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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Most commonly, that’s uncertainty about whether you can build the product at all (what MBAs call “technical risk”) or whether anybody will use or buy it (“market risk”). For example, when your company adds ano ther blade to its disposal razors , the product’s technical development, marketing and sales will follow relatively predictable paths.

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It’s Not All Progress in the World of Business—Although We’re Making Strides

Up and Running

From a summit on media in the Middle East to a huge new funding opportunity for aspiring entrepreneurs in Nigeria, here are fascinating business news stories from the U.S. It also becomes a PR question: Now that this case has garnered such public attention, is it worth the positive PR to make a change? and around the world.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. So I started a gig economy job site, with a focus on transparency of pay estimates and user reviews.

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50+ Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When I returned to Nigeria from Germany looking to create a dedicated (online) hotel booking agency for Nigerians, I wanted my company to communicate in the simplest terms possible what our value proposition was. We are committed to delivering affordable and convenient bookings to our customers anywhere in Nigeria. No one else.

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