YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2017

Business intelligence (BI) is the gateway for achieving greater agility. Agility in this sense means the flexibility to make more informed decisions based on a diverse array of data outlining consumer patterns and purchasing behavior. KPIs here can also include individual employee performance. BI is reliant on high-quality data.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

4- Remain agile as a brand. For 2021, my number one goal is to be able to remain agile as a brand to be able to come out on the right side of the changes that are and will continue to come out of the global pandemic because I believe we are shifting to new ways of doing business, a different economy, and changing consumer behavior.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

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. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . That in itself is quite a challenge.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

It also improves employees’ productivity by allowing them to focus on vital business operations. Chatbots can answer questions and accept payments while your employees establish partnerships. 5000 , a blog about the fastest-growing business models.

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Board Effect

MARCH 22, 2022

The pandemic revealed just how innovative and agile community banks could be as they moved swiftly to adapt their operating strategies and continue serving the new needs of their customers. Community bank employees, customers, nonprofits, and banking industry stakeholders all play a role in making positive change. .

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

Practice Agile Development. We practice agile development principles, and having the constant feedback between business and development that agile suggests is key to successful integration of the two teams. At Red Branch, we stress that employees’ skills have distinct market values. Andrew Thomas , SkyBell.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

It’s important enough that I dedicate a tab on my blog to startup sales & marketing. when is the right time to hire your first sales employee? agile sales process? It’s the lifeblood of any organization and yet most startups don’t have any sales DNA on their teams. When & Whom should you hire?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. I am looking to reopen offices in a smaller capacity when it is safe to do so and when my employees are comfortable with returning. I am listening to my employees and asking for their opinions on how to implement positive changes to make significant improvements to our future work environment.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But did you know that founder Markus Frind has just 3 employees for his $10MM+ revenue business? You should keep your employees as 1099s as long as possible (there are state and federal guidelines on this that your accountant will help you comply with). Better to do personal outreach to blogs/local media. Start a blog.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Agile – you may find the real opportunities for your company was somewhere else. Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Selecting the right workforce planning model can help solve these problems for many nonprofits as it is not cost-effective to have employees standing idle during a shift, and employees who feel overworked may lose their enthusiasm for the job. Employee development. Knowledge transfer. Succession management. Improve Retention .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An irreversible decision is firing an employee, launching your product, a five-year lease for an expensive new building, etc. That’s why startups are agile. Startups that are agile have mastered one other trick – and that’s Tempo – the ability to make quick decisions consistently over extended periods of time.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

That’s why it’s smarter to embrace the agile approach and constantly test your idea on the market to learn about the needs and desires of your target. Building a well-organized team of competent and dedicated employees is critical for the life of your startup. Choose the right location. Manage your growth.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To overcome these challenges, leaders will need to keep people at the center of our conversations, and organizations will need to help their employees build emotional intelligence and expert people skills. Once reformatted for usage on other platforms, video content can also be used to create blog content. Photo Credit: George Beatty.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 16, 2020

Several years ago, I blogged about the training program we created for entry-level employees at Return Path, including an embedded presentation that we used to use (which I hope still works on the blog after all these years). I came up with the attached, and thought it might make for a good blog post on Only Once.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

Whether it’s heading downtown to meet a client, flying across the country to attend a conference or just simply heading to grab a cup of coffee, many entrepreneurs and small business owners — as well as their employees — are constantly on the go. Additionally, Eyal was one of the first employees of Old Lane, a $5.5B to be productive.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Trello also maintains a super creative blog that will show you how you might use their product: to take the stress out of the holiday season, to plan an office party, to search for a job, and to plan a meal. Don’t have a website or blog? Take a look at Palo Alto Software employee profiles: Noah Parsons and Josh Cochrane.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well. Eric, love the blog.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. sourced from the Scrum Guide.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Jeff keeps a blog here ( www.jeffgothelf.com/blog ) with tweets available at @jboogie ( www.twitter.com/jboogie ). Can an established organization with a recognized brand, proven revenue stream and an employee count in the hundreds or thousands embrace these principles?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In a recent blog post, Kanbanize CEO, Dimitar Karaivanov, effectively summarizes the spirit of kanban: “One of the main principles … is the goal of eliminating bottlenecks by imposing realistic limits on how much work is in progress, how much work is requested, and how much work is held off on the back burner. Then Lead Them. Final Thoughts.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

This blog post aims to highlight five crucial ways through which data is used to redefine the essence of your business in 2024. This means investing in the right tools and training programs that empower employees to use data. Well, it’s not just about the cold, hard numbers or the endless spreadsheets that might come to mind.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

This article, which originally appeared on our LivePlan Blog , is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Too many meetings are run poorly, have no real objective, and waste employees’ time—which kills productivity. They’re right. Long range goals and strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Thanks for this post, I was going to buy the book anyway after reading Stevens blog but this post definitely made me get it faster (just ordered).

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As we continue to work from home, it has become an essential tool for remote employees. For me, it's a live example of agile and sustainable business. Photo Credit: Curtis Lawson. Before the COVID-19 epidemic, this platform was a great video conferencing tool. Photo Credit: Jeremy Goldman.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Survey your employee base to find out if your values are authentic. Do they help your employees know how to act? In partnership with the Wall Street Journal, ServiceNow released a series of branded content that covers topics like low-code IT solutions, workflows, and the habits of agile companies.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Instead of using infrastructure of the 1990s with wording from the 1970s, companies should let their employees be their spokespeople and hire through word of mouth. First of all the cases where the integration of the new small agile and innovative company into a large corporate worked are few and far between. Rockstars Need Roadies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. And if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you may know that IMVU started out as an instant messaging add-on. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Employee Engagement. Agile Development. Thanks to Alex Popsecu’s NoSql blog , found a well articulated thesis by Johan den Haan , CTO at Mendix. Agile Development (6). Employee Engagement (3). Adventure Travel. Bike Tours. Content Marketing. Engagement Tracking. Conversation Management. B2B Sales Process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Ill do my best to match deserving people up with appropriate sponsors, and Ill be glad to recognize those that give on the blog and at the conference itself. I am wondering if your event will be streamed live (or at least you will blog about it) as I will not be able this summer to visit the US (i am currently in Canada). Expo SF (May.

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Where to Play

MARCH 23, 2020

To emphasize this, Steve Blank suggests a crystal-clear message in his recent blog post : “if you’re leading any startup or small business, you have to be asking yourself: What’s Plan B? Companies in almost all industries are shutting down activities and sending employees home. And what’s in my lifeboat?”

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The Next Web

JULY 12, 2014

This post originally appeared on the 15Five blog. I used to imagine that I could peer into the silent void of a discussion with an employee and their thoughts and feelings would magically pop in my head. We are in the employee feedback business. It never happened.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I used to give copies of Four Steps out to my employees, in the hopes that it would instantly indoctrinate them into the methodology of Customer Development. I used to give copies of Four Steps out to my employees, in the hopes that it would instantly indoctrinate them into the methodology of Customer Development. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Employees only. By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. Eric is the creator of the Lean Startup methodology and the author of the popular entrepreneurship blog Startup Lessons Learned. Ries, the guru behind the “Lean Startup” sensation, asks: Is your startup employee-centric and knowledge-obsessed?

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