Sat.Jun 30, 2018

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5 Effective Tips For Sprint Planning Meetings

The Startup Magazine

Sprint Planning is an imperative process of achieving the objectives of any agile team. The entire team must come up with a set of backlog items that they need to complete during the Sprint Planning meeting. The length of the sprint will be defined by the agreement made by the team. Source: Pixabay. The Sprint meeting must be facilitated by the Scrum Master and clarifications about the product backlog items must be provided by a Product Owner.

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5 Tips For Stress-Free Business Travel

YoungUpstarts

As an entrepreneur who has goals of growing a startup into a flourishing business, networking plays a catalytic role in accomplishing key objectives. There’s the need to pitch investors, build partnerships with suppliers, meet with prospects, and maintain healthy relationships with customers. In many cases, this means business travel. The problem with business travel is that it’s traditionally filled with friction and contention.

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GDPR is here, but it doesn’t mean your business is done prepping

The Next Web

It’s been just a few weeks since the General Data Protection Regulation came into effect, and aside from some high level lawsuits from activist lawyers looking to prove a point, it’s been pretty much business as usual. The media portrayed GDPR as the next and possibly more disruptive Y2K, like at midnight on May 25, 2018, the data breach police would be knocking down doors and shuttering businesses.

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Why Young Entrepreneurs Should Also Be Investing (And How To Get Started)

YoungUpstarts

Young entrepreneurs often get involved in entrepreneurship with the hopes of long-term financial success; they want to make enough money to live on indefinitely, sell the business for a fortune, or retire early after reaching a certain landmark. However, even with the best business, there’s no guarantee of success, with about half of all businesses failing in the first five years.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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How to offer secure checkout to your customers

The Startup Magazine

If there’s one thing that customers want from an online shopping experience, it’s to feel that their information is secure. Although most of us are now used to buying goods and services online, many people are still concerned about internet security. And in fact, shoppers are right to be worried. Instances of cyber-attacks and digital security breaches are on the rise.

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How To Improve Your Payment Process Step By Step

YoungUpstarts

According to research, 68% of UK consumers have abandoned an online retail site because of the payment process. This could be because the process seemed long, complicated or insecure, or simply because the customer didn’t have the required payment method to hand when it was time to pay. Streamlining your payment process will help to ensure that customers go the distance and complete their purchase.

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