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

YoungUpstarts

This means finance, operations, sales, and marketing departments as well as leadership can all access the same data. Post to a social media network. This also creates a place for hosting all of your data. With BI capabilities, departments can now get rid of spreadsheets and visualize data through a central dashboard.

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

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. 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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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

In the same vein, because not as many entrepreneurs in Los Angeles worked at companies like Google or Facebook, a lot of them have not really gotten the training they need to properly communicate requirements, run a scrum, or conduct A/B testing. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

” Then we needed a permit to go unescorted, or something. ”But my credentials are for a television network. The risk-reward tradeoff in finance should hold true in developing and unstable regions as well. . ”Why? This is personal, not a professional assignment.” Do you see a TV crew with me?”

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Managing Risk and Improving Efficiency of the Supply Chain

Up and Running

. “Industry Week” recently commented on how the impact of globalization on supply chain networks has made supply chain management increasingly complex. “A The consequent increase in complexity of market, channel, supply networks and distributed facilities has rendered related planning more intricate and complex.”.

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Using independent teams to scale a small company: A look at how games company Wooga works

The Next Web

The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games. It’s a good way to spread knowledge and start discussion throughout the company and increase networking.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So it’s not necessarily true, but if you are like another popular group in Chexts is younger people who don’t have a lot of money to manage, but they don’t need financing and all of that stuff. Which is similar, it has less of a SCRUM-my feel to it. Try to get those good customers who are going to pay for it.

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