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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Of course, the hiring needs vary a lot and are dependent on the business model, but a skills gap analysis reveals that more product managers, programmers, and sales and marketing experts will be needed in the near future. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Scrum, Agile, Problem Analysis, Business Catalyst, Business Analytics.

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How a startup should leverage a personal assistant

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

A virtual assistant (VA) is a remote worker hired to complete tasks you should not be doing as the founder of a startup. Agile Development, meet Agile Business. These hiring arrangements are described below: Task-based — ($3-10/hour overseas, $12-50/hour in the U.S.) This article intends to answer those questions.

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Case Study: UX, Design, and Food on the Table

Startup Lessons Learned

I first met Laura Klein when we had the good fortune of hiring her at IMVU to join our interaction design team. In this case, I created the interactive wireframes in HTML and JavaScript. Manuel Rosso was IMVU's first VP of Marketing, and is now CEO of Food on the Table , one of the leading lean startups in Austin.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

chriscoyier fire incompetent devs and hire someone who can do it right from the start. And all too often in an agile approach, tweaks are made for business and dev requirements. There are proven development methodologies out there like Lean, Agile, Waterfall. Use markdown or basic HTML and be nice. HTML-Ipsum.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive taught everyone from hard-core programmers to scripters to HTML-designers to use it properly. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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The 2015 Digital Marketing Rule Book. Change or Perish.

Occam's Razor

Just because your site is B2B, you do not have the right to create a 1940s website and force visitors to type their name, precise GPS coordinates and underwear size to get a PDF that should have existed as a webpage in the first place (as HTML has been invented). The web demands immense agility and flexibility from every company.

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The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Maybe hire an employee for $30 per hour and re-bill them at $60. Suppose you hire an employee at $60,000/year. After all, if you expect to hire and retain great people, they need time to keep learning, stay in front of the latest technology, and just have fun. Easy money, right? Double is nothing. Isn’t that better?

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