March 2012
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Doing is better than thinking
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Some entrepreneurs wait and wait for their “best idea” before starting. They have many ideas that they never execute because they have a fear that they will be beaten by competitors. They have a fear of failure and this is the main reason some people never even start on the ‘entrepreneur’ path. They fail to break startup...
January 2012
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Never let your product become a half-assed product
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You have a product, and there are dozens of features you want to add. It always sounds like you need everything in order to win your customers over.
In reality? Features are never felt enough by you and your customers.
No matter how big your team is, your resources and focus are always in constraint. If you only have few features, you can focus and make it...
November 2011
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Thirteen FAQs to simplify and speed up your...
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Greg and I were talking on the other day about how we usually review an idea. It could be a feature implementation, a bug fix, or an UI improvement. When the idea is generated by ourselves, our team, or customers, we tend to ask some questions to validate the idea, other question are here to simplify the solution and clarify some technical details:
What...
October 2011
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Empathy is a powerful tool for startup
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I started my career as a programmer but I am lucky enough to learn and work on UI/UX in my startup. I asked some of my designer friends: What is the most important aspect of designing a product? They told me it’s empathy. Without understanding users pain and needs, you can never design a usable interface.
Empathy is not only a powerful capacity for...
September 2011
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7 ideas on how to hire a great programmer
The tech job market is crowded. So crowded that it can be difficult to find and hire great people that care about the work that they do especially when you are a small startup. This is especially true for programmers where their resume may not exactly match up with their actual talent.
A lot of hackers can say on their resume that they have programmed with ‘X’ framework for 5 years...