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Pros and Cons of the Offshore Company for Software Development

The Startup Magazine

Almost all businesses today, regardless of size or industry, are using offshore development to build and enhance their own software. The most significant advantages of offshore development, such as lower costs, access to a larger pool of qualified development companies, resource management, flexibility, etc.,

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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What to Expect When Developing an App in 2021

Up and Running

The mobile app development market is evolving at a rapid speed. In this article, we will talk about the trends and the cost of mobile app development with a forecast for 2021. In this article, we will talk about the trends and the cost of mobile app development with a forecast for 2021. AR and VR. Why is it so? Mobile wallets.

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Q2 2019 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities

Version One Ventures

We welcomed Dolly (same -day retail delivery service) to our portfolio, after participating in a $7.5m Ada , a market leader in automated customer experience , launched Ada Glass. This provides a seamless customer handoff from Ada’s AI-powered chatbot to live chat platform partners including Zendesk, SalesForce, and Nuance.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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The Best Project Management Framework for Startups

The Startup Magazine

It is important to use project portfolio management (PPM) for implementing your agile at scale methodology or to upgrade your portfolio. The product and business owner has the big picture vision, the Scrum Master helps make it a reality, and the development team is responsible for actually making those ideas a reality.

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