Category Archives: General

There are two ways that information and requests get processed in your product: Synchronous and asynchronous. Let's explore what each of these terms means in real life, and the pluses...

Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher! Tatiana Birgisson is the founder and CEO of MATI Energy, an all-natural energy drink that goes toe to toe with the likes of Red Bull....

One of my favorite concepts in programming is called code smells. The principle of code smell is that if something looks odd or bad on the surface, there's a high...

Inevitably if you're under the gun to hit a deadline with your product, the temptation will be to allow things to slip. Your development team might say things like "We're...

It's a well-understood norm that in order to displace your competition, particularly as a startup, your product has to be a 10x product in one of these areas: 10x better...

What are the three things (or less) you have to get right today for your company to win? Write them down on a scratch piece of paper just to prove...

Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher! Brian Dally is the CEO of Groundfloor, a crowdfunding real estate finance company based in Atlanta, GA. I first met Brian back when he was...

Disclaimer: I am not an attorney. You should consult an actual attorney like Jesse Jones for the actual agreements and process. Frequently overlooked in the process of hiring a new...

One of the key components of your brand identity is the domain name you use. However, as you've no doubt discovered, it's hard to find good domain names these days....

Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher! Brent Boekestein is the CEO of a brand new startup in the Bay area called Vintra.io. I wanted to have Brent on because I worked...

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...

This post is going to be short and sweet, and cover something really practical: How to change passwords on key systems. You're going to have to do this if senior...

Subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher! Derick Thompson is the CEO and founder of Startup Runner, a virtual accelerator based in Austin, TX that helps identify repeatable, scalable customer channels that...

It's so common that it's a joke in some companies. Your development team does not reliably hit deadlines. What are the most common causes, and what can you do about...

"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...