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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth. Cory Nelson will talk with Eric about how GE has applied the MVP method to its development of very large diesel engines.

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The Future of Web Startups

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We could hire employees, but we want to be forced to figure out how to scale investing. New Attitude to Acquisition Another thing I see starting to get standardized is acquisitions. They buy a lot of startups— more than most people realize, because they only announce a fraction of them.

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