THE AGILITYFEAT BLOG
At AgilityFeat, we are more than just designers and coders. We are also thought leaders. Our team has spoken at conferences around the US, Europe, and Latin America. We were early leaders in applying agile methodologies to nearshore software development in Latin America. We shared these lessons in this blog through 2015. These days, we blog mainly about our other passion, WebRTC. Find us at https://webrtc.ventures/blog/.
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...
Real Time and WebRTC demo at MoDevEast
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...
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...
3 Things I hope you ask me at the Lean Startup Conference
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 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...
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...
Real time app preview at MoDevEast
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...
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...
Getting Started Integrating Facebook into your Website
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...
How GuideStar created an 850 person Lean Startup advisory panel
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...
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...
AgilityFeat at Lean Startup Conference
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!"...
Agile Innovation: The Art of Ideas
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...
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...
10 Resources for the new WebRTC standard
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 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...
5 reasons you’ll love to hate agile development
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."...
Six Things Entrepreneurs Should Do Before Opening Their E-mail in the Morning
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,...
AgilityFeat speaks on Real Time Messaging at Mo-Dev East
I'm excited to announce that AgilityFeat's own David Alfaro and Arin Sime will be speaking at MoDevEast in December in McLean, Virginia. MoDevEast is the premier East Coast mobile event spanning consumer and enterprise markets across all...
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...
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...
Software as Art
"So how do you ever tell your customers how much something costs?" My cousin asked me that question as I tried to explain to him what we do at AgilityFeat. My cousin is the CFO of a major division of a large multinational European...
Learn UX to lead better
Last week I read an excellent article by Robert Fabricant on “The Rise of UX Leadership”. The article heralds the rise of UX in business and suggests that UX-Centric organization has supplanted the Marketing/Sales driven organization in...