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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. He was a very early employee of Facebook , and engineering director there through the moment it blew up. Now he’s VP of engineering at Dropbox , where he’s seeing similar growth.

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. A CTO’s real value is in finding opportunities with asymmetric payoffs.

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How To Find A Programmer To Build Your Startup Idea

socialmatchbox.com

These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. The first part is the hardest part: hunting for a programmer. If you have a friend who is a recruiter then ask them to tell you what they recommend that will not cost anything. Be sure to post your opportunity here.

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9 Product Demo Examples that Stand Out & Convert

ConversionXL

A product demo is a critical tool in the sales process. Done badly, you risk losing sales. You’re also able to set it and leave it, instead of needing a sales team to deliver real-time demos around prospects’ schedules. From the Flywheel dashboard, you can quickly find any site you’re looking for.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. Kaufer originally hired writers to product professional reviews and allowed user reviews on a whim. Scaling Lesson 1: Focus On Finding A Great Business Model. Think about that.

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Women 2.0 » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder

www.women2.org

Published on: July 13, 2011 Posted By Angie Tags: Elizabeth Knopf , Finding A Co-Founder , FounderDating , Sorced , Technical Co-Founder , Tips & Tricks. Thus, I embarked on the journey to find a technical co-founder. Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?