YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

They of course need to be agile and adaptable, but home businesses should still have some formalized planning and structure. A plan also helps to organize the data and ingrains accountability and transparency into the business, which is important even for solo operations. by David Zimmerman, CEO of LC Technology International .

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

Technology 206

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

Don’t count on good employees grown internally, and don’t make it only a sporadic effort. Bezos believes that if you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your agility, and thus outpace your competitors. Recruit and reward a small integrated team to break boundaries.

Silicon Valley 367

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Presenting your startup vision as a founder to a potential investor, or presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives.

Technology 162

Technology Agile Architecture Distribution 162

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To overcome these challenges, leaders will need to keep people at the center of our conversations, and organizations will need to help their employees build emotional intelligence and expert people skills. Think of the agility that comes with CAI, etc. Thanks to Jenn Denfield, Emergenetics International ! #5-

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft left the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

This number sequence is three days in the physical office, two days where employees work remotely from home, and then two days off. It is a nod to how employees were able to successfully embrace working from home during the pandemic: working remote and from home five days a week. Being agile, nimble, and quick.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Throughout the different phases of the pandemic, we have spent even more time with our existing customers and actively sought out their advice on how we can make our platform and services better as this distributed work environment continues. 8-Stay agile. Thanks to Ablorde Ashigbi, 4Degrees ! Photo Credit: Jimmy Chebat.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

In addition to cash flow, operational and organizational challenges often have a bigger impact on small businesses than larger companies as they typically have fewer resources at their disposal. These days, it’s not uncommon for companies large and small to be completely distributed, i.e., have a wholly remote workforce.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Some companies use a suggestion box, others like Google give employees 20% of their time to work on their own projects. To manage these employees companies create metrics to control, measure and reward execution.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2015

To move innovation faster, we now have 21 st century tools — Business Model Canvas , Customer Development , Agile Engineering – all adding up to a Lean Startup. Here the company executes a known business model (known customers, product features, competitors, pricing, distribution channel, supply chain, etc.)

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2019

Put simply, enterprise mobility is a business practice that involves: Allowing Employees to Work Remotely. Allowing Employees to Utilize Personal Laptops. Allowing Employees to Utilize Personal Mobile Devices. You need to be able to communicate with your employees, stakeholders, and consumers. Lowered Costs for Operation.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2020

Create a productive space… Offices are designed to facilitate work and give employees the resources needed to effectively do their jobs. However, there are a variety of powerful systems available to bridge that gap and ensure you remain connected to the heart of your company’s operations.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2018

For manufacturers, this means having the capability to establish fully connected and digitized supply chains where product development, marketing, production, and distribution are all fully connected, thus increasing efficiency and output. Many companies are using Cloud Computing now for faster information processing and remote collaboration.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

With a nation-wide reliance on remote working schemes calling for countless employees to carry out the business’ essential processes from their own homes – proficient IT support and management has never been so important. Every company should have a firewall in place on their network, in order to control what’s accessible for employees.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2016

By Jay DesMarteau, head of small business and government banking distribution for TD Bank. The holiday season has begun, and small business owners in the retail and hospitality industries are operating in what is often their busiest time of year. First, the focus should be on the front line – the staff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2010

Presenting an idea as an employee to an executive, or presenting your startup as a founder to an investor, requires that you effectively communicate, or “translate”, the value proposition into terms that the receiver can fully understand and appreciate. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. Data security.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

These range from budgets being significantly smaller, profit margins being squeezed, and employees juggling various roles to meet the needs of the company. Despite their relatively small operational footprint, SMBs can still manage highly complex jobs, ranging from internal software development projects to client-facing deliverables.

Small Business 173

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Up and Running

JULY 30, 2014

Are you micromanaging your employees? Chambers says that micromanagers are motivated to act by three things: personal comfort, potential employee confusion, and fear of failure. Project outcomes are easier to predict if the manager lays out every expectation and guideline for his or her employees in advance—no last-minute surprises.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2015

You’ll have to work hard to maintain your relationships, so you should be setting up regular calls to access the tone and satisfaction of those employees at the location. The right software will unite your workforce whether they are in finance, distribution or manufacturing so that everyone is up-to-date on all processes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The speed and agility you want? When it comes to building private cloud, the professional vendors, analysts, and practitioners focus on four basic tenets that should be in operation so that the IT department should take full advantage of the private cloud setup: Converged Infrastructure. What is the Cloud?

Cloud 162

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

They operate on the premise that if you don't get results, you won't get results. Additionally, some employees have requested that they work remotely, which has not been possible so far. It's important to keep business agile. 14- Adapt operations. Photo Credit: Adam Wood. This isn't the same as an influencer campaign.

Entrepreneur 126

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

million kids, and 135,000 employees. I knew that nearly everything I''d want to do would be anathema to standard operating procedure. My deliverable is not software per se (though sometimes there is that too), but alternative models for operating and engaging, a different way for DOE employees to view and go about their own work.

Lean 162

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2015

There’s so many small businesses in New Zealand alone; 95 percent of businesses in this country have ten employees or less. “Time has always been our biggest problem,” Michael notes, saying that when you’re a small operation, not having a enough time to invest in the business can limit its growth.

New Zealand 60

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? From Brittle to Robust.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Ed Fry – Customer Data Operations: Unleashing your hidden growth engine. In an A/A test the distribution of p-values is random. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. You get to call all the shots, including how you want to operate the business and who you want to be involved. On the other hand, it’s a slow process.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Fast forward 20 years, 3 kids and a roller coaster journey – I look back knowing that having to reinvent myself over and over has taught me skills about emotional and sales agility. Also, it was rather an operational than a technological business. Thanks to Louise Taylor, Unbridled Pty Ltd ! #14- 14- For faster and more control.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? If you are a handful of employees small business, here's your balance between data capture , data reporting , data analysis : 05 | 20 | 25. No organization will be born into this 10 | 25 | 65 distribution on day one. No problem.

Analytics 60

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SVPG

MAY 2, 2016

Just as I described the ten biggest problems in the context of the Waterfall model, I described the ten attributes of successful teams in the context of the Continuous Discovery and Delivery model (also known as Dual Track Agile, or Discovery Sprints and Delivery Sprints). You can watch that talk here , or read the narrative article here.

Product 60

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. Canadian operator Rogers filed to become a bank last year. FAQ A: What about Square?

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Restaurant owners and employees are being treated extremely poorly by many customers since service has changed with the lack of staffing. 7- The service operations industry. Things like Insurance Claims operations or Loan Operations that previously wanted a1000 people in a single service center in one or two shifts.

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