DFW Lean January 5, 2011Monthly Meeting @dfwlean#dfwleanwww.dfwlean.com The January DFW Lean meeting will be held at CoHabitat. Join us as we feature a Q&A session with Eric Ries, who will join us via Skype. Eric Ries 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... [read more]

DFW Lean January 5, 2011Monthly Meeting @dfwlean#dfwleanwww.dfwlean.com The January DFW Lean meeting will be held at CoHabitat. Join us as we feature a Q&A session with Eric Ries, who will join us via Skype. Eric Ries 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. He 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.  The Q & A will be followed by an opportunity to network with fellow entrepreneurs and lean startup enthusiasts at the premier Dallas coworking space, CoHabitat. Agenda: 1. Welcome and intro   2.  Q & A with Eric Ries via Skype 3. Networking The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. Thank you our founding sponsor: CoHabitat (@cohabitat)