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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Another way to learn more about who’s speaking is to sort the conference program by category and find people addressing specific topics. Experienced entrepreneurs We’ve got speakers who are justifiably respected by a lot of entrepreneurs. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). November 25, 2009 9:54 AM Danny Wong said.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. We think so. Today, this thesis is less relevant.

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Compensating a consultant at start-up phase

help.bplans.com

I am hiring a consultant for assistance in piecing my business plan together. Expert Categories Business Plans. Entrepreneuring. Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. More Business Software. Tim Berrys Blog. Up and Running Blog. Affiliate Program. Contact Us. Compensating a consultant at start-up phase.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? Chaos often creates some of the best opportunities, so we tend to back category leaders.

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