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Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2013!

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So while you keep an eye on your team, your customers, your marketing, your online activities, and your bottom line it is now also time to get ready for tax time, perform the year-end reviews, consider raises and bonuses, clean up the office, schedule holiday vacations, and plan the company party! Review your website. Clean up, now!

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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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Sneak preview of the new Lean UX Book

Startup Lessons Learned

Lean Startups require cross-functional teams working closely together. What follows is an excerpt from Chapter 4 (Collaborative Design) of Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden The most effective way I’ve found to rally a team around a design direction is through collaboration.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

The Lean LaunchPad Class. You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship class. And in the thirty days since we’ve put the Lean LaunchPad class online at Udacity – 50,000 students have been taking it. The result – Startup Weekend Next. Hands-On in 100’s of Cities. How it Works.

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Courting Content, Not Controversy

Startup Lessons Learned

This post co-written by Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Our goal in hosting The Lean Startup Conference —which starts in just over two weeks—is to help entrepreneurs learn absolutely useful things from each other. We review all speaker and sponsor materials for inappropriate imagery.

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The 4 Hottest Industries To Start a Business in For 2020

Up and Running

It’s often cheaper and more sustainable to build your app or software somewhere else. Create a lean business plan . has reached a turning point—where traditional services and facilities are facing extinction due to the rising preference for “ convenient, personalized, and data-driven health.” SAAS Business Startup Guide .

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Twitter Link Roundup #166 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

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Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? How should one go about pricing their software product? Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail?