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

Startup Lessons Learned

Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. But when we talk about “lean,” we’re referring to the processes a company can use, when developing a new product or service, to learn quickly about the questions it has.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization.

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

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I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). On one hand, I know some really successful founders actually opt for a *longer sales cycle*. (I

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The #1 thing successful founders think about for their next startups

Hippoland

I use “sales cycle” loosely – by this I mean the time it takes to get a product paid for, and so this involves both product development and time to get a check from a customer). On one hand, I know some really successful founders actually opt for a *longer sales cycle*. (I

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Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder | Vinicius Vacanti

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I currently just started a tech blog to cover under the radar, bootstrapped startups and this is great advice for the startups I cover and my readers. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup. More important that you learn Django or whatever advanced web framework your team will be using. Are frameworks the way to go ?

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Tools that technical people have had for years (project management methods and tools, programming frameworks, etc.) are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Spencer Fry , Founder of two bootstrapped companies. Developers who understand and can execute on a business model.