Speakers & Mentors

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  Rebecca Corliss
  HubSpot
  Rebecca manages social media, blogging, and content at HubSpot, a marketing software company in Cambridge. You can also catch her in her award-winning music video “You Oughta Know Inbound Marketing” among many others.
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  Kristy Tillman
  IDEO
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  John Prendergast
  BlueLeaf
  John is the Founder and CEO of Blueleaf, a company that helps families achieve their financial goals. He loves advising startups, he has sold businesses for half a billion dollars, and he is the co-organizer for Boston's Lean Startup Circle.
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  Abby Fichtner
  Microsoft
  Abby is a Hacker Chick / Evangelist for Startups at Microsoft. She also co-organizes Boston's Lean Startup Circle, and specializes in agile software development.
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  Michael Sheeley
  RunKeeper and KickScout
  Michael is an entrepreneur who founded RunKeeper, Mobile-Link Solutions, estorrs.com and now Kickscout (coming soon!). Michael's focus is on building lean product focused businesses in the area of mobile and social.
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  Aaron O'Hearn
  TechStars
  Aaron is the Project Manager for TechStars where he helps manage the Boston program. Prior to TechStars, Aaron was the EIR at Le Camping, he worked at Palm Ventures as an Associate, and he also serve as an Expansion Market Manager for LivingSocial.
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  Michael Mullins
  Lean Startup Challenge
  Michael Mullins is a Founder and the Executive Director of Lean Startup Challenge. He is also a real estate developer and tech entrepreneur. Michael is currently a Director at Caritas Communities and the Founder and CEO at OpenCatalog.net.
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  Shaun Johnson
  TechStars
  Shaun is currently helping 13 startups become successful, all in their own special way. Hard at work at TechStars
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  Matt Smith
  ShutterStock
  Matt is currently the Director of New Products at Shutterstock, where he leads the company's video, mobile, and new product strategy. Previously he helped grow Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) the worlds leading expert network.
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  Bob Cavezza
  iBuildMVPs
  Bob builds technical products for business founders at iBuildMVPs.com. Bob is also a cool guy, a software engineer, and a marketing professional that has founded/co-founded four companies (mostly failures), and is now building EasyUnsubscriber because we all receive emails we don't want anymore.
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  Garrett Johnson
  SendHub
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  Carl Seglem
  UX Designer
  Carl has been designing systems since the early nineties and has spent the largest chunks of his working life at software startups, including Wily Techonogy. He's enthusiastic about helping startups make better experiences for their users faster.
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  Umair Khan
  CA Technologies
  Umair played a key role in organizing the first-ever Lean Startup Machine in Pakistan, and he enjoys leveraging Lean Startup methodologies on his global, entrepreneurial conquests.
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  Shirley Hornstein
  SendHub