LSA Meetup in SF w/Janice Fraser of LUXr

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Lean UX is a principle-driven approach for designing startup products. With Lean UX, teams collaborate better, make faster decisions, and act decisively with more confidence.

By reducing long product cycles into smaller, shorter chunks and validating these iterations with people that will use our products, we gain the important information needed to avoid expensive development cycles that are laden with risk.

This is a newly organized discipline that recombines techniques and ideas from Agile, User Experience, and Customer Development, and it’s evolving rapidly. By giving this way of working a name and describing what it’s good for, Lean UX becomes something we can teach, debate, and repeat. It’s not rocket science, but it takes thought, focus, and an absolute commitment to users.

Janice Fraser, Founder & CEO

Janice is an entrepreneur and interaction designer for web and mobile products. During her 15 years in Silicon Valley, she has raised capital, founded both successful and failed startups, consulted to both large enterprises and early stage firms.

Janice was cofounder of design firm Adaptive Path and served as the company’s first CEO. During her tenure, Adaptive Path tripled in staff and revenues, developed and sold a product to Google, coined the term Ajax, and transformed Adaptive Path from a lifestyle partnership to a high-growth firm.

Janice has been a guest speaker at many conferences and universities, including Haas, Kellogg, Stanford, and the Presidio Graduate School of Management.

You can learn more here: http://luxr.co/

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June 2012

Welcome to the first LSA newsletter!

Next LSA meetup

Janice Fraser, CEO and Founder of LUXr (free)

Thursday, Jun 21 @6:30PM | San Francisco

Join us at LUXr in San Francisco and hear Janice share Lean User Experience principles that you can use to help your startup build products that customers will want. Lean User Experience is a principled approach to startup products that integrates design and development to make the most of your team, increase measurable outcomes, and delight your customers. Which means good things for you and your investors.

Don’t miss out!  http://www.meetup.com/Latino-Startup-Alliance/events/65968132/

Upcoming Tech Events

Big Data Developers (free)

Friday, Jun 15 @8AM | Foster City

Rafael Coss, one of our LSA members, is organizing a meetup to help you learn more about Big Data, hosted by IBM. Participate in an exclusive Big Data Developer Day hosted by Anjul Bhambhri, Vice President, IBM Big Data Development. Experience IBM’s enterprise-class big data platform that allows you to address the full spectrum of big data business challenges.

Read more and register at ibm.com/events/BigDataDeveloperDay today!

Big Brand Hackathon

Saturday and Sunday, Jun 16-17 @ 9AM | San Francisco ($10, free with BlueRunComp promo code)

Developers, if you are ready to put on your hackathon hat for the weekend, come on out to the Big Brand Hackathon sponsored by Kraft, Home Depot, and others.

Compete for more than 25K in cash and 20K in prizes. Brand giants Kraft Foods & The Home Depot will reward developers who design apps that drive brand awareness through social, location and other mobile services. Nokia will award developers 50 of its hot-selling Lumia devices for the best Window’s Phone apps. Bravo TV will also be filming the hack as part of an upcoming reality show based on the Silicon Valley.

http://bigbrandhackathon-bluerunventures.eventbrite.com/

 

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LSA in the news

(playing a little catchup here!)

Jennifer Arguello is named a female founder to watch by Women 2.0! More…

Jesse Martinez is interviewed on what LSA is all about and the motivation behind its formation. More…

Fabia Oliva’s Fiverun was one of a select group of startups to present at Launch: Silicon Valley. More…

 

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