Mailing List Archive
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| New 2012 Chicago Lean Startup Challenge - Preview not available | Joe Miller | May 25, 2012 |
| The Chicago Lean Startup Circle Wants to Set You Up On A HOT DATE! - Preview not available | Bernhard Kappe | May 8, 2012 |
| Enterprise Forum Chicago - 2012 White Board Challenge Call for Entries - Preview not available | Bernhard Kappe | May 4, 2012 |
| Lean Innovation in the Enterprise: How Large Enterprises are Applying Lean Startup Principles to Improve Innovation Outcomes - Preview not available | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 29, 2012 |
| The Lean Startup Machine is Headed to Chicago - Preview not available | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 27, 2012 |
| Important Details for tomorrow's meetup: Lean Startups Invade 1871 - Preview not available | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 18, 2012 |
| Meetup details changed: Lean Startups Invade 1871 - Preview not available | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 17, 2012 |
| Lean Startups Invade 1871 - Todd and were just over visiting 1871 on Tuesday, getting ready for our meeting next Thursday . You are going to love the space. You're also going to love what our three speakers hav | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 12, 2012 |
| Tell Your Lean Startup Story at 1871 on April 19th. - Our Chicago Lean Startup Circle has been around for about 2 years now. We've been bringing in speakers from all over to talk about their lessons learned. Our April 19th Meetup will be our first at 1871. We'd like to kick off our | Bernhard Kappe | Mar 20, 2012 |
| Learn How to Find, Hire, and Retain A Players on Tuesday, March 13th at 6 PM - Hey Lean Startup Circle, Registration is now open for a Chicago Project Management Association Meetup that may inter | Bernhard Kappe | Mar 7, 2012 |
| Of Interest for Healthcare Startups: Pain Points for Hospitals wtih John Smole of Northwestern Memorial Hospital - Interested in hacking solutions for real pain points? Chicago Health Tech and Health 2.0 is organizing a meetup that articulates pain points and gaps experienced by large hospitals that can be easily solved with simple tech / software solutions. Presen | Bernhard Kappe | Feb 24, 2012 |
| Meetup date changed: Groupon: Using Lean Startup Principles to Manage Hypergrowth - Post IPO Update - For logistical reasons, we've changed the date for our next meetup from March 15th to March 29th. Groupon's Suneel Gupta will give a post IPO update to his talk "Using Lean Startup Principles to Manage Hypergrowth" | Bernhard Kappe | Feb 24, 2012 |
| Can You Help? TechWeek Session on Lean Startup Innovation Needs Your Votes - Hi Chicago Lean Startup Circle members, I submitted a Lean Startup session at TechWeek titled "Innovation in the Enterprise is Broken: Here's How to Fix It." Could you do me a big favor and vote for the session? Voting ends this Thursday at midnig | Bernhard Kappe | Feb 15, 2012 |
| Early Bird Dealine for the Lean Startup Machine Ends Today - The Chicago Lean Startup Machine is coming up at the end of next week, and the early bird discount ends today. It's an awesome way to work on your business model and learn how to apply lean startup thinking in a fun, collaborative environments. & | Bernhard Kappe | Jan 10, 2012 |
| Meetup location changed: Lean UX with LUXr's Lane Halley - Please note that we've changed the location of our next meetup to accomodate a larger audience: It's now at the ITA rather than at Pathfinder. It's a joint meeting with the Chicago Product Management Association, so between the two groups w | Bernhard Kappe | Jan 5, 2012 |
| Lean Startup Machine Chicago on January 20th - Dear Awesome Chicago Lean Startup Circle, Registration is now open for Lean Startup Machine Chicago from January 20 to January 22, 2012. >> | Bernhard Kappe | Jan 3, 2012 |
| Four Lean Startup Events for January - Welcome back from the holidays! January is a busy Lean Startup month, with no less than four Lean Startup related events. Here's what's going on: Lean UX at the Lean Startup Circle On January | Bernhard Kappe | Jan 3, 2012 |
| Next Lean Startup Circle: Lean UX with LUXr's Lane Halley - Lane Halley of LUXr, the Lean User Experience Company, will be joining us on January 12th from LA. To reserve your spot , RSVP here: | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 29, 2011 |
