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5 Ways Your Sales Team Can Get More Out Of The Company’s CRM

YoungUpstarts

CRM platforms are already firmly ensconced within the sales technology and strategies of most small and midsized businesses. Sales teams have been using their CRMs for basic, day-to-day-functions — such as managing customer information and tracking purchase history — for decades. Go mobile or go home.

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How to Deliver More Software Projects On Time

Both Sides of the Table

There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” If you’ve been involved with a number of software projects you already have an intuitive sense for this. If you pull hard at the time end of the spectrum you end up shipping inferior product.

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Are You A Necessity Entrepreneur? Ask These 7 Questions

YoungUpstarts

Execut­ing an idea and selling products is a path to providing for people we care about. For example, do you fly out to a big indus­try conference to close some sales, or do you stay home to attend your daughter’s high school graduation? To fulfill these promises, you have to have the idea, build the product, and take it to market.

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

YoungUpstarts

The traditional advantages of small businesses over corporations are personalized service and an inventory of niche products tailored to their local market. In light of this, software developers are beginning to cater to the digital transformation needs of SMBs. Solutions aimed at SMBs are more widely available.

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What Are Apps Doing With Your Data? Five Things To Know About Data Privacy And Security

YoungUpstarts

If an app or tool is “free,” it’s likely collecting revenue from advertising rather than sales, which means that your data — everything from number of logins to location to the number of times you visit the app in a day — is potentially being shared with third-party sites, either in a direct or de-identified form.

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Three Methodologies That Help Businesses Stay Creative

YoungUpstarts

It was adopted in the software development industry. It follows a linear, sequential process and is the most common version of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for IT and software engineering projects. In this methodology, leadership inspires teamwork, face-to-face communication , and accountability.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.