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Seeking Speakers

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein , co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference this fall. Last week , we announced the date and venue for The Lean Startup Conference: Dec 3 - 4, 2012 at the InterContintenal in SF. When we're evaluating your application, we won't know your name, ethnicity, gender or age.

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20 Impressive & Inspiring Productivity Experts on Twitter

YoungUpstarts

This University of Houston English professor specializes in time management and other hallmarks of productivity for creative types. As the name suggests, this Twitter feed posts capsule comments about the best routes towards a productive home, office, and personal life, with emphasis on curtailing stress. Productivity Hacks.

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Twitter Link Roundup #189 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Why Startups Are Sporting Increasingly Quirky Names - [link] and tips to name your company – [link]. 5 Lessons Dropbox CEO Drew Houston Learned When His Business Boomed | Fast Company – [link]. Interview: Rand Fishkin CEO of Moz on Lean Marketing – [link]. Yes — GigaOM – [link].

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Volunteering in Guatemala

David Cohen

We left the house at 9:15am and connected through Houston. When we got to Houston, Rollie at a huge late lunch. Her name was Lola. We met Balthazar who leads the project and a young lady who was helping out there for a sustained period of time, but whose name unfortunately escapes me. The dog was named Croquetta.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

Kirsten Saenz Tobey : My name is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. Kristin Groos Richmond : My name is Kristin Groos Richmond. From a mission and purpose standpoint, we have always been about access and quality, so that was a natural place for our team to lean in harder to the support that we knew would be needed across our communities.

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Transcript of Creating Exponential Growth Through Hard Work, Not Magic

Duct Tape Marketing

I think a lot of companies that do things, not household named company, I mean any company that you look at from the outside, and it just you use magic, or whatever term you use. Brad Sugars: Oh look, I think that the greatest of anything, any greats in anything, sport, acting, music, business, you name it, the greats make it look easy.

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

We’ve talked a little bit about planning, and lean management, and even some of the Kanban principles that we talked about a few episodes ago. His name is Eric Cacciatore. We’ve got another Texas city, Houston, number seven. Jonathan: Kanban. Peter: I don’t know, ban the can. Jonathan: Because we can can can.

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