YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2018
The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. Buzzwords like data science, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics are being used by big companies with the ability to invest.
Gust
AUGUST 22, 2012
One commonly used approach is to identify widely felt “pain points” in the target market; build a workable solution to address them using particularly effective or efficient means; and if the business model pencils out, work like crazy to execute, execute, execute. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development.
SVPG
MARCH 10, 2016
For many years, as teams move to Agile methods (they usually start with Scrum), many companies decide to contract with or hire an Agile Coach. These people are there to help the broader team – especially engineers, QA, product managers and product designers – to learn the methods and mindset involved in moving to Agile.
Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 29, 2009
The human tendency to moralize about debt affects engineers, too. For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future.
SVPG
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
In this model, the product manager is really a backlog administrator. Lots of CEO’s tell me this is the model they’re in and it’s not working. If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 24, 2011
So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. Is that true or is there some engine there I’m not familiar with? So if I were you I would say, ‘That is not a viable engine.’ So you’re going to need another engine.
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