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Speaker Lineup for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Now’s a good time to remind you that many of our 2013 speakers are participating in free webcasts this fall—which include live Q&A with participants. He gave us a quick rundown on two major growth challenges he’s faced: Challenge #1: Vanity Metrics. And that’s why we now pre-sell all our paid products. Challenge #2: Technical Debt.

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Hands-on Lessons for Advanced Topics in Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Alistair Croll will lead a session on Lean analytics for intrapreneurs —from introducing never-before-seen case studies to tracking a product through its entire development and demonstrating which data and metrics are useful in what kinds of situations. Thus we reduce the risk of deployments. How do you address that?

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow. So if you’ve got advice to share on implementing a continuous deployment framework, for example, we’re all eyes.

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