Originally published on Entrepreneur Magazine. Traditional top-down management can create a single point of failure within each department: a middle manager held accountable for his team’s projects and products. According to a Harvard Business Review analysis released in September, U.S. companies are wasting more than $3 trillion every year on excess bureaucracy and management — which is equivalent to […]
Not so long ago, taking a trip to New York City meant riding around in yellow taxis and staying at the Plaza Hotel. Now, for many, it means staying at an Airbnb and hiring Uber drivers to chauffeur you around. This transformation illustrates the incredible rise of the gig economy — something that’s revolutionizing the way we, […]
Originally published on CEO.com. Not long ago, employees succeeded in the workplace by producing consistent, high-quality work as specifically directed by their managers. Once promoted into middle management, however, their measure of success became the productivity of their team, and their priorities shifted from completing the work to setting expectations and processes for others to […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
Originally published on MIT News by Rob Matheson December 11, 2014 Tracking what students grasp Socrative mobile quiz app saves teachers time and offers real-time data on student comprehension of material. As a teaching assistant at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2010, Amit Maimon MBA ’11 witnessed the origins of a technological phenomenon: Smartphones and […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]