytics-workshop-from-lean-startup-conf
- Book: Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll & Ben Yoskovitz
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary:
- Lean Analytics workshop at the Lean Startup Conference by Ben Yoskovitz
- When is it Time to Pivot or Quit? by Ben Yoskovitz
Lean Startup in the Enterprise
- Presenter: David Bland / blog / @davidjbland / BigVisible
- Presenter; Ismael Elshareef / blog / @ielshareef / Edmunds.com
- Presenter: Giff Constable / blog / @giffco / Neo
- Presenter: Jeff Gothelf / blog / @jboogie / Neo
- Book: Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience by Jeff Gothelf (Feb-2013)
- Presenter: Stacey Gutman / @StaceyGutman / American Express OPEN
- Presenter: Bill Scott / blog / portfolio / @billwscott / PayPal
- Presenter: Josh Seiden / blog / @jseiden / Neo
- Slides: https://newcontext.box.com/s/o0w9qv65h45r60f02ko0 [PDF]
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
- Customer Development Is Not Just For Startups by Sean Murphy
The Lean Entrepreneur: Embrace the Unknown to Go Big
- Presenter: Brant Cooper / @brantcooper / Market By Numbers
- Presenter: Patrick Vlaskovits / blog / @pv / Drumbi
- Book: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development by Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits
- Book: The Lean Entrepreneur by Brant Cooper & Patrick Vlaskovits
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Engineering Your Sales Process
- Presenter: Sean Murphy / blog / @skmurphy / SKMurphy & Bootstrappers Breakfast
- Presenter: Scott Sambucci / blog / @ScottSambucci / Q: Scott Sambucci / SalesQualia
- Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SalesQualia/engineering-your-sales-process
- Book: Startup Selling: How To Sell If You Really Really Have To And Don’t Know How by Scott Sambucci
- Book: Value, Profit, and Creativity: Questions That Help You Manage And Deliver Profitable Projects by Michael Domanski and Sean Murphy
- Articles/Blogs/Commentary
Lean Startup Conference Commentary and Other Roundups
- Full Video at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-lean-startup-conference-12-3-12
- Lean Startup Conference Notes (PDF) by Matt Ragland (@MattRagland)
- 20 pages of very legible hand written notes and sketches that capture the flavor of many of the sessions.
- Lean Startup Conference 2012 Notes & Quotes (Slides) by Chase Jennings (@33Voices)
- 26 quotes, one slide per talk for most of the sessions
- Lean Startup Conference Notes by by Trevor Lohrbeer (@FastFedora)
- great detailed summary of many sessions, well organized and presented
- includes Sketchnotes by Sacha Chau (also at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/fphs0g2uhqfm2si/A90JOfvaFk )
- Lean Startup Conference by Blazing Cloud
- roundup of more than a dozen individual posts covering conference sessions, I have linked the individual Blazing Cloud Posts to the sessions above as well. They are well written and often include links to supplementary or related content
- Best Quotes from Lean Startup Conference by Francisco Palao
- 25 quotes one per speaker
- Lean Startup 2012 links by LeanStartupManiax
- long list of links, some only tangentially related to conference
- #LeanStartup Conference 2012 Notes–Get Out Of The Building by Mark Graban
- The Lean Startup Conference on Learni.st/EricRies
- Lean Startup Conference Notes by Jason Benton
- excellent summary, captures essential points from many of the sessions
- Lean Startup 2012 Simulcast by Danny Greenfield (@PyDanny)
- Lean Startup Livestream Dec 3 2012 by Laura Thieme
- EtherPad at https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/ro.qb57OwKG9y1/latest
- (related to https://etherpad.mozilla.org/nJQ6VAljrP )
- Six Lessons From #LeanStartup Conference by Arin Sime (@ArinSime)
- Seven Practical Themes From the Lean Startup Conference by Ismail Elshareef
- Things I Learned in the Morning at the Lean Startup Conference by Ford Englander (@FordEnglander)
- YouTube Channel for Lean Startup Conference http://www.youtube.com/user/StartupLessonsLearne
- Videos from Todd Park, Dan Milstein, and Steve Blank at Lean Startup Conference 2012 by Mark Graban
- Where Do Lean Startup Methods Help Most? by Sean Murphy
Related Blog Posts
- Because this post is already too long I have a separate roundup of the Mentors at Lean Startup 2012 Conference
- The 2012 Lean Startup conference is a re-tooled and expanded version of the Startup Lessons Learned Conference, see these blog posts for roundups from 2010 and 2011
- Lean Startup 2013 Roundup
Excellent list of ToRead
Can’t wait to see video of eng sales process
Hi Sean
Awesome capture of the conference! Thank you!
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