YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 7, 2018
This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. Predictive analytics help determine the most effective markets for adspend, suggesting areas where the product is being well-received and those where the cost of customer acquisition is unreasonably high.
Transformify
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. The ‘’must have ingredients’’ of a strong start-up team are tech, product/project management, marketing, sales, and business/finance competences.
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Gust
AUGUST 22, 2012
The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well. English has become the lingua franca for doing business, while the technical jargon is as familiar (or cryptic) in Alexandria as in Mountain View: Scrum, sprints, Git, Cassandra, Hadoop.
Up and Running
NOVEMBER 18, 2015
As a new startup, you’re likely well aware of how inventory costs money and how those costs can quickly add up the longer you go without orders. However, did you also know that it costs your company money when you encounter zero inventory counts? So, how are these two cost categories broken down?
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Two particularly important roles include the chief venture capitalist, because the investment philosophy for invention is different than traditional finance, and the chief internal ambassador “who connects the two [functions] and builds bridges.” Focusing on the problem first has also proven cost-effective.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2020
They were 90 minute, I'll call it, sprints and the team started scrumming really as soon as we got back on Saturday night. So, companies are afraid, they start cutting costs, they start squeezing their own vendors to save money. They aren't USAA members, but"- Eric Ries : Oh, that's great.
SVPG
SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
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. Then there were challenges with fulfillment logistics, difficulty maintaining DVD quality, and trying to figure out how to do all this in a way that covered costs and generated some cash.
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