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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Entrepreneur Jeff Magnusson provides a sample agile budgeting workbook. This agile approach is not restricted to small startups.

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Twitter Link Roundup #82 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! You’ll find more creative outdoor advertising in the Social Media & Marketing section below. The 5 Dangerous Realities of Social Media for Business – [link].

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios.

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Achieving Greater Agility Through Proper Business Intelligence

YoungUpstarts

Business intelligence (BI) is the gateway for achieving greater agility. Agility in this sense means the flexibility to make more informed decisions based on a diverse array of data outlining consumer patterns and purchasing behavior. by Dan McCarthy, event manager for Venueseeker. Poor data integration leads to poor overall data.

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5 Steps To Locking In The Right New Venture Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto. Social media relationships fuel the scaling fire. Maintain the agility to quickly pivot or quit. Not everything will work.

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Top 3 Remote Work Software Tools To Empower Your WFH Employees

YoungUpstarts

Here are some of the key features and benefits of deploying PDFelement as part of your software portfolio. and other PDF layers like footers and headers, watermarks, pagination, Bates Numbering, embedded media, and much more. Fully edit any element in a PDF file, including main content (images, text, links, etc.)

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5 Ways To Focus Your Strategy On Delighting Customers

Startup Professionals Musings

They need to see results in the form of sponsored events, social media, and feedback from influencers and customers that your mission is more than the low-cost producer. Today, scaling an existing business in a large interconnected environment is generally easier than growing a disparate portfolio.

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