VIDEO: Eric Ries’ presentation at Lean Startup Circle Boston

Last week, The Lean Startup Circle Boston hosted Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned.

As a co-organizer of the Lean Startup Circle Boston, I’ve seen a few Lean Startup presentations. As you can imagine, Eric’s is one of the best. I won’t try to recap the salient points of the video in a blog post. Instead, I encourage you to actually take an hour and 47 minutes of your day or evening to watch this video from beginning to end. Sounds crazy, but trust me – it’s worth it.

The assembled crowd at Microsoft’s N.E.R.D. building consisted of roughly 1/2 lean startup “newbies” and 1/2 “experienced” lean startup practitioners. This made it a little interesting from Eric’s point of view. He needed to cover off the basics of the Lean Startup and Customer Development methodology so the new folks understood what the hell he was talking about, while also getting into some detailed topics and Q&A so that the others wouldn’t be bored. He did a great job.