The Alchemist Series is excited to present 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...
[read more] The Alchemist Series is excited to present 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. Schedule: Tuesdays, March 13 to April 10, 6:30 to 8:30 pm Location: Citrix Startup Accelerator Labs 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. Customer Development and Metrics Course 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 more information, please visit our website or email us at info@alchemistseries.com *Although this course is meant to be taken together as a series, registration is available for individual lectures on a limited basis. Please visit our organizer page at http://www.thealchemistseries.eventbrite.com for more info. * Volunteers: Please email jin@alchemistseries.com for more information. Volunteers agree to 20hrs of volunteer work which may include setup, registration, and technical assistance. EVENT SPONSOR Community Partners Media Partners
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