If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. I may be falling victim to this old adage admittedly, but everywhere I look recently I see possible applications of WebRTC technology. For those not aware, WebRTC is part of...
At AgilityFeat, we work in a distributed manner. Primarily due to the insight that interruptions kill productivity and partially due to the painful traffic situation that exists in San José Costa Rica (where most of our team lives), our...
Responsive design has been around since 2012. Last year, it was a hot topic and most entrepreneurs and technology leaders have heard about responsive design. However, there are still many new businesses that are building new products and...
2014 is only 9 days old and before we get too far into the new year, we wanted to take a look back at our top posts from 2013. We covered a great deal of ground last year on our blog, including our experiences developing products via...
Sprint length is a topic of debate for companies employing Scrum. In my opinion, there is no one "right" length for sprints because of the myriad of factors that influence how effective a specific sprint length can be for a company....
Entrepreneurs are everywhere. The development of the internet has made creating and selling a product or service more accessible to more people than ever before. New technologies are dropping development costs while marketing and...
Real Time messaging is an increasingly important part of web and mobile applications, and David Alfaro and I witnessed the growing interest in this topic during our talk at MoDevEast recently. We have a very engaged group at our...
Tis the season to deck the halls, drink egg nog and spend some time under the mistletoe. And while Santa is busy making his lists and checking them twice, I thought I'd share some of my favorite books for entrepreneurs that might be good...
To quote Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." The same can be said for running a business. Hours bleed into days, days into weeks, weeks into..well, you get the...
I'm very excited next week to return to the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco. Last year I was an Ignite speaker at the conference, and as I have said to many others since then, it was the best conference I've been to as both an...
Luxr.co has produced a new “direct line to awesome” for entrepreneurs to learn, be inspired, and grow their startups. Back in May I blogged about their upcoming services, and now it’s live! I had a chance recently to try these new...
Last week I was working with an entrepreneur friend, who is building his product with a distributed team. His group includes people on both coasts of the United States as well as a two person team in western Europe. Throughout the course...
The future of web and mobile development is happening in real time. As real time data and communications become easier to integrate into applications, you will need to change the architecture and even business models of your applications...
Am I really qualified to do this? Moments of doubt like that hit all of us occasionally as entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur must have two basic elements in order to go from “somebody with an idea” to an actual entrepreneur. First, you must...
Most people are aware of the benefits of integrating Facebook into their web site. Integrating Facebook Connect makes it easier for users to login and stay connected to your site. Further, the information that Facebook will provide back...
Customer development interviews, focus groups, beta testing … they are all great ways to learn what your customers want before you actually build it. They are often based on small groups of people simply because it’s hard to interview...
At last week's unConference in Boston, presented by the Mass Technology Leadership Council, I attended a great discussion about Mindfulness and Authentic Leadership at Work. The topic gathered a large and disparate group of participants...
We're excited to announce that our resident rockstar, Arin will be make a repeat appearance at the Lean Startup Conference. He's been asked to return to the conference, this time as mentor following his electrifying "Just Deploy It!"...
Last night I had the pleasure of attending Boston's Lean Startup Circle, titled "Sprinting Towards Innovation". Lead by C. Todd Lombardo the Principal Innovation Catalyst at Constant Contact, the evening was a very hands-on event that...
I've spent some time this week at the Tech.co Celebrate event in Las Vegas, NV. Celebrate is an annual startup competition, where hundreds of startups around the US competed at regional pitch competitions to win a chance to attend the...
Bringing Real Time Communications to the browser WebRTC was one of the hot topics at the HTML5 Developers Conference that I attended this week, and for good reason. WebRTC is a promising new standard that makes it easier for you to...
Agile methodologies in software development have been around for a long time. The Agile Manifesto was written almost 13 years ago in fact. Initially a hit with developers who were struggling to find a better way to build software, Agile...
How can you reach the C-suite of your ideal customer? Public flattery may just be a good tactic to consider in B2B marketing. At the Mid Atlantic Marketing Summit in Baltimore, I met Trevor Lynn, Marketing Manager at Social Tables. He...
If agile development were easy, everyone would be doing it. Or at least doing it better. On October 18th AgilityFeat CEO/Founder Arin Sime (that's me) is presenting at InnovateVirginia on "5 reasons you'll love to hate agile development."...
If you are an entrepreneur, you are likely one of the lucky people on this planet who jumps out of bed, passionately inspired to greet the day. After all, you've got to love what you do to generate the energy to run a business! However,...