Tristan Kromer

I help setup new groups, create a world wide network of lean startup organizers, help existing groups find their sustainable business model (even if non-profit), and hack a little bit on leanstartupcircle.com

I coach startups and intrapreneurs on adopting Lean Startup principles into practice. I've worked with companies as early stage as $0 revenue to larger enterprises with $12.9B in revenue. While the situation changes and tactics must be adapted, the principles remain the same. References available on request to companies ranging from early stage ($0 revenue) to established businesses ($1-$100 million revenue) to enterprise scale companies (>$1 billion revenue.)

I ran LUXr's accelerator training program. This involved working with accelerators and enterprises in a train the trainer program and helping them design their curriculum. Accelerators learned how to implement and train startups in lean startup methodology using LUXr's core curriculum as a basis. I've had the opportunity to do this with Accelerators and Enterprises such as Startup Wise Guys (Estonia), Happy Farm (Ukraine), NEST'up (Belgium), N-motion (USA), TechBA (USA), & Pitney Bowes (USA)

I ran two events with Startup Weekend. Chris McCann from StartupDigest said of the last one, "That was the highest quality Startup Weekend I've ever been to!" I also currently hold the speed record for organizing a StartupWeekend in 14 days. We had 9 days to sell tickets and managed to sell out.

I designed and organized a curriculum for a one month entrepreneurship bootcamp based on lean startup methodology. This included recruiting speakers, managing knowledge transfer between mentor handovers, and on-site supervision of the program as a lean startup coach. The program brought entrepreneurs from Mexico to the San Francisco Bay Area for education, networking, and exploring business opportunities in the United States.

Advisor to a mobile app company in lean startup, product development, user experience (UX) design, and marketing. Their first product was PowerVocab, an iOS app to help students prepare for the GRE. The product line was acquired.

I volunteered with BUILD to teach entrepreneurship to high school students at Oakland Tech and help them get into college. My team designed and sold lanyards with the Oakland Tech colors.

startupSQUARE was my first lean startup. We applied the principles to invalidate our business idea. The idea didn't work, but the lean startup principles did and we blogged about our process at http://blog.startupsquare.com

Originally in Vietnam for a two month period to restructure the marketing department, I was responsible responsible for managing a team of 32.5 staff during the departure of the local GM and global CTO. Local operations included the R&D department for our Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Single Sign-On (SSO) products as well as the marketing department responsible for worldwide marketing support.

I was responsible for the profit and loss of our Full Disk Encryption, email security, and file/folder encryption products. This included making all business decisions including alliances and acquisitions. I also worked with the marketing and sales teams to create the marketing plan and draft the marketing/sales collateral, white papers, presentations, and website material.

I was responsible for the profit and loss of our Full Disk Encryption product. This included making all business decisions including alliances and acquisitions. I also worked with the marketing and sales teams to create the marketing plan and draft the marketing/sales collateral, white papers, presentations, and website material.

I worked with the sales team to develop and implement marketing campaigns for the North American market focusing on Single Sign-On for the SAP market. This included creating sales collateral including white papers, presentations, and product flyers. This work was done concurrent with advanced studies.

I worked in various positions in the music industry. I recorded, produced, and edited three full length CDs and an EP (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003) as well as managed all aspects of CD manufacturing, graphic design, and layout. I established digital and retail distribution outlets, developed marketing campaigns (including print advertisements, CD release parties, and reviews), and booked national concert tours.

Exchange student program; Co-founder and marketing manager of The Immortal Dodos, international students’ basketball team.

MBA Student Government Representative 2005-2006; Author of the Student Constitution; Salsa Club Founder and President 2005-2006; Chess Club President 2005-2006.

Scholastic honors: Dean’s List with High Honors, Fall 1994.