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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end. The onset of death. Think again.

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How New Technologies Enabled These Young Entrepreneurs To Threaten The Traditional Retail Landscape

YoungUpstarts

While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. One of the cofounders explains how he witnessed first-hand while working at a bank that a lot of traditional retailers were in trouble as internet retailers ate away their margins.

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

Companies are embarking on digital transformation journeys to experiment new digital ways of doing business — this means leveraging data smarter to enable unprecedented levels of efficiency, agility, and productivity. However, it wasn’t until 1983 when the first commercially viable mobile phones went on sale in the U.S.

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The Case For Web-Based Mobile Apps – An Interview With UR Mobile

YoungUpstarts

Unlike a native app, a mobile web app solution does not silo data but instead creates an agile and sustainable enterprise-level solution. Through a mobile web app, organizations can allow internal and/or external mobile end-users to engage with sales, billing, CRM, etc. from anywhere and at anytime through a mobile browser.

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16 Entrepreneurs Share Advice That’s The Complete Opposite of What They Learned Before Starting Their Venture

Hearpreneur

Initial perfection is an unrealistic goal and most of my learnings were devised after I started testing strategies and making sales. Contrary to the initial advice, I learned that it's essential to embrace agility and be willing to pivot when necessary. Thanks to Ashley Vasquez, TBD Coffee ! #8- Thanks to Dmitrii Kustov, RegexSeo ! #13-

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

Transformify

The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. Well, there will be 2 copywriters, 1 editor, 1 blogger, 3 programmers, 1 Project/Product Manager, 1 Business/ Finance, 1 Sales/ Marketing expert. Business / Finance.

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The Rise of the Lean VC – Consumer Internet Gets Its Own Investors

Steve Blank

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. Here’s why. Electron-based Venture Capital.

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