| SoapBox Wins the 2011 Chicago Lean Startup Challenge - SoapBox Wins It Congratulations to SoapBox , the winner of the first annual Chicago Lean Startup Challenge, for an excellent presentation and execution of the lean startup ideals. They'v | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 20, 2011 |
| Registration closes at 3:30 PM Today for the Chicago Lean Startup Challenge Finals - We're down to the last few hours. The four finalists are honing their pitches, the judges are sharpening their pencils, and the sponsors are opening their checkbooks. Will you be there? We're closing registration for the event at 3:30, so if you'd | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 15, 2011 |
| Last Minute Instructions: Chicago Lean Startup Challenge Finals: Four Finalists Pitch for $75,000 - Hi Fellow Chicago Lean Startup Members, The | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 14, 2011 |
| Two More Days Until We Crown a Lean Startup Challenge Champion - Who will be crowned the Lean Startup Champion, and collect $75,000 in cash and prizes? Come to the finals this Thursday, December 15, and watch the four finalist pitch to a panel of judges and a select audience of 250 e | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 13, 2011 |
| Finalists for Chicago Lean Startup Challenge Announced: Watch them Pitch for $75,000 Next Thursday - 146 teams have spent 10 weeks running experiments validating their business models and building their companies. Out of this group, we’ve picked the leanest, meanest startups to tell their story and | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 9, 2011 |
| The Chicago Lean Startup Challenge: Four Finalists Pitch for $75,000 - The Lean Startup Challenge as the opposite of a business plan competition. Instead of creating huge documents and proformas based on assumptions, contestants spend ten weeks making meaningful progress on their business based on real marke | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 6, 2011 |
| Code Academy Deadline, VentureSHOT Open House and Lean UX Workshop. - I wanted to let you know about a few key events happening over the next few weeks: Code Academy Application Deadline: December 10th. Code Academy launched their 12 week program for web development in Ruby on | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 4, 2011 |
| Reminder - Technori Pitch tomorrow, IP for Startups on Thursday - Just a quick reminder that the November Technori Pitch event is tomorrow, and there are only a few more seats left. You can sign up here: | Bernhard Kappe | Nov 28, 2011 |
| Meetup tomorrow: How To Do Customer Interviews + Lean Startup Challenge Semifinals - A quick reminder that tomorrow's meetup is at NAVTEQ, rather than at the ITA. We'll be talking about how to do customer interviews and announcing the semifinalists of the Lean Startup Challenge. | Bernhard Kappe | Nov 16, 2011 |
| Meetup location changed: Customer Interviews with Todd Wyder and Bernhard Kappe - We've changed the location of next thursday's meetup from the ITA to Navteq to accomodate more people. We'll be talking about customer interviews, and also announcing the semifinalists of the Chicago Lean Startup Challenge. For more detai | Bernhard Kappe | Nov 8, 2011 |
| Venue Change: Chicago VC Perspectives on Lean Startups - Due to a scheduling conflict at the ITA, we've moved this Thursday's meeting on Chicago VC Perspectives to Room 150 of the Arthur Rubloff Building at Northwestern's downtown campus. For more details, see the full listing: | Bernhard Kappe | Oct 24, 2011 |
| Chicago VC Perspectives on Lean Startups - Join us for an evening with investors from Lightbank and New World Ventures to talk about the inner workings of VC firms, what influences their investment decisions, and how lean startups can take advantage of that information. Our | Bernhard Kappe | Oct 14, 2011 |
| Two interesting talks: Moving from Free to Paid with 200,000 Users and Camp DevOps - There are a couple of events going on this next week that could be interesting for some of you: This Thursday, there's " Moving from Free to Paid When You Already Have 200,000 Users. " | Bernhard Kappe | Oct 10, 2011 |
| Another cool event next month: Entrepreneurs Unpluggd - One of our members, Tim Jahn, organizes an event called Entrepreneurs Unpluggd. The next one, in October, looks pretty good, so I thought I'd pass it along to you: Entrepreneurs Unpluggd: "Creating and Growing an Awesome Company Culture" | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 30, 2011 |
