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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). by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. Buzzwords like data science, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics are being used by big companies with the ability to invest.

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

Transformify

20 % of the project managers are familiar with Scrum, but there are very few product managers – less than 1% of all. Of course, the hiring needs vary a lot and are dependent on the business model, but a skills gap analysis reveals that more product managers, programmers, and sales and marketing experts will be needed in the near future.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Because it is important for kids in North East Ohio to understand what high tech is and why and how a solution may be scalable, students were allowed to pitch any idea that could be solved using a mobile/web solution. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon.

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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. LA is the home of Snapchat, Tinder, and Whisper – social mobile apps swinging for the fences.

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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. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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The Lean LaunchPad Goes to Middle School

Steve Blank

Because it is important for kids in North East Ohio to understand what high tech is and why and how a solution may be scalable, students were allowed to pitch any idea that could be solved using a mobile/web solution. Scrum boards went up detailing everything they needed to accomplish by Friday afternoon.

Lean 196