US customers sent 2.2 trillion text messages in 2020. In other words, the wireless operators have created a big party—one which application developers, marketers, and software companies…
A startup is a lonely endeavor that never works alone. It works with a dominant player, whether in an app store like a marketplace or…
A Startup accrues technical debt at a breathtaking pace. It is inevitable, expected, and painful to watch for even the most pragmatic engineers. If you're…
The moment working source code is live, it is legacy. The code is "in production" and has forever documented the decisions that created it. These…
For any software business, the online signup is the lifeblood of customer acquisition. The new tooling available to developers makes it easy to build and…
I stumbled on the questions I wrote about last week circa 2013-14. Fresh from our first round of funding (Series A to fund EZ Texting's acquisition), I…
The best managers are superb capital allocators. They take expensive investor money and assign it to the proper growth initiatives. Accountability for a team or…
Building a shared sense of purpose is easy when the company is young. There is plenty of work to do and not enough people to…
At 75 books read a year, Stephen King considers himself a slow reader. By his scale, my reading speed would be closer to a sloth.…
Once it has won over the geeks and early adopters, new technology needs to win the heart of the everyday user. You do that by…
Smart founders are comfortable with perpetual ignorance and combat it with tireless learning. The preceding Twitter-friendly headline would aptly summarize this article, but outside of…
All Founders are arrogant. How's that for a polarizing statement? If you're a founder and disagree, it means you haven't been rejected, denied, denigrated, ghosted,…