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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover several topics including agile software development, software startups, web 2.0, Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research. 2) The agile "happy place". Agile teams sprint when value is known, implementation is low risk. and business transformation.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.

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What Can Your Company Learn from Fast-Growing Startups?

ReadWriteStart

The number of people working remotely in the United States has risen by nearly 80 percent between 2005 and 2012. It has published its financial data since its inception in 2010. Build an Agile Culture. Many companies today—both small and large—are realizing the benefits of organizational agility. Break Down Silos.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). We’re just a little start-up with a big, big dream…We’ve just launched [link] in December 2010. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). .]… link] fnazeeri I’ve seen it work (and not).

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Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement speech still says it best - Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA « Steve Blank (tags: startup) [.] Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Reply What did I learn today? Reply Create.

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19 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. I started my company in 2005 as a full-service marketing agency. I called it The Hacker Chick Blog – the name dripping with sarcasm – because *I’m just a hacker chick, what the hell do I know? *

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