April 2012

Epiphany Capital recently organised and sponsored the UMI3 Lean Startup Day at the University of Manchester.
There were over 80 people in attendance and the event was a real success.

See a tweetdoc of the event feed here.

Event Programme:

Session 1:   The Lean Startup

Keynote: Joel Gascoigne (@joelgascgoine), Founder of Buffer & OnePage
“Introducing The Lean Startup: How Buffer went from idea to customer in 6 weeks”

Also featuring Martin Bryant (@martinsfp), Managing Editor at leading online tech blog The Next Web

Session 2:   Startup Stories

Demos, tips and lessons from 2 beta-stage startups:

TrueView will be launching its beta at the event with Founder, Andrew Ibbotson @AIbbotson

PostDesk (recently launched into beta) and its founder Sam England (@samengland)

 Session 3:   Panel Discussion

Panel features Martin, Andrew and Sam alongside:

Roy Shelton (@royshelton), entrepreneur, angel investor (DropJaw Ventures)
David Smith, Fund Manager at VC fund AXM Ventures

Presented by Dave Carter, CEO at Manchester Digital

Buffer is a tool for Twitter, LinkedIn and now Facebook, allowing users to schedule updates/tweets in advance of sending them. Using the lean framework, Joel founded the company in October 2010 and delivered the product to his first customer 6 weeks later. In January 2011 he hired his co-founder and closed their first funding round ($400k) from a number of Silicon Valley angels including Hiten Shah (CEO, Kissmetrics), Guy Kawasaki, the co-founder of Huddle, and the founders of AngelPad.

The Next Web (TNW) is one of the world’s largest online publications that delivers an international perspective on the latest news about Internet technology, business and culture, with an active, influential audience consisting of more than 5.1 million monthly visits and over 7 million monthly page views.