| Chicago Lean Startup Challenge Prizes up to $75,000, Deadline this Saturday - If you're still on the fence about joining the Chicago Lean Startup Challenge , we just got some news to get you off the fence. We just got a grant from a local foundation that brings our total of cash and pr | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 29, 2011 |
| Technori Pitch tomorrow - Thanks to all of you who made our evening with Eric Ries a success. For those of you who want more Chicago startup goodness this week, go check out Technori Pitch tomorrow: http://ww | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 26, 2011 |
| Five More Free Tickets to See Eric Ries (+ Free Parking) - Our friends (and lean startup members) at SpotHero have another promotion going. The next five people who sign up for Eric's talk and get parking through them will get their tickets and parking for free. Parking in the | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 20, 2011 |
| Lean Startup Members - How Many Jobs Did You Create This Year? - Thursday's meetup with Eric Ries , author of The Lean Startup , will be our biggest event of the year, with 400 to 500 attendees from our group, from Northwestern, | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 19, 2011 |
| Want to see Eric Ries speak for free? If you're fast, SpotHero will make it happen. - Our friends (and lean startup members) at SpotHero have a promotion going. The next five people who sign up for Eric's talk and get discount parking through them will get their tickets for free. Here's what you do: 1. Sign | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 14, 2011 |
| The Chicago Lean Startup Challenge: Now over $50,000 in Cash and Prizes for Lean Startups - On Friday we announced the Chicago Lean Startup Challenge , a new kind of startup competition that's based on applying the lean startup approach to get your startup off the ground and moving in the right direction. | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 14, 2011 |
| Discount parking for Lean Startup event with Eric Ries through SpotHero - Thanks to Jeremy and the rest of the fine folks at Chicago Lean Startup Circle member company SpotHero , those of you who are driv | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 12, 2011 |
| Chicago Lean Startup Challenge: Win Cash and Prizes to Accelerate Your New Venture - Win Cash and Prizes to Accelerate Your New Venture! Do you have an innovative idea that you want to bring to market? Have you been thinking and reading about Lean Startups, but need a push to get you going? Well, now is the time to enter th | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 9, 2011 |
| September 22nd, Live in Chicago: A Conversation with Eric Ries - Join us on Thursday, September 22nd for a Conversation with Eric Ries. Crown Books is releasing Eric Ries' book Th | Bernhard Kappe | Sep 6, 2011 |
| September Meetup: A Conversation with Eric Ries - Join us on Thursday, September 22nd for a conversation with Eric Ries. To reserve your spot, sign up today. Crown Books is releasing Eric Ries' book The Lean Star | Bernhard Kappe | Aug 30, 2011 |
| This Thursday: Matt Moog of Viewpoints and Built In Chicago - Our featured speaker is Matt Moog, CEO of Viewpoints and Founder of Built In Chicago, and former President and CEO of publicly traded Q. Interactive. He's got great experience leading startups to success at different stages, and is reall | Bernhard Kappe | Aug 16, 2011 |
| Next Thursday: Matt Moog of Viewpoints and Built In Chicago - Please join us next Thursday at the ITA for the August Lean Startup Circle. Our featured speaker is Matt Moog, CEO of Viewpoints and Founder of Built In Chicago, and former President and CEO of publicly traded Q. Interactive. He's got gr | Bernhard Kappe | Aug 9, 2011 |
| Code Academy is Live: 12 Week Intensive Ruby on Rails Training - A lot of members have expressed frustration finding developers or technical cofounders. Two of our members, Neal Sales-Griffin and Mike McGee have started something that might help: Code Academy, a 12 week program that teaches people to build web | Bernhard Kappe | Aug 8, 2011 |
| The Next Two Meetups: Matt Moog and Eric Ries - We've got a great lineup over the next two months: Matt Moog of Viewpoints and Built In Chicago | Bernhard Kappe | Aug 3, 2011 |
| Last Chance to Register: Kissmetrics Founder and Lean Startup Expert Hiten Shah this Sunday - If you're going to Sunday's Lean Startup Circle with Hiten Shah at Techweek, you need to do so by noon tomorrow. The folks at Tech Week are asking us to get our list of attendees in | Bernhard Kappe | Jul 21, 2011 |
