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 16, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups
“Wave coming, wave coming … paddle! paddle! paddle! Now stand up! Stand up! GET UP!” I can still hear the voice of my surf instructor, and those lessons provide a great parallel to the growth of my company and yours. Surfing and Startups in Costa...
by arin | Jan 4, 2013 | Lean Startup, Startups
How do you convince engineers that it’s okay to build quick experiments, and deploy code that you will probably throw away? How do you convince rigorous engineers that it’s actually more efficient to work in a lean startup style? That is a topic that Sam McAfee from...
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 28, 2012 | Agile, Lean Startup, Startups
Who’s ever heard of a telecom lean startup? That’s sort of what Twilio is, and it’s a pretty cool company and interesting case study. When I attended the LeanStartup.co conference in San Francisco recently, one of the parts I was most excited about was the tour of...
