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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. One of The Social Network’s most memorable lines is when actor Justin Timberlake utters the words, “A million dollars isn’t cool.

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17 Entrepreneurs Explain How Technology Will Affect Their Business Tomorrow

Hearpreneur

First, I encourage business owners to create resources on your website or social network feeds for clients to better understand the products that are provided. Thanks to Paul Lewis, Scrum Explainer ! #10- Thanks to Avinash Chandra, BrandLoom ! #6- 6- Two strategies. Photo credit: Jake Irving. Photo credit: Ben Walker.

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Learn Corporate Communication Tricks In Slack

YoungUpstarts

People communicate in social networks, write each other emails or connect via video-calls. It is also convenient if you wish to manage remote team meetings or improve your Scrum productivity at any stage. The world of corporate communication is increasingly moving online. Slack holds a remarkable place among them.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

Topics are an important feature for social networks, just as genres are for music or categories for ecommerce sites. If you can’t invite people into your office and squeeze a new feature out of them, you have two options: Use social networks or a user-testing platform. Quora did just that. Know the process.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

Social, Agile, and Transformation. social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Business minded, agile CIO with strong social networking background. Top CIOs talk Social Networking Usage and Policy. No Scrum Master? and business transformation. Monday, June 18, 2012.

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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. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. No more, no less. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

The new ones are obviously offering more social network awareness and more ways to communicate, so that’s kind of where everyone is moving. Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. You don’t have to mess with all these other filters and dimensions and what not. Pivotal does that.

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