Hands-on CXX. 30+ year entrepreneur and technologist, blend of consumer and enterprise experience; deep passion for engaging directly with customers and building businesses that solve for multiple bottom-lines (financial, human, social, natural), with a special focus on products, customers, and systemic change; a key role in four exits (Rhithm,
Food on the Table,
Five Runs,
Sapling Learning); work featured in Lean Startup by Eric Ries, Running Lean by Ash Maurya.
FiveRuns at RailsConf/CabooseConf and taking folks to see Penn & Teller
Attending RailsConf and/or CabooseConf? Join FiveRuns to see Penn & Teller perform at the Rio on Tuesday night.
We’ve got transportation and 40 tickets to catch Penn & Teller at the Rio on Tuesday night. Want to join us? Drop your name in the… hat. Okay, it’s not a hat, but you get the idea.
Enter your name before 8am Tuesday morning; winners will be notified by 10am via email.
See you in Las Vegas!
Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step
O’Reilly and Eric Ries are doing an interesting webcast - Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step. Having recently waded into this end of the pool - I’m getting a lot out of the whole lean startup idea. No great surprise, since it extends what I’m familiar with, from within product development, to all the streams of work that makes up a startup
Intriguing (and radical) approach on how to operate a business
Check out “The Open Company - Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project. It describes a radical approach (at least from my POV) on how to operate a business. I’m not a business operations person, so I don’t have the chops to completely evaluate the proposition here ahead of time. However, there are some intrigiung ideas in this article and I love where this could lead (not to mention the potential to upset the apple cart).