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Your Guide to the Complete Lean Startup Conference Program

Startup Lessons Learned

We’ve recently added talks from: Former US CTO and current tech advisor to the White House, Todd Park; former Facebook engineering director Joceyln Goldfein; Dropbox engineering VP Aditya Agarwal; and KISSMetrics founder Hiten Shah. Platinum Passholders will spend December 8 visiting four successful San Francisco startups.

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Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. Ultimately, the project can founder on the “core incompetencies&# you both bring to the partnership.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Pitch Night in San Francisco. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. I would love to have an effective CTO or VP of Engineering to manage me.

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Women 2.0 Pitch Night…batter swing!

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Pitch Night in San Francisco. The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

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And for those in the coveted in-crowd, Silicon Valley, San Francisco and the greater tech community become a world of opportunity where you’re only limited by the quality of your idea and the caliber of your friends. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Do a curl (or your.NET equivalent) on each domain, and see how many are running a Windows server: I think you’ll find the fraction very small. They’ve tried everything.

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