by arin | May 9, 2013 | User Group Reports
Last week I was in Portland Oregon for RailsConf 2013. Portland is a great city with beautiful views of mountains that us East Coasters dream of, unusually good weather (last week anyways), and a very entertaining soccer team. But none of that is why I spent a week...
by arin | Jan 17, 2013 | Events, Lean Startup, User Group Reports
My background is technical, not in sales. But as a lean entrepreneur, I have to wear my sales and marketing hat more than I wear my programmer hat these days. So I was excited when I could make it to this month’s DC Lean Startup Circle. The topic was Lean Sales and...
by arin | Jan 3, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups, User Group Reports
The Ignite talks at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco in December were a lot of fun, both as an attendee and as a speaker. Below is the video of my talk on “Just Deploy It!”. In my talk, I focused on 5 anti-patterns that I see regularly in...
by arin | Dec 5, 2012 | Startups, User Group Reports
What’s the best conference that you’ve ever been to? For me, the 2012 Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco is definitely the best one that I’ve been to so far. It was my favorite as a speaker, where I did a short Ignite talk on deploying software...
by arin | Dec 3, 2012 | Startups, User Group Reports
Here are the slides that I used last night at the Lean Startup Conference’s Ignite talks. I am indebted to Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein of The Lean Startup Conference for giving me the opportunity to present. I have spoken at a good number of conferences...
by arin | Nov 30, 2012 | Startups, User Group Reports
“Good design is no longer something that sets you apart on the web, it’s the price of admission.” – That’s a paraphrase of a great quote I heard at the WarmGun UX conference in San Francisco. I attended WarmGun as part of my all inclusive...
