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16 Entrepreneurs Share Advice That’s The Complete Opposite of What They Learned Before Starting Their Venture

Hearpreneur

Reflecting on my own experience, I made the mistake of believing that my expertise in web development and internet marketing, coupled with my co-founder's design skills, would be enough to establish a successful internet marketing agency. I was convinced that valuing my people would pay dividends in retaining the good ones.

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25 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3- Social media’s importance and influence will only grow as the internet becomes more and more of a staple in people’s daily lives. People will associate businesses with their owners, which allows for more engagement between brands and consumers on the internet.

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Speed up or slow down? (for Harvard Business Review)

Startup Lessons Learned

Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ▼ March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

These changes pay increasing dividends, because each improvement now direclty frees up somebody in QA at the same time as reducing the total time of the certification step. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. No doubt about it, small batches are the way to go RT www.anonymity.eu.tc This is a fantastic article.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

Thats when this approach can pay huge dividends. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Reports Lets start with the reporting side of the equation.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

If thats not a team-wide phenomenon, then its still a form of waste, because everyone has to learn every lesson before it starts paying dividends. Labels: agile , product development , Test-driven development 11comments: William Pietri said. Share what you learn. As you refactor, you get smarter. Great post, Eric. Expo SF (May.

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Should Apple Buy Hungary?

Agile VC

increasing dividends or issuing preferred stock). For some reason the notion of Apple hiking the taxes of Hungary to fund a dividend recap just amuses me…. The satellite TV guys (DirecTV, Dish Network) have good pay TV businesses and nationwide coverage but lack a true broadband internet offering so they wouldn’t be a fit.

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