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5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups. Assemble an engaged new venture advisory board.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. Between Board Meetings. Communicating Between Board Meetings. The Agile Board. The Problem with Board Observers.

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3 Step Brand Makeover: Make Purpose Your Brand

YoungUpstarts

co-authors of “ The Purpose Revolution: How Leaders Create Engagement and Competitive Advantage in an Age of Social Good “ Today’s professionals and entrepreneurs are agile. In the case of employees over 77% say working for a company they believe in matters to them with about 37% of the global workforce are purpose driven.

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Making Friends With Millennials: Evolving The Customer Service Story

YoungUpstarts

As the world’s first global generation, life is first and foremost about choice. According to the Connected Life report by global research consultancy TNS Singapore, Singapore’s millennials spend an average of one day a week, or 3.4 They are highly educated and mobile centric. hours per day, on their mobile phones.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning. Pivotal Tracker â??

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.