Dan Olsen
Product Consultant and Author, The Lean Product Playbook

Website | @danolsen

“Dan Olsen <img src=‘http://www.linkedin.com/img/icon/icon_acct_15x15.gif’”:http://www.linkedin.com/in/danolsen98/ is CEO and Founder of YourVersion, a real-time discovery engine startup. Dan is a Web 2.0 entrepreneur and consultant with 19 years of high-tech experience. At Intuit, Dan led Quicken product management and launched an online brokerage. He also led product management at Friendster. Dan’s areas of expertise are product management/development, UI design, marketing, and measuring /optimizing key metrics.

Dan founded YourVersion in 2007 to build “Pandora for your real-time web content”: a real-time discovery engine that discovers the latest relevant web content tailored to your specific interests across news, blogs, Twitter, and videos. YourVersion also offers a free iPhone app so you can stay on top of your interests on the go. YourVersion launched at the TechCrunch50 Conference where it won the People’s Choice Award.

Dan started Olsen Solutions LLC in 2005 and has consulted to many start-ups including Box.net, YouSendIt, MoodLogic, Epocrates, Xing, Angie’s List, and Attensa.

Dan has a BSEE from Northwestern, a Master’s in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech, and an MBA from Stanford.