| Hiten Shah, Dave McClure, and the CTO of the United States? Read on. - The big two weeks are here: Techweek, Spark Chicago, Lean Startup Circle, and a smorgasbord of other events. Let's start with our own event: Hiten Shah, Kissmetrics Founder, Lean Startup and Metrics Expert | Bernhard Kappe | Jul 19, 2011 |
| Help the Chicago Lean Startup Circle by filling out a survey. - Could you help us and the Chicago tech community out by filling out the Illinois Entrepreneurial Index survey? Built in Chicago, the Chicagoland entrepreneurial center and a few other groups have put together the Illinois Entrepr | Bernhard Kappe | Jul 13, 2011 |
| Talking Innovation and Intrapreneurship with Allscripts, Allstate, Alcatel Lucent and Wheels, Inc. - Hi fellow Lean Startup Circle members - there are a lot of cool things going on as part of Techweek later this month, including this panel I'm moderating that will touch on lean startup principles applied to the enterprise: One of the exciting | Bernhard Kappe | Jul 12, 2011 |
| Next Meetup: Learn from Kissmetrics Founder and Lean Startup Expert Hiten Shah - A reminder that our next lean startup meetup is on Sunday, July 24th at the Merchandise Mart. We're very excited to have Hiten Shah, Founder and CEO of KissMetrics speak at our Ju | Bernhard Kappe | Jul 12, 2011 |
| Slides from last week's Lean User Experience talk - A number of folks requested that we put up the slides from last week's Lean UX talk at the Lean Startup Circle. Here they are: http://p | Bernhard Kappe | Jul 6, 2011 |
| Learn from Kissmetrics Founder and Lean Startup Expert Hiten Shah at the Next Chicago Lean Startup Circle - We're very excited to have Hiten Shah, Founder and CEO of KissMetrics speak at our July meetup. For those of you who've never heard Hiten speak, you are in for a treat. He's known as a | Bernhard Kappe | Jul 5, 2011 |
| Piloting a Space Apart's mobile app for Thursday's Lean UX meeting - Many of you know Jason Goodrich, one of our members and founder of A Space Apart. His company is currently in Excelerate Labs and they're making great progress. We'd like to pilot the app for this | Bernhard Kappe | Jun 28, 2011 |
| Join the Lean Startup Group In Built in Chicago - Have you joined Built in Chicago yet? For those of you who aren't aware of it, a group of Chicago tech leaders started an online community called Built in Chicago , ( | Bernhard Kappe | Jun 23, 2011 |
| The Lean Startup Summer Lineup - The Chicago Lean Startup Circle has a lot of events coming up this Summer. Here's what we have in store: June: Lean User Experience on Ju | Bernhard Kappe | Jun 21, 2011 |
| Next Wednesday: Bootstrappers Breakfast - One of my favorite events each month is Bootstrappers Breakfast, where entrepreneurs get together to discuss the issues they are currently facing. I always get something of value from these breakfasts. If you've never gone to one, give it a | Bernhard Kappe | Jun 15, 2011 |
| Next Lean Startup Event: Lean User Experience - User experience is critical to adoption and use of many software products, but the way ux is practiced tends to slow down a project, which is death to a startup. Lean UX changes the dynamic to fit the lean startup approach | Bernhard Kappe | Jun 14, 2011 |
Workshop Reminder: Customer Acquisition with Lean Startup Marketing next Friday - A reminder that Todd and I are teaching workshop on lean startup marketing next Friday. We currently have six spots left. Click here to register: http://www.leanbuildingblocks. com/
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Bernhard Kappe | Jun 2, 2011 |
| Monday 5/23 - Startup Lessons Learned Simulcast - | Ken Kunz | May 20, 2011 |
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Next Week: Mike Sands of BrightTag and Orbitz: Lessons Learned with Two Chicago Startups - A reminder that next week, Mike Sands, CEO of BrightTag and former CMO and COO at Orbitz, will share lessons learned in his startup career. You can sign up here: http://www.chicagoleanstartup.com/events/17558747/
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Bernhard Kappe | May 17, 2011 |
| Milestones for Chicago Lean Startup Circle members in 2011? - I'm giving a talk at the Michigan Lean Startup Conference this Thursday, and will be touching on some of the milestones our member companies have reached. If you have some you'd like to share, I'd love to hear about them. Here are a fe | Bernhard Kappe | May 16, 2011 |
