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Leancamp London 2 – people to learn from
Leancamp is an unconference which means that you help create the day. It’s an opportunity for you to contribute and share and ask others for help, advice and guidance.
Previous Leancamp attendees have told us they value a mix of backgrounds sharing with each other. This has helped people discover and learn from others’ approaches. So, if you’re participating with us this Sunday, why not get to know some of our invited speakers and all the participants. (If you’d like to update your information on this listing, click here then choose “manage order” under Leancamp.)
Eric Ries
Author, The Lean Startup
Founder, IMVU
Eric was the tech-founder, the CTO, of IMVU, which grew successfully as he honed the Lean Startup approach there. He’s now entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard, contributes regularly to Harvard Business Review, and has written the bestseller, The Lean Startup.
http://startuplessonslearned.com
http://hbr.org/search/Eric%20Ries/
John Mullins
John Mullins, a veteran of several entrepreneurial ventures, teaches and studies entrepreneurship and the management and financing of rapidly growing businesses at the London Business School, where he is Associate Professor of Management Practice and Chair in Entrepreneurship. He is the author of The New Business Road Test, which alerts entrepreneurs to 7 key areas that are likely cause failure, and has previously written Getting to Plan B with prolific venture capitalist, Randy Komisar. John has made great in-roads on behalf of entrepreneurs, both in business model innovation, and in addressing the misuse of business plans.
http://www.johnwmullins.com/
http://www.getting-to-plan-b.com/news_authors.html
http://hbr.org/search/John%20Mullins/
Alex Osterwalder
Author, Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder is the creator of the original Business Model Canvas, and author of Business Model Model Generation. He has established himself as a global thought-leader in business model design and innovation, based on a systematic and practical methodology to achieve business model innovation. Organizations that use his approach include 3M, Ericsson, IBM, Telenor, Capgemini, and Deloitte – and his recent collaborations with Steve Blank, creator of Customer Development, have created a balanced structure underlying the Lean Launch Pad course at Stanford.
Johanna Kollmann
UX Specialist, Sidekick Studios
Johanna Kollmann started her career in User Experience (UX) at Siemens in 2004 and has since gained experience in both in-house and agency-side roles. In London, she worked at Flow Interactive and Vodafone, then as Senior UX Consultant at EMC Consulting and has now moved to the startup world as UX Specialist at Sidekick Studios.
Johanna has been a key connector between UX and Lean Startup in the London scene, sharing and creating a number of bridges in her roles as founder of Design Jam and Balanced Team.
http://johannakoll.posterous.com/
Antonio Terreno
Developer, Forward Internet & Invisible Hand
Antonio’s founded a number of startups, then worked as Senior Consultant at Thoughtworks to move to a software development role at Forward Internet, at the helm of their Invisibile Hand service. Antonio knows his way around the perils of startups and the wonders of big data.
http://www.the-arm.com/
http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/
http://forward.co.uk
Daniel Tenner
Founder, GrantTree
Daniel is the creator of Swombat.com, the “Daring Fireball” of actionable startup advice. Through Swombat.com, Daniel is a constant contributor to the startup community, consistently creating actionable summaries of the world’s leading startup blogs. He covers a range of Lean Startup leaders, including Eric Ries and Steve Blank, and also digs into precursor approaches like Hypothesis-driven Development. He’s also founder of GrantTree, which was created to help startups and small businesses take advantage of the UK’s unique tax breaks for startups.
http://swombat.com
http://granttree.co.uk
Devin Hunt
Founder, Lyst
Devin’s a founder of Lyst and former co-founder of YC-backed Habit Industries with Rob Fitzpatrick. At Lyst, Devin applied Lean Startup principles in a fashion startup, getting traction with MVPs in a design-focused market.
http://www.hailpixel.com/
http://ly.st
Joseph Wilk
Developer, Songkick
Contributor, Cucumber
Joseph Wilk is a member of the core development team for Cucumber. He has been developing for the web for 11 years in both big and small companies and as an entrepreneur. Having more fun than is healthy working as a Software Gardener building web systems and working on open source projects.
Sjors Timmer
Founder, UXDO
User Experience Designer, Sapient Nitro
Sjors has a background in designing for financial services, social networks and e-commerce – with start-ups and at agencies. He created and curates the UXDO series of workshops, which help people progress their UX skills, giving workshops on topics like paper prototyping, tackling complex user problems and copywriting for usability.
http://notura.com/
https://twitter.com/#!/uxdo
Rob Fitzpatrick
Founder, The Startup Toolkit
Eze Vidra
Strategic Partnerships Development Manager, Google
Founder, VC Cafe
On top of blogging at VCCafe.com, Eze is a Strategic Partnerships Development Manager at Google London, responsible for the launch of Google Shopping Spain and establishing business relationships in the commerce space across EMEA. Most recently, Eze was the Principal Product Manager of AOL Search in Europe, leading a team responsible for the user experience, monetization and distribution of AOL’s search across 18 European markets and 30 online properties. Before moving to London, Eze was a senior product manager at Ask.com in San Francisco, Product Manager at Gerson Lehrman Group in New York and team leader at Shopping.com.
Carlos Eduardo Espinal
Partner, Seedcamp
As Partner, Carlos co-manages Seedcamp. His investment focus is on mobile, gaming, and networking technologies.
Prior to Seedcamp, Carlos was a venture capitalist at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, an early stage investment firm based in London where he worked with portfolio companies Flirtomatic and Mobango.
http://thedrawingboard.me/
http://seedcamp.com
Salim Virani
Founder, Leancamp
Salim Virani ‘Sal’ started in web technology in 1996 and has since founded a number of startups, ranging from technical service providers to consumer e-commerce sites, and a digital media department for a major advertising agency. In 2010 he co-founded Leancamp, and has been actively growing the community internationally. Salim now works with a few startups and entrepreneurs, including Alex Osterwalder, the author of Business Model Generation, progressing and sharing the approaches arising from Leancamp events.
Dan Hill
Dan’s the tech founder of Crashpadder, a short-let marketplace and rapidly-growing community of travelers and vacationers. He’s used cohort analysis at Crashpadder to really focus their learning, and to ensure their accelerating growth. And he’s done it using just Google Analytics!
http://crashpadder.com
http://danhilltech.tumblr.com/
