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7 Steps to Driving Impact in Community Banking

Board Effect

As businesses that often support underserved communities, community banks can be instrumental in creating long-term positive changes for individuals and businesses. In recent years, economic disruptions and technological advancements were already challenging community bank boards when COVID-19 emerged.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. Tim, Ryan, and team have created a phenomenal company that is built on two trends that have picked up massive speed in the past few years: (1) Agile and (2) SaaS. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their #1 Goal for 2022

Hearpreneur

Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. It's important to keep business agile. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. As a result of the pandemic, not everyone has managed to hold onto their work. 8- Being prepared for the unexpected.

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Bringing Lean Startup to Life at GE

Startup Lessons Learned

Although everyone knows GE, Beth is new to many people in our community, so we’ve created a backgrounder for you. In a career that has moved from GE to NBC Universal and back to GE, she has brought technological innovation and agile business techniques to two of the US’s biggest legacy corporations.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

42:07) On how the 2008 financial crisis prepared banks for the pandemic. (44:25) And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Let's go."

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5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When We Reimagined Our Business

Up and Running

My team and I launched crowdSPRING in early 2008. Xerox, Polaroid, Blockbuster, and other market leaders lost to smaller, more agile competitors because the market leaders assumed that they would dominate forever. Many processes are already established and it’s more difficult to be agile. We were wrong.