| New Meetup: Mike Sands of BrightTag and Orbitz: Lessons Learned with Two Chicago Startups - Announcing a new Meetup for Chicago Lean Startup Circle! What : Mike Sands of BrightTag and Orbitz: Lessons Learned with Two Chicago Startups When | Bernhard Kappe | May 5, 2011 |
| Video and Slides from Marketing in a Lean Startup - The video and slides for last month's talk on Marketing in a Lean Startup are up . You can see them here: | Bernhard Kappe | May 2, 2011 |
| Help Chicago Lean Startup Circle Crack 1000 - Invite a Friend - Fellow Chicago Lean Startup Circle Members. As of this afternoon, we have 992 members. I'd love to have 1000 members by Tomorrow's meeting. If you've gotten value from the group and would like recommend us to people you know, now woul | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 20, 2011 |
| This Thursday: Marketing in a Lean Startup - Marketing is the lifeblood of any organization, but there are so many aspects of it, that it can be really confusing. How does it fit in with the Lean Startup approach? When should you start marketing, and how? Where do you start? | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 18, 2011 |
| Next Thursday: Marketing in a Lean Startup - Marketing is the lifeblood of any organization, but there are so many aspects of it, that it can be really confusing. How does it fit in with the Lean Startup approach? When should you start marketing, and how? Where do you start? | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 13, 2011 |
| Marketing stories from Lean Startups - Hi, For those of you who took the survey , we really appreciate your input. If you haven't, please take a few minutes to help guide the fu | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 11, 2011 |
| Lean Startup Survey - Please Help - Hi, We are working hard to plan great Lean Startup Circle events for the group and would love your input. Could you please take a moment and fill out a brief survey to help us know what you would like to know at | Bernhard Kappe | Apr 7, 2011 |
| We need your input for the Chicago Lean Startup Circle - Hi, We are working hard to plan great Lean Startup Circle programming for the group and would love your input. Could you please take a moment and fill out a brief survey to help us know what you would like to know at | Todd Wyder | Apr 6, 2011 |
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Revised Reminder: Early Bird for Lean Building Blocks Startup Classes ends April 1st. - The Lean Building Blocks Startup Classes that Todd Wyder and I are teaching are filling up, and early bird registration ends April 1st. You can register here: http://www.leanbuildingblocks.com
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Reminder: Early Bird for Lean Building Blocks Startup Classes ends April 1st. - The Lean Building Blocks Startup Classes that Todd Wyder and I are teaching are filling up, and early bird registration ends April 1st. You can register here: http://wwwleanbuildingblocks.com
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Bernhard Kappe | Mar 29, 2011 |
| More on Lean Building Blocks classes, including early bird discount code - At the last lean startup circle meeting, Todd announced Lean Building Blocks , a series of courses that he and I are offering to provide practical, hands on training in lean startup methods to | Bernhard Kappe | Mar 22, 2011 |
| Slides from Ira Weiss talk and links for Lean Building Blocks startup classes - A number of you requested we post the slides from last night's talk and provide the url for the lean startup classes Todd and I will be giving. We put the slides up on Slideshare. Here's the link: | Bernhard Kappe | Mar 18, 2011 |
| March Madness followed by Angels and Lean Startups with Hyde Park Angels' Ira Weiss - The last email got mangled, so here goes again: TechNexus is opening the conference space during the day tomorrow to watch March Madness - food, networking, co-working, strong wireless network available. If you want to come early before the Me | Bernhard Kappe | Mar 16, 2011 |
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Mach Madness followed by Angels and Lean Startups with Hyde Park Angels' Ira Weiss - I've updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing: http://www.chicagoleanstartup.com/events/15611803/ When : Thursday, March 17, 2011 6:3
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Bernhard Kappe | Mar 16, 2011 |
| Angels and Lean Startups with Hyde Park Angels' Ira Weiss - What do Tap.Me, Edulender, HoneyApps and FeeFighters have in common? 
