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12 ways to get your business development and tech teams on the same page

The Next Web

Here’s a problem I bet every non-technical founder has experienced: the communication gap between what the biz dev team wants and what the tech team thinks they want, and vice versa. You need to build trust between these teams. This makes people more aware of what their team members are up to and creates more harmony.

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Guest Post: Staying Innovative as Your Business Grows (Part One)

OnlyOnce

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. If we drove revenue above costs, we got to take home a salary. It was stressful, but productively stressful and fun. We’ve done a lot of different things, but the major focus has been, well, focus.

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19 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Business Quotes

Hearpreneur

This generation wants an overlap of ‘work and play’ and looks for benefits outside of salary increases. If these projects or action items don’t contribute to building the product or getting new customers, consider canceling or de-prioritizing them! At least re-assess them periodically. 13) Keep Advertising.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

sites from scratch - Experienced with the majority of the social api’s (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Meebo, PayPal, Flickr) - Experience managing offshore dev teams - Most recently a Director of Product Development at an early stage funded startup [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: finding your co-founders [.]

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

Both Sides of the Table

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I learned how to establish sales targets and how to manage a sales pipeline.