Eric Ries

Eric Ries
Venture Advisor, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

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Eric Ries became a Venture Advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, after co-founding and serving as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. 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, Bunchball, FooMojo, Causes and KaChing.

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10:50am Thursday, 04/17/2008
Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth
Architecture and Technology, Business and Case Studies, Replication and Scale-Out
 Location: Ballroom E
Eric Ries (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), Chris Hondl (IMVU)
In the course of six months IMVU’s user base quadrupled in size. This session will focus on the techniques used to incrementally add scalability without making large changes to the application layer or disrupt ongoing feature development by the rest of the team. Read more.
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