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Conference schedule
Wednesday
18:00
10:00 16:30
9:00
Rhyme Combinator's Live Musical Innovation is a Habit, not a Mindset
Preview
Can You Build a Lean Crypto
Disrupting Venture Capital: Breaking
Company?
Rules While Breaking Ground
Fireside Chat: Essential Startup Advice
with Brex Co-Founder and CEO
Conference schedule
Thursday
17:30
12:45 16:00
11:00
The Subscription Economy: How to
Intelligent Growth in Startups:
Survive the End of Ownership
Building More Than a Product to Get
Product/Market Fit
Ignite Talk: Increasing Your Influence
Through Podcasts
Fireside Chat: Venture Capital and
How to Get It
Innovation Readiness: Preparing Your Fireside Chat: An Honest Account of
Company To Support Continuous an Entrepreneur’s Pivot
Innovation
Conference schedule
Friday
14:30
10:15 13:30
9:00
Fireside Chat: 2020 Vision of Silicon
From Founder to Investor: Stories
Valley
from the Trenches of Entrepreneurship
Fast, Fluid and Flat: The Future of Fireside Chat: Cloudflare and the Year
Work and Jobs of IPOs
Not Afraid to Fail: Lessons from
Founding the Largest Lifestyle Brand
for Black Millennials
Rhyme Combinator's Live Musical Preview
Wednesday, October 23 : 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST)
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Rhyme Combinator is a Silicon Valley-based startup with a mission to
champion positive entrepreneurial culture through creative media. What
started as a weekly freestyle rap session back in 2016 turned into a major
collaboration between music, tech and the arts – who all saw meaning in
getting vulnerable and celebrating the grit of innovators and creators. Rhyme
Combinator’s vision is to create an innovative live musical that rivals
Broadway and this year’s conference will kick off with a live preview of their
upcoming original hip hop musical.
Beau Lewis Adesha Adefela
Ryan Nicole Peters
CEO
Writer and Performer Writer and Performer
Rhyme Combinator, Inc.
Rhyme Combinator Rhyme Combinator
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Can You Build a Lean Crypto Company?
Wednesday, October 23 : 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST)
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Everything you have read around best practices for building products and
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companies is put to the test when it comes to blockchain and
cryptocurrencies. In this new and growing area, entrepreneurs are building
novel products in ways that are different from how traditional startups form. In
this fireside chat, you’ll hear from a16z general partner Katie Haun about the
ever-evolving landscape of cryptocurrency: Where are the biggest
opportunities, what are the biggest challenges, how does crypto fit into the
future of tech, and is it possible to be Lean when building a crypto company?
Sonal Chokshi
Katie Haun
Editor in Chief
General Partner
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Innovation is a Habit, not a Mindset
Wednesday, October 23 : 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM PST
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a16zAs innovation has become an important strategic goal, most companies have
started initiating innovation programs. However, this remains a challenge
because these innovation programs are launched inside companies that do
not have the right culture, structures and processes to support them. When a
flower fails to bloom, we have to think about the environment in which it is
growing. This keynote focuses on how you get your company ready to
support innovation. How do you get the right leadership support,
organizational design and innovation practices in place.
Diana Kander
Co-Founder
Agilityworks
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Disrupting Ventures Capital: Breaking Rules While
Breaking Ground
Wednesday, October 23 : 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM PST
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Arlan Hamilton built a venture capital fund from the ground up while homeless and
on food stamps. She has now invested in more than 100 companies with founders
from underrepresented backgrounds. Justin Kan co-founded Twitch, a live
streaming company that was acquired by Amazon for nearly $1 billion in 2014 and
is currently used by more than 15 million people daily. In this Fireside Chat, these
two notorious entrepreneurs will discuss how Arlan built her company from the
ground up.
Arlan Hamilton
Justin Kan
Founder and Partner
Co-Founder and CEO
Backstage Capital
Atrium
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Fireside Chat: Essential Startup Advice with Brex
Co-Founder and CEO
Wednesday, October 23 : 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM PST
Henrique Dubugras Jonathan Bertfield
Co-Chief Executive Officer Faculty
Brex Lean Startup Co.
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Intelligent Growth In Startups: Building More Than
a Product to Get Product/Market Fit
Thursday, October 24: 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM PST
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Once startups get to product market fit, there are countless books, blog posts and
seminars on how to scale and grow. But what if you aren’t quite there? What if you
don’t know what product market fit is for your company? What if you barely have a
product, a small number of employees, just a smidge of funding, customers who are
nominally engaged with your product and revenues that barely register on your
Quickbooks account? In this talk, we’ll discuss how to think about building more than
a product to get you to product market fit. We’ll talk about how to intelligently grow
your business – how you ought to hack value before you can truly hack growth.
