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

The Next Web

Hire T-Shaped People. Make sure to hire T-shaped individuals. Systems such as Scrum can help separate departments communicate effectively, and that is an absolute necessity. Tech teams also need to understand that without business development, there is no revenue to pay their salaries. Logan Lenz , Endagon.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Hire one from each.

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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. The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

And this rapid prototyping thing when your back's against the wall and your revenue model's gone from 100% to 10%, if you're a small business, restaurant owner or you're running a small curbside, even a consignment store, I'm trying to help a leader understand how he can serve. So, how are you investing in being even better?

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

David Teten

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Help identify key technologist and product hires to transition in-house (week 13 onward, however this can take 1 year).

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The Surprising Ways a Distributed Team Can Help Your Company Succeed

crowdSPRING Blog

But it’s not just about saving money and increasing revenues. Distributed teams allow companies to hire better employees. Hire the best talent, regardless of where it is.” Luckily, we have found a way to make sure no team member has to work unnatural hours for our daily scrums. There is however, much more.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Totally automate all that so it doesn’t bring me down all the time and instead I can sign all the revenue, because that’s fun. Like the ability to spend X dollars on advertising and gain Y dollars in revenue or something like that. Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. Patrick: How close did he get?

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