The intersection of students & startups is a really happy place for me and so it’s been awesome that I’ve gotten to teach students about how to do startups at four (!) different universities over the last 4 weeks (yes, it’s been a whirlwind!). MIT, Harvard, London Business School and Northeastern. Developers, designers, business students, scientists, engineers – all  coming together around the excitement of creating their own startups.

To celebrate, I decided it was about time to create some new content – including this new Lean Startup 101 that I presented at Northeastern Entrepreneur Club’s Husky Startup Challenge this weekend – which was a ton of fun!

Here are the slides (and there’s a video of the presentation below):

It’s one thing to read about Lean Startup. It’s another to make it work with the nuances of your own startup. And so, just like in understanding our customers, sometimes you’ve just got to get out of the building and see how others are doing it.

Lean Startup Circle Meetups are awesome because they bring in startups to share their own experiences. The one shared by Buz at last night’s Lean Startup Circle Boston was so cool I wanted to share it here.

Caomhan Connolly is a 21 year old entrepreneur from Dublin ("I’m from Ireland, like everyone else in Boston" :) ).

Caomhan is the co-founder of Buz, a startup in ChinAccelerator (like a TechStars for China) that’s creating a hardware + software solution to help brick & mortar businesses get more customers through social media.

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