Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller: “The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business”.

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has consulted to new and established companies as well as venture capital firms.

In 2015, he ran a Kickstarter campaign to produce The Leader’s Guide, which went on to become one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time.

In 2010, he was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and is currently an IDEO Fellow. Previously he co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup.

BusinessWeek have named him one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech & he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership.

The Lean Startup methodology has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review,Inc. (where he appeared on the cover), Wired, Fast Company, and countless blogs.

Eric lives in San Francisco.

Speech Topics Include:

• The Lean Startup Methodology
  Most new businesses fail. But most of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach to business that’s being adopted around the world. It is changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, the Lean Startup approach relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, and a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress, and learn what customers really want.

• Why Today’s Companies Should Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radical Success
• Building the minimum viable product
• Evangelizing the Lean Startup
• Why Today’s Companies Should Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radical Success