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The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). In the valley or in Boston, lawyers will often *defer* up to $25K until funding in return for 0.5%-1.0% PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money.

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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. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed.