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

YoungUpstarts

The digital revolution is disrupting the traditional business model for small and medium businesses (SMBs). This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta.

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Do they possess the skills, experience, and know – how for their businesses to be successful? The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences. Scrum, Agile, Product Management. Business / Finance.

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

Mucker Lab

In the same vein, because not as many entrepreneurs in Los Angeles worked at companies like Google or Facebook, a lot of them have not really gotten the training they need to properly communicate requirements, run a scrum, or conduct A/B testing. Furthermore, entrepreneurs don’t necessary build their businesses to be venture-funded.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

One commonly used approach is to identify widely felt “pain points” in the target market; build a workable solution to address them using particularly effective or efficient means; and if the business model pencils out, work like crazy to execute, execute, execute.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. With industries from banking to transportation being transformed and, in some instances, undermined by new business models and technology, executives are smart to wonder, “Are we next?” LESSON #2: Forget innovation.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

In this model, the product manager is really a backlog administrator. Lots of CEO’s tell me this is the model they’re in and it’s not working. If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So it’s not necessarily true, but if you are like another popular group in Chexts is younger people who don’t have a lot of money to manage, but they don’t need financing and all of that stuff.

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