Building a great remote team has enormous benefits. By expanding one’s talent pool beyond your local area you can dramatically increase your chances for finding people who possess the unique set of skills and talents for your team. As a...
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Tips for CIOs Working with Startups
This week, CIO.com published an article by Jonathan Hassell called "What CIOs Need to Know Before Relying on Startups". The article lays out the list of pros of working with startups: disruptive technology and extreme flexibility to work...
Thoughts on Finding a Technical Co-Founder
What do you do when have an idea for a web-based business but don’t know how to get started? Do you need to learn to go unicorn hunting, I mean, go find a technical co-founder? Finding a technical co-founder has become part of the...
Inside the creation of the Tougher.Me MVP
For the past two months I've had the pleasure of working with incredible Steph Hay on the development of her application, Tougher.Me. Tougher.Me is Steph's first web product and we asked her to share some of her experiences talking to...
On Team Building, The Commando Way
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...
Top Posts from 2013
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...
Tips for Successful Distributed Teams
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...
4 Outsourcing Tips I Learned from the Lean Start-up Machine
Last weekend I attended Lean Startup Machine in Boston. It was a learning-packed 72 hours and I think all entrepreneurs should attend one. In addition to the hands-on exercises applying Lean Startup Methodologies, it was a great way to...