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The Surprising Ways a Distributed Team Can Help Your Company Succeed

crowdSPRING Blog

I love working with people from around the world and truly believe that distributed teams provide huge benefits for small businesses and startups. Even worse, some companies, like Yahoo, have rolled back their distributed teams. Business owners report that their biggest concern with distributed teams is lower levels of productivity.

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

Mucker Lab

In fact, employees of these huge platform companies often do not know how to growth-hack their way from a standing start; they may be too accustomed to the massive traffic and structural advantages of their previous employers. While such an experience would be nice, it certainly is not a pre-requisite.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

There are several ways to make progress evident - the Scrum team model is my current favorite. If you have a true cross-functional team, empowered (a la Scrum) to do whatever it takes to succeed its likely they will converge on the result quickly. I would add, though, a further question: Do new employees write code on their first day?

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Managing Risk and Improving Efficiency of the Supply Chain

Up and Running

The consequent increase in complexity of market, channel, supply networks and distributed facilities has rendered related planning more intricate and complex.”. This is because your employees are required to handle that inventory more often, thereby increasing the risk that damage will occur. Low inventory and high order volumes.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

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. But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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How To Scale a Development Team

adam.heroku.com

Founders and early employees tend to be very self-directed so the need for management is nearly non-existent. For example: full-fledged SCRUM, heavyweight tools like Jira, or hiring a project manager or engineering manager. Everyone is a generalist and works on a little bit of everything. Don’t do that stuff.

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7 Account-Based Marketing Examples and Lessons

ConversionXL

They also use multi-channel content distribution to improve brand awareness and meet prospects where they already are. LiveRamp identified the attributes that their high-value accounts have in common: 5000+ employees for enterprise companies; $50M+ in annual revenue; Located in retail, CPG, insurance, and automotive industries.

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