In my role at AgilityFeat, I have the pleasure to work with entrepreneurs everyday. I love to spend time talking about project ideas and learning about what makes each entrepreneur passionate about their particular idea. Most importantly...
Startups
3 IoT Takeaways from SXSW for Entrepreneurs
Last week, thousands of techies descended on Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive. As one might expect, the Internet of Things or IoT was a hotter topic than where to get the best barbeque (here's my recommendation by the way). The interest...
Pickasound- Using WebRTC to Build a Music Collaboration Application
In early 2014, we were approached by an entrepreneur who wanted to build a new type of music collaboration application. The application would allow musicians to exchange ideas and build songs together via the web without any type of...
Do you really have the time for a startup?
It’s not enough to have a good business idea, you must have the time to execute on that idea. Which makes this story from Wired magazine even more impressive. Dutch programmer and designer Pieter Levels is on a quest to build a new...
Why I’ve moved to Costa Rica
About three years ago, David Alfaro and I launched on a great adventure together, building AgilityFeat into an international boutique software development firm. I was living in Virginia in the US, and David built up our operations in...
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...
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...
4 Steps to Take Before Talking to a Development Partner
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...
Four Books for Every Entreprenuer’s Holiday List
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...
Four things Entrepreneurs should do before ending their week
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...
Luxr launches video workshop series for entrepreneurs
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...
Are you waiting for permission?
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...
Company Culture Hacks
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...
3 ways to make or break your startup pitch
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...
Agile Thinking Outside of Development Organizations
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...
B2B marketing with top 25 lists
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...
Don’t be average – be an entrepreneur
What do you really want out of life? What is the driving force behind your startup? What really motivates you? Being an entrepreneur is not an easy life, but it can be very emotionally rewarding. Hopefully financially rewarding too. It's...
How to make your web business idea a reality (for non-technical Entrepreneurs)
At AgilityFeat, we spend lots of time speaking with entrepreneurs about their ideas. As our tagline says, “it’s in our DNA”. We’re a company that is often approached by entrepreneurs, filled with passion but stuck on the steps to take to...
Announcing Product Consultations
One of the most fun things that I get to do is to speak with entrepreneurs about their business ideas. Most of the time, they are contacting me to find out how much it will cost to build their idea (or re-build their product). As one...
Why Entreprenuers Should Learn to Code
It may seem odd initially that someone who sells software development to businesses would encourage other entrepreneurs to learn one of the skills that AgilityFeat offers. Why would I want more people to learn to do what we can do for...
Kenny Rogers and Customer Development
You got to know when to hold em.. We’re believers in Lean Startup here at AgilityFeat. In addition to our boutique UX/ Design and Software Development Services, we’re working on a few business ideas to scratch our collective...
So you want to create a Google Glass application
If you are like me, you have a sixth sense that tells you that when a new market is about to appear, or a new way to interact with your customers is about to appear, you should be the first one to provide a solution in that new arena. You...
Lean Start-up, now what?
Back in November we sat down with Tony Cappeart, COO and Co-Founder at Contactually to talk about how they are applying Lean Startup methodologies to build their business. We talked about how Lean Startup had guided their product design,...