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

YoungUpstarts

The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). In reality, embracing the digital transformation with custom solutions is now more affordable, analytics is easier and cloud technologies mean more options when faced with limited shelf space. Enterprise Apps.

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

Transformify

Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said.

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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?” Not, ‘what's the technology?’

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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. As one engineer recently told me, “Once we had money in the bank and were near-profitable, I think we would have been well-served by increased up-front product and technology planning.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

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.

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