Every month I publish a list of blogs, podcasts, books, products or anything else I consider to be a must-have or must-do. Hope you enjoy this month’s list. Reading Fearless – The Adam Brown Story by Eric Blehm – Easily the best non-fiction of the last month. Adam Brown was a Navy SEAL whose persistence in […]
The Scott Barstow Show, Episode #033 – Monica Wood and DeDe Houston of Myxx Recipes
My guests for this show are Monica Wood and DeDe Houston, co-founders of Myxx Recipes. One of the biggest struggles for busy families is finding and making healthy meals at home. Myxx Recipes lets users shop for new, healthy recipes, create a shopping list from those recipes (including prices from the store where you shop), […]
Github Hysteria! We’re All Going to Die!
Microsoft recently announced the purchase of Github. Within minutes of the announcement, there was (and continues to be) mass hysteria. For readers of this blog, you’ll know that I’m a heavy user of (and promoter of) Github. They have built a remarkable service that over-delivers on value. I don’t expect the transaction with Microsoft to […]
May 2018 Must-Haves
Every month I publish a list of blogs, podcasts, books, products or anything else I consider to be a must-have or must-do. Hope you enjoy this month’s list. It’s a short one. Reading The Girl with Seven Names – Wow. A riveting story of a young woman’s escape from North Korea to China and then […]
Scaleable Developer Onboarding
How long does it take for a new developer on your team to be productive? If you’ve not thought about this question, or you don’t know the answer, you’re likely wasting time and money. The best engineering organizations focus maniacally on making things easy for new team members because it has a massive impact on […]
Who Are You Recruiting For?
Every now and then a high school superstar athlete chooses a college that no one’s ever heard of rather than one of the “premier” programs in their sport. There are likely a few reasons why this happens, but most likely the coach of the smaller program made an impression that was unique and different from […]
February 2018 Must-Haves
Every month I publish a list of blogs, podcasts, books, products or anything else I consider to be a must-have or must-do. Hope you enjoy this month’s list. Read / Reading Heavy fiction focus this month. Quite rare for me, but I’ve been spending a lot of my non-fiction time listening to some new podcasts. […]
Recruiting Tech Talent? Let Us Help
One of the hardest things a founder without a technical background has to do is find and hire technical talent, either contract or permanent. If you find yourself in this situation right now, and in particular you’re looking for senior engineering or a CTO, we’d like to help as part of a new initiative. We’ve […]
Nine Women and a Baby
One of my favorite sayings of all time goes something like: “Nine women can’t make a baby in one month.” This is almost always true in building software. Sometimes adding people to a project is what you need to do, but a lot of times adding more people slows everything down. If you’re under the […]
The Scott Barstow Show, Episode #032– Kristine Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Equine Exchange
My guest for this show is Kristine Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Equine Exchange, a marketplace for buying and selling sport horses. If you’re like me, you know nothing about buying or selling a horse, but it’s actually a massive market with extremely high dollar transactions and fraught with fraud and bad actors. Equine Exchange […]