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The Digital Transformation Is Affordable For SMBs: Where To Start In Your Digital Strategy

YoungUpstarts

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). apps to manage their operations, up from 3.8 In a very real sense, SMBs are better positioned to benefit from digital transformation than large companies.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

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.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” Second, don’t simply hire your buddies.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. Well when I hear that I think of writing checks because I feel like that’s all I do sometimes as a founder of start ups is write checks because you don’t see them when they come in. They have 27 business units.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non-existent. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Everyone is a generalist and works on a little bit of everything. Don’t do that stuff.