Originally published on Ventureburn. Hiring experienced technologists is difficult. Many are happy in their current positions, and the others are inundated with offers. With software developer employment projected to grow 17% by 2024–10% faster than the average occupational growth rate in the US — it’s incumbent upon employers to ensure they stand out from the crowd. […]
No Secrets: Why Honest, Frequent Feedback Is The Key To Your Culture
Originally published on Young Upstarts. Culture will make or break your startup. You can’t just create a company culture, but you can direct it in the way you develop leaders, review, and give feedback to every person in your organization. A structure of fair and frequent feedback will lead to a strong culture your employees […]
Deliver. Automate. Fail Fast. Succeed.
Originally published on Business2Community. Software development and startup companies have an almost endless list of things to do. Even if they complete all of their tasks, there’s no guaranteed formula for success. But in a landscape changing as quickly as technology is, adopting these four principles will give R&D groups the best chance to succeed. […]
Improve your startup strategy by focusing on 3 time-horizons
Building a strategy is similar to solving a very complicated problem. The computer science approach to this is break the big problem into smaller ones, but that is not a simple task on it’s own. There are many ways to “break-apart” the strategy question (e.g., marketing strategy, sales strategy, dev strategy, etc.) While those are […]
For developers: How to build a business model and prove your idea is awesome in 10 minutes
So you have an awesome idea and you know it’s going to make a lot of money, but for some reason not everybody believes you. Well, first of all, that good since you don’t need everyone on your side. You do however want to make a good impression on potential investors, team members, advisers, etc. […]
Build a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) by focusing on User Stories NOT features
When building a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) the goal is to build something as quickly as possible, release it to the world and get feedback. Then improve and continue building. In this post I will explain how to build a MVP based on “User Stories” rather than “Features” and why it’s faster and better. What […]
How to add value to your customers not your product: The value creation and capture model
The goal of this post is to help breakdown value creation and value capture. At first glance we can see that there is more than one way we can add value and that not all value added will actually go to the user. . There are 3 fundamental ways to add value to your customers: […]
Product management in 5 simple steps
My goal in this post is to break down the main activities great Product Managers do and briefly discuss each. This is meant to help organize and break apart the complex world of product management and allow further research into each area (this article does not cover aspect of Product Strategy and Portfolio Management, just managing and […]
A simple model for feature prioritization
In this post I hope to quickly break apart the feature prioritization process. My goal is to help make prioritization more of a science and less of an art. Nothing below is ground breaking, but breaking it apart may help understand and manage the process better. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and comments. Prioritization Model: (more…)
Understanding what you need to prove to become an investable startup
Not all startups were born alike. Different startups need to prove different things. In this post I will present one way to break apart the different models startups can be built upon and accordingly some of the main things you will need to prove. The Scale – Value spectrum: Scale Company: Twitter, Airbnb If […]