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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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Speak at the 2013 Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Publicists and those seeking PR and media attention should look elsewhere. * As you''re refining your talk idea, bear in mind this IMPORTANT point: when we refer to "the Lean Startup," we mean specifically the set of ideas that Eric and others have articulated for testing, validating, and learning quickly. Seriously. *

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. To be clear, though, this diversity refers only to diversity of opinion, not necessarily to demographic diversity. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Its important to understand how these companies see you: your resume looks like crap, your references are poor or nonexistent, and you dont have the mandated 10 years of experience in J2EE ERP CRM WTF. Now your crappy resume and low-grade references become a strength: youre obviously not wasting money on marketing. Tough sell.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

As always, I am continually amazed by the passion of the IMVU community. Eric, I agree with everyone above about referring to people who loudly voice their opinions as trolls. Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? Thank you so much for stopping by to demonstrate it! Desperately.

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