KV Summit 2012

2-day CEO summit for Khosla Ventures portfolio companies (Storify is one of them).

  1. First presentation by @EricRies, author of the Lean Startup
  2. Build faster, measure faster, learn faster. Accountability at the heart of the #LeanStartup @ericries #kvsummit
  3. "Startups are experiments" @ericries #kvsummit. Great talk about pivots. @ Cavallo Point instagr.am/p/K5MekflyBa/
  4. Startup = human institution delivering a new product under extreme uncertainty @ericries #LeanStartup #kvsummit ow.ly/i/DMvO
  5. Then Bing Gordon from KPCB took the stage to talk about customer management as a dating experience.
  6. All great brands have an element of controversy. @bingfish #kvsummit
  7. True, but what % remember stats after 1st date? RT @sonnyvu: Beware trick dating. Online daters add 2", deduct 7 lbs avg @bingfish #kvsummit
  8. CEO of Lookout (John Hering) on his experience as an entrepreneur.
  9. Be willing to take pain in the short term to help you focus on the future. Think big, act small. J Hering of @lookout #kvsummit
  10. Last presentation of this batch was about being certain, even when you are wrong (by Robert Burton)
  11. Dan Rose, VP partnerships Facebook
  12. "The product is the strategy. No strategy talk without mockups." - Dan Rose, VP @Facebook. #kvsummit
  13. Facebook is about two things: identity and sharing
  14. Giving people the opportunity to do the core human desires: Identity and sharing - what FaceBook is about @Drose007 #kvsummit
  15. Every mockup in Mark's office are mobile first. It's the priority for this year.
  16. Facebook making "first pivot" by focusing on mobile, says @drose007. Every new mockup is now mobile first #kvsummit
  17. "Next big things are timeline applications. Apps that will enable you to express your identity." - Dan Rose, Facebook #kvsummit
  18. David Lawee, leveraging google (off the record)
  19. "It's easier to do big things than small things. You get better people, easier to get $, easier to get people to sign up." #kvsummit
  20. Samir from KV talk about raising money for clean tech outside of sand hill road.

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