Funding from Hyde Park Angels in the last six months. The group of angel investors, associated with the University of Chicago's Polsky Center for Entreprenuership, is really ste | Bernhard Kappe | Mar 8, 2011 |
| Mobile Mondays Chicago - Turbocharge your App Sales - Todd Wyder and I will be talking at Mobile Mondays Chicago next Tuesday (because Monday is a holiday) If mobile is part of your business strategy, this could be of interest to you. You can sign up here: | Bernhard Kappe | Feb 16, 2011 |
| Can you learn from two successful startup exits? Join us this Thursday to find out. - Hi fellow Lean Startup Circle Members. Here's a reminder that we're meeting this Thursday at the ITA. George Deeb, who has piloted successful Chicago startups, iExplore and MediaRecall, will be joining us to share his lessons learned. To si | Bernhard Kappe | Feb 15, 2011 |
| An Entrepreneur's Journey with George Deeb this Thursday at the Chicago Lean Startup Circle - Hi fellow Chicago Lean Startup Circle members. Please join us this Thursday for our monthly meeting. Our guest will be George Deeb, a Chicago entrepreneurial success story who spearheaded iExplore and MediaRecall. At this months meeting George will shar | Bernhard Kappe | Feb 14, 2011 |
| Re: [Chicago-Lean-Startup-Circle] How much equity should I give?...and at what rate? - omg so useful. thanks! On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Ryan Schultz < [address removed] > wrote: | Mischa | Feb 9, 2011 |
| How much equity should I give?...and at what rate? - If you're in an early stage startup, as I am, you've probably grappled with these same questions. Although I, by no means, have the exhaustive answer or even the best or correct one, I wanted to share the following spreadsheets, that I put together | Ryan Schultz | Feb 9, 2011 |
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An Entrepreneur's Journey: George Deeb of iExplore and MediaRecall - Join me Thursday, February 17th at The Illinois Technology Association for the Chicago Lean Startup Circle meetup. http://www.chicagoleanstartup.com/events/15611766/
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Bernhard Kappe | Feb 9, 2011 |
| Chicago Product Management Association Presents: Joy McCaffrey on Talking to Customers - Hi fellow Chicago Lean Startup members, the Chicago Product Management Association is having a meeting that might be interesting to you on Thursday the 10th. At this chiPMA Meeting, Joy McCaffrey will discuss the most optimal methods of talking | Bernhard Kappe | Feb 8, 2011 |
| Job openings mentioned at last week's Lean Startup Circle - At last week's event, we had a number of folks who were looking for help: Braintree, a payment processing company and one of the fastest growing company is looking for a Chief Operations Officer: | Bernhard Kappe | Jan 25, 2011 |
| Reminder: Inside the Incubator with Excelerate Labs, Techstars and YCombinator this Thursday - Just a quick reminder that the next Lean Startup meeting is coming up this Thursday, with a moderated panel with alumni of YCombinator, Techstars and Excelerate Labs incubators. To RSVP, sign up | Bernhard Kappe | Jan 18, 2011 |
| Video of Todd's talk on Customer Acquisition and Retention + More on Next Week's Incubator Panel - A number of you have requested a video of Todd's talk on Customer Acquisition and retention from last month. We've posted it up on vimeo : | Bernhard Kappe | Jan 10, 2011 |
