Category Archives: General

This is the third post in my series on Building Distributed Teams. So far, we've covered why you need to be building a distributed team and what makes an ideal...

This is the second post in my series on building a distributed team. Part one is here. Nothing kills a distributed team faster than hiring the wrong kind of team...

Pardon the brief interruption in my series on building distributed teams. I've been battling the flu this week and am just now emerging from the fog. Distributed Teams will resume in...

This is part one in a series of posts on building distributed teams. For purposes of this series, I will be talking specifically about building distributed technology product teams. If...

I use the words "remote" and "distributed" interchangeably in this article. Both terms mean working for you full time (or maybe part time) but not in your office with you....

"I would rather fail at greatness than succeed at mediocrity" - Tim Sinclair My guest for this episode is Tim Sinclair,  CEO and founder of RINGR. RINGR is an audio recording...

One of the hardest things that any software product company has to do is balance the needs of today with the potential needs of tomorrow. Answers to how the business...

It seems most every decision in building technology products (or probably any business) revolves around one of these two constraints, often times both. However, you invariably have less of one...

Each month I 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 themes or...

I was in Austin, TX last week doing some work with one of my favorite companies, Telestax (I am an advisor). Telestax is an open-source project in the telecom space,...

Refactoring is a core concept in software development. A guy named Martin Fowler literally wrote the book on the topic, and he defines refactoring as "A controlled technique for improving...

There's a time to hire junior developers, and it's not when you're trying to get your product off the ground. The early development team has to be 100% autonomous and...

I've been reading some incredible books lately, and I thought that you might want to do the same over this next week of (at least some) downtime. Whiplash: How to...

My guest for this episode is Stephen Kane, CEO and founder of ArbiClaims. ArbiClaims is a platform that brings parties together to resolve small disputes using trained arbitrators without having to go...

My guest for this show is Jake Loosararian, CEO and co-founder of Gecko Robotics. Gecko Robotics make robots that do unassisted inspections of power plant boilers. These robots have sensors...

My guest for this show is Brant Elliot. Brant is the CTO and Co-Founder of Stealz, a mobile app that rewards customers for being brand ambassadors for businesses they frequent....

If you've been following this blog or listening to my podcast, you know that I typically post every Tuesday and Friday to the blog and then a podcast every Saturday...

My guest for this show is Mark Easley. Mark is a startup advisor and angel investor in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. Previously Mark had a 20+...