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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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The 5 Biggest Crisis-Related Mistakes Your Business Is Probably Making

YoungUpstarts

I’ve been working in PR for close to 15 years, and I still spend more time than I’d like trying to get clients to understand the importance of crisis planning. Lean into the fear! Even if your team has a crisis plan or you’ve attended a crisis workshop, your work is not done. You’re using a crisis as a PR ploy.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) 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. Ive founded and self-funded a (lean) startup on my own.

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Announcing the 2012 Lean Startup Conference in SF

Startup Lessons Learned

I’m pleased to announce that I am once again hosting a Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco this fall. They’ll share real-world stories of lean startup principles in action and answer your questions. I think it's time to rename it since that's the phrase people actually use.) We’ll launch registration soon, promise.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.

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30 Money Saving Tips For Your Business

Up and Running

DIY Marketing and PR. Hiring a PR firm can be very costly, and if you’re passionate and knowledgable, you could be your own spokesperson. “Lean is in. Free investment workshops. Martin notes that the more money you process, the more clout you’ll have to negotiate a more favorable contract.