Startup Lessons Learned is the first event designed to unite those interested in what it takes to succeed in building a lean startup. The goal for this event is to give practitioners and students of the lean startup methodology the opportunity to hear insights from leaders in embracing and deploying the core principles of the lean startup methodology. The day-long event will feature a mix of panels and talks focused on the key challenges and issues that technical and market-facing people at startups need to understand in order to succeed in building successful lean startups.
Hosts
Eric Ries, The Lean Startup (@ericries)
Eric Ries is the author of the forthcoming book The Lean Startup which will be published in September, 2011 by Crown Business, as well as the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned.
He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and 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 worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. In 2010, he became an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School.
Charles Hudson (@chudson)
Charles Hudson is a Venture Partner at SoftTech VC and the CEO and Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games, a mobile games company based in San Francisco, CA.
Until February 2010, Hudson was the VP of Business Development for Serious Business, a leading producer of social games for the social web. Zynga acquired Serious Business in February of 2010.
Hudson was the Founder of 3rd Power LLC, a conference and events company that was sold to WebMediaBrands in December 2009. Hudson also works with Inside Network to produce a series of research reports called Inside Virtual Goods.
Prior to joining Serious Business, Hudson was the Sr. Director for Business Development at Gaia Online, a leading online hangout for teens and young adults. Hudson also worked at Google, IronPort Systems, and In-Q-Tel, the venture capital group for the CIA.
Hudson holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from
Stanford University.
David Sachs (@valuative)
David Sachs is co-founder of Valuative Software, a provider of capital structure modeling software that helps entrepreneurs (like Komli) and VCs (like Emergence Capital) protect their upside with easy-to-use and deadly accurate analysis for fund-raising, term sheets and M&A.
David was COO of 3rd Power LLC, a conference and events company acquired by WebMediaBrands in 2009. Previously,
He was a Senior Associate at Trident Capital in Palo Alto, where he focused on growth equity, VC and buyout investments. Before that, he was an Analyst at Redpoint Ventures, where he worked on early-stage investments in software, internet, and infrastructure.
Before Redpoint, he was a Product Manager at online golf retailer Chipshot.com, and an investment banker at NationsBanc Montgomery Securities.
David has an AB in Government from Harvard University and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar. He is a CFA charterholder and an EMT-B.
