May 30, 2012

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Patrick Vlaskovits is a serial entrepreneur; currently founder of LeanLA.com and FounderDating LA as well as co-author of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development and The Lean Entrepreneur.

Founder: Patrick Vlaskovits

Company: The Lean Entrepreneur

Location: Newport Beach, CA

1. I came up with the concept of my next book:

When Brant Cooper and I initially collaborated on The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development. Now, we are working on The Lean Entrepreneur (Wiley, Fall 2012).

The Lean Entrepreneur will describe Lean Startup tactics applicable in any domain that has innovation and uncertainty. We have case studies of people doing Lean Startup-like things in music, social entrepreneurship, investment, restaurants and all sorts of interesting domains.

I also run LeanLA.com and FounderDating LA. LeanLA is a meetup with more than 2k members where we have speakers talk about Lean Startup & Customer Development. FounderDating LA is a curated experience that allows talented founder s to find one another.

2. Ambition:

Be the best father I can be.

3. One day I hope to:

Create something meaningfully disruptive that truly betters the world.

4. Current obsession:

Going to restaurants; not looking at the menu and asking the wait staff to surprise me with their favorite choice.

5. Favorite business tool:

Greplin; It’s a personal search engine that allows you to search all your online data in one easy place.

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