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What Is Leadership?

YoungUpstarts

This past year I asked Don Faul to come and speak about Leadership and what he has learned in his career as a Special Forces marine, and senior executive at Google, Facebook, Pinterest and Athos. The following seeks to capture the essence of his conversation with this year’s Fellows: What is Leadership? Becoming a Great Leader.

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5 Tips For Launching New App Features

YoungUpstarts

Is this for VIP customers or everyone?). Think about what your sales, marketing, customer success, or any other team will need in terms of understanding the feature being released, and how to answer any questions they might face. Shipping software is like a muscle, the more frequently you do it, the easier it is to execute.

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

YoungUpstarts

New data-powered solutions give companies that would ordinarily be too large to customize their offerings the insight to do so. SMBs falsely assume that custom analytics platforms and data science is too complicated. This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data.

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Customer Development is Not a Focus Group

Steve Blank

Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” As the engineers were busy rearchitecting the original Stanford MIPS chip into a commercial product, one of my jobs was to find out what features customers wanted.

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5 Reasons Employee Training At Your Business Should Never End

YoungUpstarts

If you have a team of software engineers, perhaps they could benefit with some soft skills training. If your team deals with infrastructure engineering you could send them for a one-day course on the cables and components they specify. Here are some of the top reasons your employee training should be permanently ongoing: 1.

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Twitter Link Roundup #248 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

We do like to talk about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! Building Trust In Client Relationships And The Power Of Saying “I Don’t Know” | Search Engine Journal – crowdspring.co/1CVzygR. I hope you enjoy!

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Recruiting Should Be Your #1 Priority From Day 1

YoungUpstarts

As an example, the reasons we provide to prospective engineers are 1. impactful work (we point to specific features that are being used by 100s of customers) and 3. For example, if you run a tech startup , you will know how hard it is to find good software engineers. cutting edge technology (WebRTC), 2. Be Specific.

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