These are amazing times in terms of going from idea to finished product. But even though you can get cheap hosting, software or services, you need to avoid the pitfall of hiring low cost developers without really knowing how good they are. I still remember the time in the early…

In a study by Harvard Business School senior lecturer Shikhar Ghosh, 75 percent of venture-backed companies never return cash to investors, with 30 to 40 percent of those liquidating assets where investors lose all of their money. I’ve seen it first hand in my consulting practice and it’s specially heart…

There’s always a burning question in every manager’s mind: When will it ship? In the days of the waterfall methodology, my manager would ask me for an estimated delivery timeline for a project and I would quickly open up my Microsoft Project software and start drawing bars with estimations and…

With Flask 1.0 there was a big change on how we interact with the application management, with the integration of the Click library in Flask, which replaces in many aspects the Flask-Script library. …

Back when I joined my first startup, I didn’t know exactly what to expect. The interview was in the lobby of a hotel. The actual “office” had three cramped desks and a dirty carpet. But all I saw was a huge opportunity to build something from scratch. …

There’s been a long standing debate in the past few months on the feasability of developing mobile applications using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Facebook’s founder went as far as partly blaming their initial hybrid approach as the reason they had failed in their mobile strategy. “I think the biggest mistake…