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The Lean Startup SXSW 2013

Startup Lessons Learned

. + 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press! Vinod Khosla Founder Dave McClure Founding Partner Eric Ries Author Steve Blank Serial Entrepreneur & Professor Todd Park CTO Travis Kalanick CEO & Co-Founder Joe Zadeh Director of Product Sam Shank Co-Founder & CEO NEW!

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

Yet time after time, after the product shipped, startups would find that customers didn’t use or want most of the features. The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. The founders.

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A full day of Lean Startup Workshops on December 4, 2012

Startup Lessons Learned

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. In this workshop, Fraser, Founder/CEO of LUXr and Klein, Director of Product & UX at One Jackson will offer practical techniques for getting and using customer feedback.

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

www.women2.org

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Always Right: Five Risks You Must Take With Your Customers

YoungUpstarts

That’s a bad way to look at taking good care of your customers. In today’s competitive global economy, you absolutely must provide enough value to keep customers loyal over the long term. In 1983 he cofounded Direct Mail Express (DME) in Daytona Beach, Florida, with his siblings Mike and Kathy.

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The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post)

Startup Lessons Learned

Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. We will not lose on their products -- after all, most of them are global.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. Entrepreneurship is the life-blood of our global civilization. We all owe you.