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BRANT COOPER
helps startups get started.
As a Lean Startup thought leader, he travels the
world speaking to entrepreneurs at conferences,
hackathons and workshops. Recent speaking
events include the Kuala Lumpur Venture Capital
Symposium, Lean Startup conferences in
Vancouver and Michigan, the Forward
Technology Conference in Wisconsin, the Lean
Startup Challenge in Boston, and Lean Startup
Machines in London, New York, Boston, Chicago
and San Francisco. Brant also consults for and
advises startups on Lean Startups and Customer
Development, with clients in Silicon Valley, New
York, San Diego, France, Australia and
Singapore. Clients include Qualcomm, MOGL,
HubKick, MotherKnows, i.TV, Lean Startup
Machine, Discovr and many others.
Brant is passionate
about growing the
San Diego tech
community.
Brant Cooper is passionate about growing the
San Diego tech community.He runs the San
Diego Tech Founders monthly meetup that
consistently draws between 100 and 200 startup
people. Speakers have included Eric Ries, Steve
Blank, KISSmetrics CEO Hiten Shah, CatchFree
CEO Sean Ellis and Venture Capitalist Mark
Suster. He is the curator for the San Diego edition
of the Startup Digest. Brant mentored at
CONNECT for four years and holds open office
hours at a weekly coffee meetup that draws 10-
20 people a week.
Prior to becoming involved in the Lean Startup
community, Brant was involved with startups in a
more traditional way. He has over 20 years
experience in IT and a long track record of
bringing high tech products to market. As a
leader in Professional Services, Product
Management and Marketing, he has directed
strategy, design, marketing and implementation
of numerous products for a variety of startups
including Tumbleweed, Timestamp,
WildPackets, Incode and InfoBright.
Brant Cooper has published articles for Venture
Beat and Business Insider, blogs at Market By
Numbers and tweets @brantcooper.
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