The Startup Lessons Learned Conference, hosted by Eric Ries and organized by Charles Hudson, was promised by Steve Blank, one of the event’s all-star speakers, to be the following:

Sure enough, minus the “free love” and rampant drug-use, we’d say the conference delivered on Steve’s promise.

Startup Lessons Learned produced, by far, the greatest collection of actionable framework and case-studies for startups from the most high quality sources (e.g. Kent Beck, IMVU Team, Randy Kosimar – Kleiner Partner & must-read author for entrepreneurs, Hiten Shah - KISSmetrics, Drew Houston - Dropbox, David Weekly - PBWorks, and of course Steve & Eric) that we’ve seen in a very long time.

We left the conference last night with a better understanding of Lean Startup methodology and new inspiration to get out of the building, meet with customers, and super-charge our search for a scalable business model.

If you don’t want to take our word for it, you can watch the conference yourself, thanks to Justin.tv. Check out the opening of the conference and Eric’s keynote below and for videos of the other talks, head here:

Watch live video from Startup Lessons Learned on Justin.tv

Also, we tracked down the slides from some of the best presenters for your review:

Eric Ries – What is a startup? Lean startup myths, Why build a startup? What’s next?

Ash Maurya – Continuous Deployment

Hiten Shah – KISSmetrics Case Study about Pivots

Steve Blank – Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups

Drew Houston – Dropbox Lessons Learned

Congrats to Eric and Charles on a truly epic event. When’s the next one? :-)