Local entrepreneurs take in the 2012 Lean Startup simulcast from IA offices at Winrock International in Little Rock just after lunch on Monday.
It’s not too late to watch a simulcast of the 2012 Lean Startup Conference with fellow entrepreneurs and Innovate Arkansas advisors from IA’s Winrock offices in Little Rock.
IA is hosting an Arkansas-exclusive simulcast of the third-annual event, taking place all day Monday and Tuesday in San Francisco. The simulcast is being held in the Gary Greene Conference Room at Winrock International’s Little Rock corporate headquarters on Riverfront Drive.
It may be too late to grab a free lunch, but some free knowledge…now that’s on the menu til this thing wraps up at 8 tonight (plus they have some extra boxed lunches from Jimmy’s in the frig).
Attendees have steadily come and gone all day, filling the place at lunch.
Among the morning speakers was Todd Park, CTO for the federal government. Among the afternoon speakers were Andres Glusman of Meetup and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, who invested in IA client TTAGG.
Among the day’s revelations is this nugget: The biggest company to use the Lean Startup model? N0ne other than GE. Eric Ries started the Lean Startup approach, and the movement really got going a couple of years ago. Ries’ 2011 book, The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, was widely anticipated.
The goal of Lean Startup is to transform how products are built and launched by being more innovative and less wasteful.
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