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

YoungUpstarts

CMOs who employ AI-powered marketing report significant gains in customer retention, engagement, and lifetime loyalty. Predictive analytics help determine the most effective markets for adspend, suggesting areas where the product is being well-received and those where the cost of customer acquisition is unreasonably high.

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Are Agile Innovation Methods Right for Your Team?

The Startup Magazine

This means the holding of daily scrum meetings and the ability of all involved employees to talk about barriers and discuss status, as well as input from the product owner. Are your teams co-located? — If you have team members working remotely and across the country, they would no doubt benefit from working under an agile approach.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- With the development of more option for team communication, project management, and customer retention, I can only expect better things for my business. And with technology, keeping up is the only thing left to do. 10- Streamline things in our business. Photo credit: Ben Walker.

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

Mucker Lab

If you took a random sample of 100 entrepreneurs here in LA, over 50% might not be able to tell you how to technically calculate 90-day cohort retention or how to build a cash flow statement. That number in the Valley might be closer to 10%. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management.

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Episode 13: How to Solve Problems in Your Business, Human Resources, and #Zappos | The Bcast

Up and Running

In this episode, Peter and Jonathan discuss Kaizen, Kanban, and Scrum methodology and how they can be applied to small businesses. Atlassian: A Brief Introduction to Scrum. Forbes: Scrum is a Major Management Discovery . Scrum is more of a process, an application of process. You do Scrum every week.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. SEO Keyword Analysis Tool. Online Marketing Suites. HubSpot -Â online marketing and web analytics system. Performable â?? Custora â??

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.