Ann Miura-Ko
Co-Founding Partner
Floodgate
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Fireside Chat: Venture Capital and How to Get it
Thursday, October 24: 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM PST
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Whether you’re trying to get a new company off the ground or scale an existing
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business, it’s crucial to understand how venture capitalists think and how the
money works. Join Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z’s) managing partner Scott Kupor
as he dives into how VCs decide where and how much to invest, how
entrepreneurs can get the best possible deal, and if VC funding is right for every
business. Drawing from his book Secrets of Sandhill Road, Kupor will help unlock
the mystery of understanding how venture capital really works and what
entrepreneurs really need to know.
Scott Kupor Anish Acharya
Managing Partner Anish Acharya
a16z a16z
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Innovation Readiness: Preparing Your Company To
Support Continuous Innovation
Thursday, October 24: 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM PST
As innovation has become an important strategic goal, most companies have
started initiating innovation programs. However, this remains a challenge because
these innovation programs are launched inside companies that do not have the
right culture, structures and processes to support them. When a flower fails to
bloom, we have to think about the environment in which it is growing. This keynote
focuses on how you get your company ready to support innovation. How do you
get the right leadership support, organizational design and innovation practices in
place.
Tendayi Viki
Author
The Corporate Startup
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The Subscription Economy: How to Survive the
End of Ownership
Thursday, October 24: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PST
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Tien Tzuo
CEO and Founder
Zuora
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Ignite Talk: Increasing Your Influence Through
Podcasts
Thursday, October 24: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PST
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Guest starring on podcasts is a proven way to effectively increase your
influence and establish yourself as an expert in your industry. In this 5
minute Ignite Talk, Guest Podcast Coach and Author, Anna Sabino will
discuss the 3 key things that you can do today to help you amplify your
brand and generate free leads through podcasts.
Anna Sabino
Author, Speaker, Guest Podcasting
Coach
Podcast Guest Blueprint
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Fireside Chat: An Honest Account of an
Entrepreneur's Pivot
Thursday, October 24: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PST
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a16zCo-founder and CEO of CircleUp, Ryan Caldbeck, and his co-founder endured
an up-and-down cycle in the early stages of their startup that brought them to
the pivot-or-persevere precipice. Their San Francisco-based investment platform
leverages expertise in data science to provide capital and resources to emerging
consumer brands. They were well-funded and off to a strong start. Even better?
They were growing.
Chris Guest Ryan Caldbeck
Chief Marketing and Growth CEO and Founder
Officer CircleUp
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From Founder to Investor: Stories from the
Trenches of Entrepreneurship
Friday, October 25: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PST
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Leah Busque Solivan, General Partner at FUEL Capital and founder of
TaskRabbit, will share her top lessons learned from founding and scaling
TaskRabbit for nearly a decade before selling the company to IKEA back in
2017. She will then share how her perspective has changed since becoming an
early-stage investor and seeing things from the “other side of the table” ―
everything from better understanding the dynamics of why investors choose to
(or choose not to) invest in certain opportunities as well as the importance of
taking care of your own health and wellness.
Leah Solivan
General Partner
FUEL Capital
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Fast, Fluid and Flat: The Future of Work and Jobs
Friday, October 25: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PST
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Brynne Kennedy
Founder and Author
Topia
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Not Afraid to Fail: Lessons from founding the
Largest Lifestyle Brand for Black Millennials
Friday, October 25: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM PST
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Morgan DeBaun, the CEO and co-founder of Blavity has been described as one
of the most important women in Silicon Valley. In our fireside chat, we’ll discuss
her path to entrepreneurship and how she built her media company through a
series of lean experiments. We’ll also learn how listening to customers,
leveraging the power of connection, and staying true to her values have been
key to Blavity’s success.
Hugh Molotsi
Morgan DeBaun
Faculty, Lean Startup Co.
CEO and Founder
Founder and CEO, Ujama
Blavity
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Fireside Chat: 2020 Vision of Silicon Valley
Friday, October 25: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PST
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Andy Rachleff, CEO of Wealthfront and Co-Founder of Benchmark Capital, and
Eric Ries will talk about Andy’s thoughts on his 35 years in Silicon Valley, why
the skill sets of venture capitalists and CEOs are so different, why telling a
good story about your product is so crucial, and where tech is headed in the
year 2020 and beyond.
Eric Ries
Andy Rachleff
Co-Founder and Author
President and CEO
Lean Startup Co.
Wealthfront
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Fireside Chat: Cloudflare and the Year of IPOs
Friday, October 25: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM PST
Matthew Prince
Eric Ries
Co-Founder and Author
Co-founder & CEO
Lean Startup Co.
Cloudflare
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