| Monetizing Freemium and Open Source Business Models - talk at ChiPMA - Hi fellow Chicago Lean Startup members, the Chicago Product Management Association is having a meeting that might be interesting to you on Thursday the 13th. At this ChiPMA Meeting, | Bernhard Kappe | Jan 7, 2011 |
| January Meetup: YCombinator, Techstars and Excelerate Labs: Inside the Incubator - Want to find out what it's like to participate in YCombinator, Techstars or Excelerate Labs? Join us at 6:30 on January 20th at the ITA to find out. We'll be joined by Techstars Alumnus and Ha | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 20, 2010 |
| Presentation for Todd Wyder's Talk on Customer Acquisition and Retention Now Up on Slideshare. - Thanks to all who attended. We put Todd's presentation up on Slideshare . I also put up the | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 19, 2010 |
| Join me at the Bootstrappers Breakfast on December 29th. - Bootstrappers Breakfast is a great group. Griffin Caprio runs the Chicago chapter that meets for Breakfast on the 4th Wednesday of every month. It's a group of founders of early stage technology startups comparing notes on operational, development and bu | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 13, 2010 |
| Tech the Halls holiday party this Saturday - Hey everyone, just wanted to send a quick note to invite you to Jelly Chicago's 3rd annual Tech The Halls holiday party this weekend (12/11). With over 180 RSVPs so far and over 15 sponsors from the local tech community, it's shaping u | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 8, 2010 |
| Request from Patrick Vlaskovits - intro to Jason Fried? - Patrick Vlaskovits, our speaker from the November meetup and author of the Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development is putting on a conference in Los Angeles. He asked me if anyone in our group knows Jason Fried from 37 Signals well and could make an | Bernhard Kappe | Dec 5, 2010 |
| Pathfinder’s Todd Wyder on Customer Acquisition and Retention: Know Your Cohorts. - Excelerate Labs Troy Henikoff tells us that Customer Acquisition and Retention is one of the biggest keys to startup success. And GrubHubs Mike Evans writes that in GrubHubs recent $11 million dollar fundraising effort, every single investor | Bernhard Kappe | Nov 30, 2010 |
| Questions for our VC speaker on Thursday? - Do you have questions for our speaker on Thursday, Carl Ledbetter of Pelion Ventures? Send them my way. How Lean Entrepreneurs Can Attract | Bernhard Kappe | Nov 14, 2010 |
| Customer Development vs. Pragmatic Marketing Throwdown at the Chicago Product Management Association - Todd Wyder and I will be doing a debate on the relative merits of customer development and pragmatic marketing this Thursday. I'll be championing the Lean Startup/Customer Development approach (we drew straws and I won.) Come on by the Pathfin | Bernhard Kappe | Nov 8, 2010 |
| Slides from Brant and Patricks Talk - For those of you who missed it, the Lean Startups - The Basics presentation from Thursday is up on Slideshare. | Bernhard Kappe | Nov 8, 2010 |
| RE: [Chicago-Lean-Startup-Circle] Check out Technori, celebrating Chicago entrepreneurs - Preview not available | Dwaine Leavell | Nov 8, 2010 |
| Check out Technori, celebrating Chicago entrepreneurs - Preview not available | Eduardo Fernandez | Nov 8, 2010 |
| Re: [Chicago-Lean-Startup-Circle] We need your vote! - Preview not available | Fred Ballard | Nov 5, 2010 |
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