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

YoungUpstarts

by Humberto Farias, CEO and co-founder at Concepta. The problem, is historically, the investment in time and resources required for traditional digital solutions can feel out of reach, and the type of programs used by corporations aren’t practical for SMBs for daily operations like reporting, inventory, or accounting. Automation.

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Should Your Startup Be an Agile Company

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The goal of this article is to look at this decision from a number of viewpoints and to try and guide startup founders towards a decision that will make the most sense for them. Of course, one or two-person startups will probably not require any kind of a structured agile approach as they will operate as a tightly-knit unit by default.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

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From my vantage point as a business lawyer for entrepreneurs, one of the greatest frustrations for a well-intentioned company or founder comes in attempting to comply with all applicable laws and regulations without necessarily even knowing what they are.

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Values Build Startup Culture: A Founder’s Take on Getting Started

View from Seed

This is a guest post from Ben Rubin , co-founder and CEO of Change Collective , which offers courses for behavior change with world-class experts. When my co-founder Derek and I sat down to start Change Collective, we had two things driving us: impact and culture. (I’ve How can it not? Values at Change Collective.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I would add -- think of your development and running your business like a PM/Developer uses Agile or Scrum in software development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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7 Highlights from Lean Startup Week

Startup Lessons Learned

To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … For example, if a chief executive officer manages the daily operation, a chief entrepreneur heads up innovation efforts. LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. Indeed the first thing I thought when I read the first paragraphs that the product manager was operating in a white tower and that the developers felt disenfranchised. This post has been removed by the author. Nice write-up.