I found the event extremely useful. The mix of investors, founders and CEOs made for some very interesting discussions. I look forward to other similar events.
If you are looking to start a business, you would be insane not to spend 1 minute watching this neat little video about the Springboard Accelerator programme. This is a 90 day, hugely intense, programme of beasting, mentoring, coaching, coaxing, network supercharging, pizza eating, coffee drinking and get your sh*t together planning.
One of these is definitely about Springboard.
Deadline for entry into the next programme, to be held in London, is 29th January.
This is what happened to the first crop of Springboard Alumni… (more…)
I read this book because the guy who wrote it, Mike Frankel, dropped me a line after he saw some tweets about the Lean Startup talk Eric Ries gave last week. It is available as a free eBook, took less than 10 minutes to read and made me laugh. Of course the premise that an absurd app might take off in any way is ridiculous but suspend your disbelief…
“I’m stunned that Apple would approve my ridiculous software. My product now joins an exclusive brotherhood of 600,000+ apps. I pull out my iPhone, click on the app store, and search. There it is! The icon, which I originally dismissed as amateurish, looks remarkably professional surrounded by Apple’s sleek store and a $2.99 price tag. So much to do! Ok, let me pull up the marketing strategy I wrote a few weeks ago.
1) Get in Apple Store.
2) Tell your Facebook friends.
Hmm. I thought I wrote a more robust plan than that.”
A guest post from Anton Clay at 21Apps about our CEO Tales event, The Lean Startup in London with Eric Ries.
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I don’t work at a web startup, we don’t make products and we’re not the usual kind of company you’d find at an event like BLN’s Lean Startup evening with Eric Ries last Monday.
To justify my ‘presence’ here, let’s start with some background – I work at 21apps (www.21apps.com) we are a small UK based consulting organisation with one aim and that is to ‘inspire people to change the way they work’. We do this through consulting, training, mentoring and workshops and although our current focus is largely around working with our clients to implement Microsoft SharePoint effectively to support organisational goals (not just dump the technology in), we also work with non-technology clients and our aspirations are to ‘inspire everyone to change the way they work’. (more…)
For those of you that can’t wait for the video of Eric’s Lean Startup talk on Monday, here are the slides from Eric’s talk including some great bonus material including the, ‘Myths of Lean’.
Massive thanks to – DFJ Esprit, TechCity, Brown Rudnick, Fidelity Growth Partners, Microsoft BizSpark, Red Gate and Springboard - for making such an excellent evening possible.
Our next public event is MiM2012, a one day forum for corporate buyers and entrepreneurial sellers of mobile technologies. March 22nd 2012. Early Bird tickets available until January 31st. More info…
If you run a conference and ever get someone called Betsy Weber registering, make sure she brings a camera. Her photography is brilliantly atmospheric (and this was a business event!). Flickr photos tagged BLNLean.
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Massive thanks to – DFJ Esprit, TechCity, Brown Rudnick, Fidelity Growth Partners, Microsoft BizSpark, Red Gate and Springboard - for making such an excellent evening possible.
Our next public event is MiM2012, a one day forum for corporate buyers and entrepreneurial sellers of mobile technologies. March 22nd 2012. Early Bird tickets available until February 6th. More info…
This short and fascinating talk below from Nick Lansley (Head of R&D, Tesco) reveals the real reasons why Tesco entered mobile, their experimental approach and how they increased sales and profit as a result.
Lessons from the High Street over the past weeks show that mobile is where retail is heading and that the early adopters of this channel are emerging as winners. Dozens of brick-and-mortar retailers are going bankrupt whilst the value of mobile transactions in retail is expected to more than double to $200bn globally in 2012 (Juniper Research).
Nick will be sharing his insights about where retail is winning in mobile and where retailers can learn from other industries at our forthcoming MiM Forum 2012 (22nd March, London). If you are in retail and want to know how mobile can make your business money then you need to be at the MiM Forum. Listen to stories of success and more interestingly – failure, join in discussions around real, actionable opportunities in mobile and network with people who are experts by dint of being ‘doers’, not ‘talkers’.
We record and share the talks, but the real value of MiM Forum comes from the people you meet on the day. MiM 2012 is a gathering of the buyers and suppliers of mobile technology that are changing the way business is done.
A limited number of Early Bird tickets are still available – you can buy them here. You will need to be quick though – we completely sold out last year. As with all BLN events, if you attend and don’t feel that you got value, we will refund the full price of your ticket.
Pictures from the BLN CEO Tales – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. Put your pictures on Flickr and tag them BLNLean to share.
Special thanks to Betsy Weber for the good ones.
Massive thanks to our supporters - DFJ Esprit, TechCity, Brown Rudnick, Fidelity Growth Partners, Microsoft BizSpark, Red Gate and Springboard - for making such an excellent evening possible.
