The Alchemist Series: Customer Development w/ Alan Chiu, Seed Investor, X/Seed

The Alchemist Founder Primer Series:

Customer Development & Metrics Course

Presenting a five course introduction featuring the Valley's leading minds on Customer Development and Metrics.

Our rockstar line-up of guest instructors include Alan Chiu, Sean Ellis, Steve Blank, Catherine Courage and Hiten Shah. Join us at the Citrix Startup Accelerator labs after hours and bring your... [read more]

The Alchemist Founder Primer Series:

Customer Development & Metrics Course

Presenting a five course introduction featuring the Valley's leading minds on Customer Development and Metrics.

Our rockstar line-up of guest instructors include Alan Chiu, Sean Ellis, Steve Blank, Catherine Courage and Hiten Shah. Join us at the Citrix Startup Accelerator labs after hours and bring your co-founder. There will be a structured weekly course wrapped around these lectures, with the intent to walk entrepreneurs through a short and intense customer development process on your ventures. Learn from successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders, get tactical and get moving. This is the initial course in a primer to accelerate seed stage ventures.

Moderated by:

Ravi Belani will be the moderator of these courses. He is the co-instructor of Stanford's Entrepreneurship Survey Course "The Spirit of Entrepreneurship" with Heidi Roizen. He is an advisor and seed investor in startups, including Komli, Justin.TV, Badgeville, Ondeego, Redux, and Booshaka. Ravi formerly spent six years as part of the internet investment team at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where he led investments and served as a board member or observer on numerous companies, including Pubmatic, Vizu, and Yield Software.

Course Schedule: Tuesdays, March 13 to April 10, 6:30 to 8:30 pm Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Alan Chiu, Seed Investor, X/Seed,

"Customer Development: Improving Your Product to What People Would Pay For"

http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanchiu

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Catherine Courage, VP User Experience, Citrix Systems, "Using Design to Inspire Disruptive Thinking"

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/catherine-courage/0/851/b81

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Sean Ellis, Founder / CEO, CatchFree, First Marketing Executive at Dropbox, Eventbrite, Xobni, "Startup Marketing Strategies to Drive Authentic Growth"

http://www.linkedin.com/in/seanellis

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Steve Blank, Lecturer, Stanford University,

"The Startup Owners Manual - Cracking the Code of Entrepreneurship"

http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveblank

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Hiten Shah, CEO, KissMetrics,

"Demand Creation: Metric-Driven Strategies for Success"

http://www.linkedin.com/in/hnshah

For course registration please visit our Eventbrite page.

For more information, please visit our website or email us at info@alchemistseries.com

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