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Agile Marketing: How to Implement Scrum for Digital Marketing

ConversionXL

Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. sourced from the Scrum Guide.

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Tips to Help you Think About Sales at Your Startup

Both Sides of the Table

how do you forecast? agile sales process? how should a VC do due diligence on sales operations? getting past the assistant. when to call. is it OK to call an exec on his mobile phone. how to handle intros. What is your sales process? call high or call low? how do you do pipeline reviews? Telesales versus field sales?

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DataRails Hires David Rosenberg as New VP of Customer Success

The Startup Magazine

DataRails allows companies to manage their data in Excel, operating as a front end to a cloud database , which makes it far more agile and easier to create accurate models.

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

So to get new divisions launched large optimistic forecasts are the norm. Ironically, one of the greatest risks in large companies is high pressure expectations to make these first pass forecasts that subvert an honest Customer Development process. Customer Development Without Agile Engineering Is A Plan For Failure.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. It has to find product-market fit before running out of cash. The result?

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Innovation: The Key To Entrepreneurial Success

YoungUpstarts

With Asia’s share of global research and development forecast to grow to 40% this year, the quest to drive innovation is at the forefront of conversation among business leaders and entrepreneurs in the region. Be agile and adapt to changing market needs – your customer’s needs are not static and they will continue to evolve.

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

I encourage entrepreneurs to correct course with a re-forecast early and often. So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility. Entrepreneur Jeff Magnusson provides a sample agile budgeting workbook.

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