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The Agile Board

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Over time at my first startup our developers encouraged us to move to Agile development. So when I read my post it sounded to me more like a new philosophy for “The Agile Board,&# so I put that as my subtitle. Nivi (from VentureHacks ) said it best: “Agile is about short feedback loops. I liked that.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process. They are sticklers about managing unit tests , system tests and regression tests.

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

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42:20 Did agile development influence you? 36:30 Eric: Social media is great for people with social capital. 38:00 Should you use avatars? 40:05 What happened after Imvu. 41:00 Transitioning from software to writing. 43:20 The inception of Lean Startup. 44:45 Telling an entrepreneur to focus is like telling a fat person to lose weight.

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Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup

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agile sales process? getting past the assistant. when to call. is it OK to call an exec on his mobile phone. how to handle intros. What is your sales process? call high or call low? how do you forecast? how do you do pipeline reviews? how should a VC do due diligence on sales operations? how much research should you do before a sales visit?

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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The Agile Board. . * Board Meetings. Running More Effective Board Meetings. Why You Should Ban Laptops & iPads. Between Board Meetings. Communicating Between Board Meetings. Board Observers & Advisory Boards -. The Problem with Board Observers. Rethinking the Role of Board Observers. Why Advisory Boards Give Less Value Than Most Hope.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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The whole point of Agile Development is to produce shorter, sharper pieces of code completed more quickly where you can get feedback from customers. I see many CEO’s, product managers and marketing types out in the field talking with customers and users. I rarely see the tech team do this.

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Why You Should Ban Laptops & iPads at Board Meetings

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” If you want to know how I believe you could run better board meetings you can read my 3 posts on “ Running More Effective Board Meetings ,” “ The Agile Board ” and “ How to Communicate with Investors Between Meetings.”

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