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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

YoungUpstarts

They enjoy the same advantages as other SMEs, such as the agility to respond quickly to market changes, a collaborative DNA that fosters innovation, and the absence of the institutional inertia that often plagues larger organizations [7]. Or consider Local Motors, an Arizona-based car company with a difference.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Create Space to Think, Strategize and Grow Their Organization

Hearpreneur

Use Agile Practices: Adopting agile methodologies has promoted faster development and ongoing innovation at both my companies. Thanks to James Heartquist, We Buy Houses Arizona ! #27- This ensures these crucial activities don't get overshadowed by day-to-day tasks. It's vital for both my roles at Strategic Pete and WebStreet.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In addition to being the only other thing I had ever been a leader of, I felt the dragonfly accurately represented the brand I was trying to create: they can fly in all directions, and are therefore agile, and they eat mosquitoes, with represented our commitment to an ethical approach to digital marketing (not sucking blood from our clients).

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Rewiring Organizations For A Successful Digital Transformation

Duct Tape Marketing

And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well. Do you really have a proper agile operating model? And it's sort of become like a standard business school textbook. They were the same mm-hmm. ,

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Developing a 21st Century Entrepreneurship Curriculum

Steve Blank

The class was designed to teach educators (and the entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship. Sidnee Peck from Arizona State University’s Carey School of Business attended the last Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. .

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Simple Lessons In Never Giving Up

Duct Tape Marketing

Martha is also a former United States representative and a former United States Senator from Arizona. She's also a former United States representative and a former United States Senator from Arizona. She’s the author of the book — Dare to Fly: Simple Lessons in Never Giving Up. So Martha, welcome to the show.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Google is in my opinion the best big company to work at.