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

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup Conference is an event by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs—except that our definition of “entrepreneur” may be different from the one you have in mind. So what kinds of talks do all these entrepreneurs find valuable? Really, it''s a place to learn and connect with other entrepreneurs.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Examples of this are well-known, and (in my definition) include any product that causes new customers to sign up as a necessary side-effect of existing customers normal usage: Facebook, Myspace, AIM/ICQ, Hotmail, Paypal. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Bring your questions.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." I highly recommend this book for all entrepreneurs, in startups as well as in big companies. Ive only had luck sharing it with other entrepreneurs who are actually struggling with their product or company.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. And speaking of Facebook, I definitely didnt think it was a good idea when I first heard about it. We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other.

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The Superbowl ad test

Startup Lessons Learned

Since I first started writing about vanity metrics , I’ve met more and more entrepreneurs who are struggling with a simple question: how can I tell a vanity metric when I see it? Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR.

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Engagement loops: beyond viral

Startup Lessons Learned

You could try and drive home that positioning with an expensive PR campaign, superbowl ads, and whatnot. You definitely brought clarity around the engagement loop re: A-B-C-D makes perfect sense and can be mapped against any flow that has the possibility to go viral. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? I recently took a stab at explaining segments, based on Moores definition Sean mentions above. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?