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CT-SPIN #56: Agile Venture Creation

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Martin Wright was unfortunately not able to present the talk and kindly arranged Dan Leech to stand in.

Dan joined Cape Venture Partners in 2008 and has since helped a number of technology businesses to raise capital from VC’s and angel investors. At this month’s event Dan will examine why Venture Capitalists are more impressed with a rapidly developed prototype than a 100 page business plan. We’ll take a look at real examples of what impresses a VC and what doesn’t and why it’s so important to adopt Agile if you’re going to be successful in attracting funding.

Slides: Agile Venture Creation.pdf

Snacks kindly sponsored by ScrumSense.

Wednesday, 21 April 2010, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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CT-SPIN #54: Agile Business Development

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Why only apply agile principles and practices when developing software? Why not be agile in life and in business as well? We have heard from a number of startups that do apply agile concepts in business. One of these companies is FireID. Malan Joubert, co-founder and CTO, will speak about the ways in which they have been able to iterate rapidly in the business domain, decrease the cost of learning and provide an agile roadmap for business development.

Slides: Agile Business Development

Snacks kindly sponsored by Factor10.

Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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