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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

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In 2020, the company had plans to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU) in Africa for its video-on-demand service, iROKOtv, from $7-8 to $20-25. However , more bad news came in August when the CEO announced that the company was laying off 150 people. Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

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While some Ukrainian start-ups have relocated, the vast majority have kept at least a part of their operations or team in Ukraine. As the war began, the company relocated the team of 70 to safer regions in western Ukraine and EU. The company continued hiring developers and marketers and raised the team by around 10%.

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Finding Career Opportunities Through Experimentation with Josh Doody

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According to Doody, the key is to stop thinking in binary terms of “good” and “bad” outcomes and optimize for learning, instead. Thinking of outcomes as a spectrum rather than “good” or “bad” (5:13). Good” and “bad” are subjective terms when it comes to experimentation (32:39). Marcus: I love the sports metaphor.

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AoAD2 Practice: Team Dynamics

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020, 2021 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Team Dynamics.

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How femtech startup Inne rebooted its hardware launch after COVID-19 chaos

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But the coronavirus pandemic created a cascade of new challenges for Rapti and her team around supply chain and logistics — upsetting their careful calculations on unit economics. As well a s having shelled out to set up a production line it suddenly had to suspend, Inne had also doubled the size of its team to prepare for scaling.

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AoAD2 Practice: Alignment

James Shore

This is a pre-release excerpt of The Art of Agile Development, Second Edition , to be published by O’Reilly in 2021. Visit the Second Edition home page for information about the open development process, additional excerpts, and more. This excerpt is copyright 2007, 2020 by James Shore and Shane Warden. Coaches, Whole Team.