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

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. For example, when your company adds ano ther blade to its disposal razors , the product’s technical development, marketing and sales will follow relatively predictable paths. Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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Startup accelerators modeled after YCombinator and Techstars sprouted up from NYC to Nigeria to New Delhi, spawning hundreds of new startups worldwide. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions. What’s Next in 2012….

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

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As this astute journalist pointed out, DataSift “ likely would have cost a lot more to acquire.” It is the oil pipeline explosion in Nigeria that is Tweeted before people even know a disruption may happen. ” How can businesses not incorporate information into their marketing and sales funnels? Not so DataSift.

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