Hint: Let Early Adopters Steer Your Product — Our startup began with a vision. A vision of what we wanted to create, something we wanted to use, and what we wanted people to use it for. Our idea was unique, and by George people were going to love us for it. Spoiler alert: that didn’t happen. As we…

1, 2, 3, 4… if only it was as easy as counting to 5 As a co-founder, building a badass startup team will not only be one of your first challenges, but also the most important one to get right. …

What we learned while drastically increasing the engagement on our utility app by adding a unique social experience. — If you’re trying to make a big splash in the app world, utility itself is simply not enough anymore. A bit of background on our app Spectafy connects people to location-specific answers, visually. It’s meant to get people moving, and get them information about locations in real-time without having to leave where they are – so that…

How we are using lessons learned from our beta to shape our app before launch. — Real-time photos are going to be a huge part of how we gain information in the next year, and increasingly so in following years. We are so connected technologically through our mobile phones and mobile devices that pictures are just an obvious commodity that we can use for more than…

Are you always trying to be more productive? Are you always looking to get that extra hour out of your day, or make one footstep travel a mile? We are too. We are constantly trying to optimize our time, our productivity, our output. …

(And Some Free Resources To Help You Build Yours) — When every single second counts, the tools that give you those seconds back are absolutely priceless. There are tons of tools that we use to get those seconds back, and we put them directly in to building our product. We use a lot of startups to power our startup, they…

The app that I believe is dying to exist. — There are photo apps out there for everything. They’re one of the most ubiquitous app types in the market, apart from Flappy Bird remakes. Why? Why are photo sharing apps so common? What are the real unique problems they’re solving? Well for one, it’s interconnectivity, but we currently just use…

Save money, be healthier, be more productive, enjoy life more. — We all want to be more efficient, more productive, to get more out of our day, and free up our time to do the things that are valuable to us. The best way to do this is to break down the systems we already have in place, and to make…

It’s about freeing up your time to do something great. — The point is not to be so effective that you free up time to simply do nothing. It’s about freeing up your time to do something great. The goal of increased productivity is to be able to accomplish more in life that is worth accomplishing in less time. This frees…