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

Transformify

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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The most valuable lessons I learned from managing a virtual team

The Next Web

The difference between “remote” and “distributed” is that in a remote team, there is a company office(s) where some team members are based full-time. A distributed team has no location base – everyone is in a different place. But distributiveness solves a lot of problems, including that of being remote. My kind of office view….

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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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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. Even worse, DVD sales were starting to lag, and a Hollywood backlash further muddied the situation. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices.

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How to Scale Organic Traffic (Without Writing a Million Blog Posts)

ConversionXL

It’s more than just a distribution channel. It quickly shows that “[item] for sale” is a query syntax eBay ranks well for but Amazon doesn’t. As a result, a (theoretical) opportunity for Amazon would be to add a feature that lists item categories “for sale” on its marketplace. Hidden gems. Know the process.

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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.”. All of these aforementioned costs increase when you encounter low order volumes, or, put differently, low sales. After all, without inventory you can’t make sales.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

turn customer feedback into sales and relationships. free, distributed source code control management system. Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. SaaS Sales Team Compensation â?? Startups For Sale.