Speakers & Mentors

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  Cheryl Yeoh
  Reclip.it
  Cheryl is the Co-founder and CEO of Reclip.It, the best way to discover coupons and deals that matter to you. Cheryl currently mentors at The Founder Institute in NYC and Singapore, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lean Startup Machine Weekend. Prior to Reclip.It, she founded CityPockets in 2010 and has raised almost $1M in seed funding.
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  Gagan Biyani
  Udemy
  Gagan co-founded Udemy.com, a marketplace for online education. While there, he raised the company's $4 million in funding and led the marketing team to $2 million of sales in the first 1.5 years.
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  Rob Fan
  Sharethrough
  Rob co-founded and currently leads product and technology strategy for Sharethrough. He is a practitioner, student and teacher of the “lean startup” methodology. In his spare time, Rob, hacks and plays with new technology and advises early-stage startups about the successes and pitfalls he has learned thus far.
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  Diane Loviglio
  Mozilla
  Diane is a UX Researcher and Resident Mentor at 500 Startups. She's worked for technology, consumer web and healthcare startups such as Authentic8, Bombfell, Bump, Cisco, Dividely, Foodspotting, Giftly, Mozilla, Sanofi-Aventis, Splunk, The Freelancers Union and VMware. She co-founded her first startup (Wattbot) in 2007. Diane received her Bachelor of Humanities and Arts in Architecture and Anthropology from Carnegie Mellon University.
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  Jason Evanish
  KISSmetrics.com
  Jason has been doing customer development for over 3 years working at and consulting for startups as well as working on his own. He currently runs product at KISSmetrics.com
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  Mark Chasse
  Desk.com
  Mark has been using 'Lean' methodologies as a Product Manager since before the term was in vogue and has had great results. Mark has worked at a number of startups, been employee #1 twice, and recently failed as a first time Founder.
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  Zach Nies
  Rally Software
  Zach is CTO of Rally Software, the collaboration platform that allows companies to build great products faster with Agile and Lean practices. Prior to joining Rally, Zach was co-founder of a startup that radically changed how creative professionals managed projects. His company was acquired by publicly-traded Creo, Inc., now a division of Kodak. Before that he served as Chief Software Architect at Quark.
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  Parker Thompson
  Pivotal Labs
  Parker is the Director of Business Development at Pivotal Labs.
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  Simon Marcus
  The Library Corporation
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  David Bland
  Big Visible
  David joined his first startup out of college and helped scale it to a $13mil acquisition in 2006. Now he mentors organizations on lean techniques to create space for disruptive innovation.
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  Scott Allison
  Teamly
  Scott is the cofounder & CEO of Teamly, which was in the Summer accelerator batch at 500 Startups. He's a serial entrepreneur from the UK with background in telecoms and ecommerce.
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  Jabe Bloom
  The Library Corporation
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  Michele Battelli
  Google
  Michele brings over 15 years of experience in wireless networks and enterprise software. He also founded two startups and lead business projects in emerging markets.
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  Aaron Schwartz
  Modify Watches
  Aaron is on his 2nd startup, the first he's really and truly proud of. He spent 4 years as a management consultant and (oh no) has a MBA
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  Uday Gajendar
  Citrix
  Uday Gajendar is principal designer at Citrix in Silicon Valley. He brings 11 yrs of versatile real-world experience from Adobe, Oracle, Cisco, frogdesign and his own consulting with clients like Netflix and Linked In. He has also taught design fundamentals at San Jose State.
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  Ed Roman
  Ghostfire Games
  Ed Roman is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, startup advisor, book author, and has mentored at 3 incubators.
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  William Pietri
  William's family is half technical people and half entrepreneurs, so for him the Lean Startup approach is like coming home. He is currently looking to start his 6th company.
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  Fabiana Azevedo
  Hotwire
  Fabiana has been creating web products for over 15 years, working for startups in South America, Europe and the US. She is currently a Sr. Project Manager at Hotwire where she guides agile teams on using lean techniques.
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  Marianne Berkovich
  Google
  Marianne has over 10 years experience understanding users' needs and translating that to products.
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  Kevin Dewalt
  GrapeTree Project
  Failed founder (3x), VC (~20 deals), LS mentor/adviser (lots). Currently in Beijing.
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  Karl Shaikh
  Semi Retired
  A seasoned executive, that adds extremely valuable insights across Business Strategy, Fast Growth Entrepreneurial Businesses, Lean Startup, and Financing of Entrepreneurial Ventures.
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  Ben Blank
  Intuit
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  Greg Biggers
  Genomera
  Protean Multipreneur, Startup Advisor, Troublemaker. CEO of Genomera. n=we. #leanstartup Fat Value. Sailing a Santana 22 on SF Bay. Experience in health, social networking, collaboration, CRM, VRM. 1/2 consumer Internet, 1/2 enterprise software. 100% lean.
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  Ajay Bam
  UC Berkeley
  Ajay brings 11+ years of entrepreneurial experience in his roles as co-founder/CTO/Product leadership at Modiv Media (acquired by Catalina Marketing) and in senior product management roles at Nokia. He is currently faculty of entrepreneurship at Haas business school at U.C. Berkeley and also pursuing his next venture in the bay area.
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  Joel Gascoigne
  Buffer
  Joel is the founder of Buffer. With lean, he took the idea to revenue in 7 weeks. Buffer now has 400,000 users sharing 150,000 posts per day to social networks.