Posts by Scott Barstow

"Where there is no vision, the people perish" - The Book of Proverbs "I feel like we're moving too slowly." "I don't know if my development team is performing as well...

I love it when I get emails from people who are reading this newsletter, particularly when they're correcting something I did wrong. A few weeks back Mike Murphy of Proctor...

If you're in the process of building nearly any kind of product, you're going to have to buy an SSL certificate for your website or your API. Even if you're...

Chris Heivly was the co-founder of MapQuest, the company that brought mapping into the modern era in the 1990s. He's the co-founder of a startup incubator in Raleigh-Durham, NC called...

This question came up in my private Slack channel the other day. We had a great conversation amongst the companies involved, and I'm sharing the highlights here. For the purposes...

I had the privilege a while back of sitting through a presentation from Rusty Rueff, who is one of the best-known experts on human resources in Silicon Valley. He talked...

Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher! Aidan Cunniffe is the CEO of Dropsource. Imagine if you could design and configure your application, generate all of the required code for iOS and...

Why Sprints? There was a time when sprints mattered, or more precisely, where you had to break work up into logical groupings. The reason was that a team needed visibility...

Each month I’m going to provide a list of resources (podcasts, talks, blog posts, books, music etc.) that I consider to be must-haves. There’s no doubt that you’ll see recurring...

My guest for this episode is Ben Wiant, Business Development Manager for Kelaca. Ben's day job is recruiting for his clients, but to call Ben a recruiter doesn't really do...

When you're first starting out building your product, your developers are going to have a choice to make about how to build the application. There are (generally) two ways that...

How many assumptions are baked into the idea you're working on? In other words, how many things have to go right for you to be right? In my experience, almost...

Jessica Mitsch is the Executive Director of Code Schools for The Iron Yard, one of the most successful programming boot camps in the world. She's been with The Iron Yard...

Time kills all deals - David Morken, CEO of Bandwidth The quote above I first heard from David a long time ago when I was at Bandwidth trying to hang...

There's a big difference between hiring a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) and finding a technical co-founder for your company. Since almost every technology business has this problem, it's worth exploring...

It's not often that I see someone at the top of their game, but it happened this week. I was working on due diligence for the venture firm I work...

This is a follow up to a guest post by my good friend Jesse Jones on Three Legal Mistakes that Can Sink Your Company. I got a number of responses...

My guest for this show is Gret Glyer, founder of Donorsee. DonorSee is a new app that connects donors and fundraisers using the power of story and feedback to make...