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SUMMARY:Lean Crossroad: Lean Startup + Internet + Entrepreneurship
DESCRIPTION:The Lean Crossroad:\n\nLean Startup + Internet + Entrepreneurship\n\nClick on link below to register on Eventbrite:\n\nhttp://leanstartup2012june11.eventbrite.com/ #leanXvan\n\nGoldcorp Centre for the Arts / SFU    149 West Hastings Street Vancouver\,     British Columbia V6B 1H4       Canada\nMonday\, June 11\, 2012 from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM (PT)\nSpeakers will focus on:\n\n	Lean Startup\n	Lean Financing\n	Lean Entrepreneurship\n\n[Speakers]\n\n\n\nDan Martell [@danmartell] is the co-founder of Clarity.fm a startup that enables anyone to get paid for their advice. Previously he co-founded www.Flowtown.com\, a social marketing platform for small businesses\, that was acquired by DemandForce.com.\n\nAn award-winning Canadian entrepreneur\, at 25\, Dan 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. Now living in San Francisco\, Martell spends the majority of his time looking at ways to build a bridge between Silicon Valley and his home province of New Brunswick\, Canada. As an angel investor\, he’s invested in over 15 companies\, advising them on how to leverage social marketing to acquire customers. Martell is passionately involved in facilitating micro-lending to entrepreneurs in developing countries through the non-profit\, Kiva.org.\n\n \n\n\n\nDr. Boris Wertz [@bwertz] is one of the leading tech angel investors in North-America and the founder and CEO of w media ventures. His portfolio encompasses over 30 early-stage consumer internet\, SaaS and mobile companies\, including Chloe & Isabel\, Edmodo\, Flurry\, GoInstant\, Indochino\, Suite101\, Sparkbuy (acquired by Google)\, Summify (acquired by Twitter)\, Wattpad and Yapta.\n\nHe is also a venture partner with Acton Capital\, a late-stage consumer internet fund\, and one of the founders of GrowLab\, a Vancouver-based start-up accelerator. Previously\, Boris was the Chief Operating Officer of AbeBooks\, the world’s largest marketplace for books which sold to Amazon in 2008. Boris joined AbeBooks in 2002 after JustBooks\, the company he co-founded in 1999\, was acquired by the company.\n\nHe successfully finished his PhD as well as his graduate studies at the Otto Beisheim School of Management (WHU)\, Koblenz\, majoring in Business Economics / Business Management. Boris was named the Pacific Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award winner (2005)\, a Top 40 under 40 nominee by Business in Vancouver (2011) and BC Angel Of the Year (2011). Living in Vancouver with his wife Luisa and his two children\, he loves the outdoors\, reading and traveling.\n\n \n\nDavid Ulevitch [@davidu] is the founder and CEO of OpenDNS\, the world’s largest DNS and security organization\, today making the Internet safer for more than 30 million people around the world.\n\nA 2011 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and a Business Week Magazine “Most Promising Entrepreneur Under 30\,” Ulevitch and his company have single-handedly changed the way Internet security is handled around the globe\, allowing a less-invasive and more cost effective approach that facilitates access while eliminating harmful phishing\, malware\, botnets and other nefarious Internet activity not just on laptops and computers but on all devices connecting to a wireless network.\n\nAs a seasoned technologist and renowned security and DNS expert\, Ulevitch is looked to as a thought leader by technology professionals in the United States and around the world. Ulevitch is a 2004 graduate of Washington University and holds a degree in Anthropology.\n\n \n\n\n\nStephen Jagger [@sjagger] is an author and an entrepreneur that has been starting businesses since high school. He is currently involved in 4 businesses. Ubertor.com is a real estate software company that provides websites and online marketing tools to thousands of real estate agents across North America. Reachd.com is a training company that focuses on marketing professionals and businesses that are interested in learning more about search engine optimization\, blogging\, online video\, Google Adwords and social media. The 3rd is OutsourcingThingsDone.com which provides high level outsourced personnel to business owners and managers across North America. His newest venture is PayrollHero.com\, “Optimizing work productivity with Happiness”.\n\nStephen has been covered in many major publications including The Vancouver Sun\, The Wall Street Journal\, The Ottawa Citizen\, The Vancouver Courier\, The Calgary Herald plus many more.\n\n[Special Appearance]\n\n\n\n[*Via Live Video]\n\nEric Ries [@ericries] is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007\, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups\, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups\, companies\, and venture capital firms. In 2010\, he became an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School.\n\nHe is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press\, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity\, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash\, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com\, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.
URL:https://www.immigrantbusinessbc.ca/event/lean-crossroad-lean-startup-internet-entrepreneurship/
LOCATION:Goldcorp Centre for the Arts\, 149 West Hastings Street \, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 1H4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Business Development,Business Education,Guest Speaker,Networking
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