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Why Real Learning is Outside the Building, Not Demo Day

Steve Blank

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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Even Branding Should Be Agile: An Interview With Base Creative’s Matthew Kinsman

Up and Running

Thirteen years later, Kinsman is a veteran of the industry and a thought leader advocating in Forbes for an agile approach. The agile strategy is all about brand flexibility. If you offer an online service, host webinars, have contests on social media, design a virtual tour of your facility. It makes sense.

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How To Hire And Train A New Employee During The Summer (When Most People Are On Vacation)

YoungUpstarts

For example, HR might opt to set up and record a webinar that trainees can view from their desktops or mobile devices. Although training and onboarding will often have an on-site component, it’s convenient to have the option to perform some of these tasks via remote collaboration.

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[Interview] Louis Carter, Author Of ‘In Great Company: How To Spark Peak Performance By Creating An Emotionally Connected Workplace’

YoungUpstarts

We offer peer-to-peer networking, learning and research resources, benchmarking opportunities, a library of webinars, podcasts, publications, and more. When you lose your entrepreneurial culture as you grow, you lose your agility. We reach over 500,000 management professionals. I do the same thing in my company. Don’t let this happen.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.

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How to Build Robust User Personas in Under a Month

ConversionXL

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.

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8 predictions that will affect the way we sell this decade

NZ Entrepreneur

It’s about becoming more agile. We’ve now added in digital sales and marketing channels – social media, SEO, content marketing, Google and Facebook advertising, influencer marketing, webinars, zoom calls, inbound marketing and more. 2) Business Authenticity. All the traditional sales channels still exist. 5) Outbound Sales.