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We’re Programming Around Your Needs: Highlights of Lean Startup Week 2017

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. For eight years, our flagship conference has focused on sharing stories and lessons of putting Lean Startup’s entrepreneurial methodology into practice. Lean Startup Week (Oct. 31 ( limited to the first 200 Gold Passholders.)

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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. We’re looking for speakers for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference. If you’re a Lean Startup veteran, feel free to skim the beginning, as this is mostly stuff you already know. Last week, we announced that our short application form was live.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

Sure I can build a stock chart, like this one , that shows that eBays stock price went into a four-year decline immediately after "eBay Inc Acquires Dutch Company Marktplaats.nl." The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? When a company is only two months old, every day you wait gives you 1.7% Even VCs do it.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. We also had the benefit of many lean practices that break out of the "time, quality, money - pick two" paradox.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

Our fund (Upfront Ventures) recently returned >1x an entire $200 million fund just selling small minatory in secondary sales while still holding most of our stock for an ultimate public market exits. In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ? Seksom Suriyapa ?

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I want to mentor you in the Shopify Build-A-Business Contest 2012

Startup Lessons Learned

I was working in manufacturing studying lean principals on the factory floor when I came up with the idea for Coffee Joulies and asked Dave if he would help me. We are still coming up with ways to improve our packaging that can keep the process lean but make an even better finished product. Second: Web design.