Posts by Scott Barstow

"I'm got an idea for a new product. Do you know what investors I should talk to?" I always enjoy hearing about new ideas that people are working on, and...

Imagine if you walked into the Tesla factory and saw all of the welding being done by humans. You'd probably wonder what in the world was going on, and you'd...

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...

"There is no such thing as a startup that isn't a technology startup" - Mike Schneider, CEO of First.io Whether your company sells shoes, on-demand custom fabric, vinyl subscriptions, or...

In the first article in this mini-series on APIs for the untechnical, we introduced the building blocks of how APIs work. In our second article, we talked about how you read...

In the first article in this mini-series on APIs for the untechnical, we introduced the building blocks of how APIs work. In this article, we're going to talk about how...

My guest for this show is Matt Fiedler, CEO and co-founder of Vinyl Me, Please. Vinyl Me, Please is a record of the month club unlike any other. Not only...

Wouldn't it be cool if, instead of having to build everything your app needs, you could use all of the tools that your other fellow app builders have built? What...

What does it cost you to test your product before every release? It's common, especially in the early going of a company, to do all release testing manually. It usually...

My guest for this show is Allan Branch, co-founder of Less Everything, which is the parent company of Less Accounting and Less Films.  Less Accounting is the accounting software for...

"This is a story about control My control Control of what I say Control of what I do And this time I'm gonna do it my way I hope you...

Which customer am I doing this work for? How will this work help my business? So often we do work without having definitive answers to these questions, and many times...

[embed]https://www.flickr.com/photos/11346289@N08/19185613389/in/album-72157654721134409/[/embed]   Our guest for this show is Mike Schneider, the CEO of First.io. First helps real estate agents identify who amongst their list of contacts is most likely to...

I recently finished reading Scott Adam's latest book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. The book is jammed full of practical advice and tremendous stories from...

It's a tempting headline, isn't it? The answer to creating a great development organization lies just behind the click of a mouse. Spoiler alert: There is no secret formula, and...

I’m really excited about our guest for this show, I think you’re going to love it. Janice Smith is the founder and CEO of Mission 100%, a practice-based teacher development...

I was reading this  article by John Saddington yesterday on being a "Full Stack Founder", and it prompted me to think through all of the skills required as a founder...

Gret Glyer is a world-changer. Gret's story starts with an African safari in high school and leads us to today, where he's living in Malawi building $800 homes, a school...