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[Interview] Michael K. Levine, Author Of “People Over Process: Leadership for Agility”

YoungUpstarts

I was an early adopter in financial operations and software of lean operational and product development techniques that originated at Toyota, and then of agile as it was promulgated in the Manifesto. I was the only person from software or finance. They taught leadership, not just scrum. I still love and use scrum widely.

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

YoungUpstarts

The problem, is historically, the investment in time and resources required for traditional digital solutions can feel out of reach, and the type of programs used by corporations aren’t practical for SMBs for daily operations like reporting, inventory, or accounting. apps to manage their operations, up from 3.8 Automation.

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

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well. English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop.

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The Best Free Apps and Online Tools for Entrepreneurs and Obsessive Collectors

Up and Running

Of course, if you’re operating a business, it’s not always a good idea to work in a bubble. You can create an unlimited number of accounting reports, create and send unlimited invoices, scan receipts, manage your personal finances, and get access to free email support. After all, how do you know what your competition is doing?

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. The result is a combination of design thinking, Lean Startup, and Agile Scrum, and Ignacio’s innovation team includes 25 coaches who train employees in PACE best practices. LESSON #2: Forget innovation.

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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games. Similarly there is no operation/admin team to operate the servers or other parts of infrastructure. Knowledge sharing.