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OK, I’m not sure how many of you are developers, but I think most are. So, this is Stack Overflow for business, ’nuff said.
Lean Startup Geek Smackdown In DC — TECH cocktail
March 7, 2010 by shkadmin
Last night, I attended the DC Lean Startup Circle in Arlington, Virginia, hosted by Kevin Dewalt and Ken Yarmosh, featuring a couple of industry heavy weights, Dave McClure and Eric Ries, talking about everything “Lean Startup.” The group was in town for the Startup Visa Act which we covered previously. The duo spoke for a bit and then answered some questions from local entrepreneur about the lean startup mantra. I had always thought that lean startup = bootstrapping. I was way definitely mistaken. Lean Startup encompasses some great principles that Eric, who writes a blog called Startup Lessons Learned, was able to really break “lean startup” down for the audience and give some real world examples to further solidify the principles. In a nutshell, there are three principles that define lean startup:
- How to measure progress
- What’s the cycle time of having the idea and validating it
- Minimize cycle time
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Good video of Eric Ries and Dave McClure at a meetup in DC discussing Lean Startup.
Entrepreneur communities are emerging in Hong Kong | Grow VC > Blog
March 7, 2010 by shkadmin
Hong Kong has been as busy as usually. It has been a pleasure to meet a lot of entrepreneurs and people who are helping startups. Our main bank HSBC also has now their head office functions, including CEO’s office, here in Hong Kong. So, these days have been full of meetings with existing and potential users and partners of Grow VC. I was also able to visit in a famous Scandinavian-Finnish restaurant, FINDS, and get some Finnish food in HK, and meet some good friends, like Thibaud, Eric and Tomi, who also help me here.
I especially like to thank Michael, Daniel, and Jonathan, who were interested to organize meetings on Saturday and also invite other entrepreneurs. Michael is actually working in Shenzhen and can help to create entrepreneur communities there too. It was also an honor to meet Charles Mok, who is very well known and respected character in HK’s Internet business community. In all these meetings we also talked about Grow VC’s concept to enable people to create their own funding network on Grow VC’s platform. We are looking partners to do it locally around the world.
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I had an excellent meeting with Jouko on Saturday. I’m planning on signing up for their system and putting together a review of everything to cover what they are doing and what my experience with it is.
