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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events.”

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Learning from the High Flyers, Part Two

Growthink Blog

Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. Or Dropbox raising $607 million over 9. They keep raising money because money buys speed. Now, for how long will they continue to do it? For as long as they are in business.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Banana Scrum â?? A tool simple as Scrum itself. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. aggregation. Nice and leanâ?? and free online Kanban tool. Kanban Tool â?? Another Kanban tool. Acunote â?? Agile project management. Agilezen â?? Lean project management. VersionOne â??