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5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams

ConversionXL

Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes. But Agile is about more than just speed.

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Why Everyone Wants To Be Agile

YoungUpstarts

If you keep up with the news on project management and business strategy, you’ve probably come across the buzzword “agile” more than a few times. But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? But what does it mean to be agile and do agile as a business unit? Defining Agile.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. Every startup is in a race against time. The result?

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Apple brilliantly mastered User Interface and product design to power the iPhone to dominance. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Apple brilliantly mastered User Interface and product design to power the iPhone to dominance. Filed under: Corporate Innovation.

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Nonprofit CEO Providing PPEs For Essential Workers

Hearpreneur

Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5 VisionSpring was founded in 2001 with the goal of reaching and providing affordable, quality glasses to the 2.5 With our pivot, we will have created a new set of disciplines around design, iteration, safety, and service in low-income communities.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards.

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