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

Transformify

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. 20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Scrum, Agile, Product Management.

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Factors in Structuring a Product Organization

SVPG

For nearly every organization that has grown beyond a very early stage startup, one of the most common, yet difficult, questions is the optimal way to split up the product work. As soon as you have more than one product manager, or more than one interaction designer, teams face this question.

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

Mucker Lab

My father eventually decided on Santa Clara (Saratoga, more specifically), and so I grew up in the shadows of the orchards of Cupertino and the nondescript concrete startup boxes of Santa Clara. Encyclopedic knowledge of term sheets and startup buzzwords can be quickly learned, trained, and packaged.

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An ongoing discussion on linkedin about Offshore Web Development and building a team in Europe.

Scalable Startup

Tom Nora Startup Whisperer, Web Market Development. I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. Our strategy was to move to a distributed model where the entire scrum team works together offshore. web development projects.

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Startups and a Common Misunderstanding in Agile Software Development

SoCal CTO

I've done four Free CTO Consulting Sessions in the past month with startup founders who all had run into variations of the same problem. Investors and early customers were becoming worried about the ability of the founder to deliver. They didn't feel they had visibility into timelines and costs for development of their software.

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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

My startup team has just gone distributed, after eight months of being remote. Mature teams differ from early-stage teams, larger teams differ from smaller teams etc. Solution #1: At least once a week have a scrum meeting that absolutely everyone prioritizes. After the scrum, if time allows, hang out and catch up.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

How would one set up such a startup to eventually raise capital from outside VCs, who will be wary of ‘dead equity’ (i.e., In others, this becomes an insurmountable obstacle and the company folds because of the passive investor / early dev shop that doesn’t really have any skin in the game or ability to help strategically post launch.