DC Lean Startup Circle

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Past events

• Metrics: Your Startup's Best Friend (and Worst Enemy)

  20-21 Oct 2011 in Arlington, United States

  We're thrilled to welcome Hiten Shah of KISSmetrics and Steph Hay of FastCustomer to our October meetup, which also will include a lean startup hack, teaser for the Lean Startup Machine, and a Q&A session with an attorney from Cooley LLP.THIS IS A JAM-PACKED EVENT, so RSVP now before we sell out.Hiten Shah

• The Art of the Pivot: How Startups Rapidly Discover Models that Work

  8-9 Sep 2011 in Arlington, United States

  **Note new location**Before the Lean Startup movement entrepreneurs expected the business plan to work as described and made major strategic changes in a crisis.Today's lean startups not only accept change as a part of doing business, they expect the plan to be wrong and structure their business around rapid learning and strategic pivots.At the Lean Startup meetup of 2011 we'll explore what works and what doesn't.Learn from Silicon Valley's Experts: Pivotal Labs

• Join Dan Martell of Flowtown, plus GroupFlier and Brazen Careerist

  26-27 Apr 2011 in Arlington, United States

  We're psyched to welcome Dan Martell (@danmartell) via Skype as our guest expert for April's Meetup. Dan is the co-founder of | Flowtown, a social marketing platform for small businesses. Before that, he formed his first start-up, Spheric Technologies Inc., and watched it grow by an average of 152% per year before he sold the company 4 years later in mid-2008.

• Behind the Scenes with Brad Feld, Andrew Warner, & 2 Local Startups

  29-30 Mar 2011 in Arlington, United States

  (Morris Panner, CEO of GroupFlier, will now be speaking at the April event.)With this event featuring top VC Brad Feld, Mixergy's Andrew Warner, Giv.to, and Style Borrow, we're already sold out!If you got a ticket, here's what you can expect:The Talks:The entrepreneurs behind 2 DC startups – Giv.to and Style Borrow (working name) – will discuss the strategies they use to develop markets, get early customers, and build their products.1.

• Expert Max Ventilla of Aardvark, FortiusOne and CloudSpree

  22-23 Feb 2011 in Arlington, United States

  We're thrilled to welcome Aardvark's Max Ventilla as our expert in February.He'll be providing insight and feedback to two local startups, FortiusOne with Sean Gorman, and CloudSpree with Sean Murphy.The ExpertWondering if LeanStartup tactics actually work in practice? Ask Max Ventilla of Aardvark. With Eric Ries as an advisor, Aardvark learned and pivoted their way to a $5M series A round and successful acquisition by Google in 2010.

• Lean Startups 101 - Minimizing Waste and Maximizing Success

  13-14 Jan 2010 in Arlington, United States

  What can you do TODAY to minimize waste and maximize your probability of startup success? RSVP for the first official meetup of the DC Lean Startup Circle! To kick off the New Year and our first official meetup, we will be covering basic lean startup concepts. If you attended Kevin's Barcamp DC talk, expect an expanded version of the same including presentations, case studies, and audience interactions.

• ManyWheels: Lessons from a lean startup case study

  4-5 Nov 2009 in Arlington, United States

  There are a gazillion general networking events in DC and I don't want to create another one. Instead, my hope is to keep the DC Lean Startup Circle events focused on the tools, techniques, and experiences of people who are fighting and sweating in the trenches to get startup products launched in lean fashion as described by Eric Ries, Steve Blank, and others.

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