In my experience, most professional software engineers in industry have little to no experience doing competitive analysis. That’s a shame, because competitive analysis is one of the most useful skills that an engineer can have.
How do I increase TinyPilot’s profit margins?
Welcome to the golden age of the product studio
The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan Biyani has landed on an approach that’s quite different.
As a Founder, you are the Chief Storyteller. Here are the storytelling methods we have observed in pitches that motivate VCs to invest.
Because we’ve run the numbers, and shit’s not great.
It’s far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary.
This article attempts to reflect back on the most meaningful lessons learned by building electricityMap, Bloom and North at Tomorrow.
Conventional wisdom is: Don’t raise money from a ton of angel investors because it’ll clutter the cap table and be a pain in the butt. I strongly disagree.
We created a free Slack message scheduler called Message Them Later and didn't market it. Yet, somehow, we have 200k users and counting. What does that tell us?
The most popular products don’t become mass popular overnight. It’s a process. Usually they popularity is uneven, they are unknown in some niches, but very popular in another niches.
One thing is for sure: tech companies are willing to fill the “live audio seats” as soon as possible.
When I was in college I took two intro economics courses: macroeconomics and microeconomics. Macro was full of theories like “low unemployment causes inflation” that never quite stood u…
The idea of advertising is to lie without getting caught. Most companies, when they run an advertising campaign, simply take the most unfortunate truth about their company, turn it upside down (…
