(September 30, 2009) Speaker, author and entrepreneur Eric Ries shares rapid fire wisdom on building nimble, responsive, and efficient online software-based business. He also offers his wisdom on streamlining processes and progressing engineering systems, and puts forth front line insight into why some new ideas succeed where others have failed. Eric Ries is the author of the blog Lessons Learned. He was the co-founder and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, his third startup. He is the co-author of several books including The Black At of Java Game Programming. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups including pbWiki, Smule, 750i and KaChing. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu/ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Program: etl.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com/stanford