Apr 9, 2019Why I Started AdattivoAt the beginning of 2019, my startup, CUE, was experiencing the same customer adoption challenges that most startups face. We had been at it three years and still had not gotten enough traction to open up venture conversations. I started thinking about what could be the next chapter in my…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Oct 4, 2018Steps We Used to Move our Medium Blog to an AWS WordPress InstanceAt CUE Marketplace, as we grew, we relied more on SEO. We have worked hard on our blog and we wanted to get all the search engine credit we could with that content. We decided to move our blog from Medium with a custom domain to a hosted WordPress site…AWS5 min readAWS5 min read
May 15, 20185 Keys to Hiring Coding Boot Camp GradsHiring technical talent has always been one of my most difficult tasks as a startup CTO. Development talent is in short supply for all company sizes, and we’ll see an estimated 30% increase in the number of development positions by 2026. …Hiring5 min readHiring5 min read
Aug 22, 20174 Things I Include in My Agile EstimationsEstimation is one of the most difficult aspects of the Agile process. The natural tendency of team members is to include only the time it will take to complete the actual work for the item they are estimating. …Agile2 min readAgile2 min read
Feb 24, 20175 Suggestions for Building Your Professional Network After a MoveMy family recently moved to Boulder, Colorado from Atlanta. I’d lived in Atlanta for 21 years and built a solid professional network in my time there. I was starting fresh in Boulder so I needed some juice to jumpstart my professional search. …Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
Mar 30, 2016Build what your customers can’t live withoutOver 90% of startups fail. Even good ideas surrounded by good teams fail. Customer discovery is critical to improving your chances for long term success. Here are a few suggestions to help your startup with customer discovery. Most of these have their roots in Steve Blank’s Customer Development Methodology. I…Entrepreneurship2 min readEntrepreneurship2 min read
Feb 12, 2016Comparing Rails Application Deployments on Heroku, Elastic Beanstalk and IBM Bluemix (Cloud Foundry)I recently wanted to prototype application deployment on a few PaaS platforms to see what would be best for a future startup. Ruby on Rails is my go-to language right now, so I wanted to test a Rails application on those platforms. I reviewed Rails Tutorial codebase and it was…Heroku7 min readHeroku7 min read
Dec 31, 201510 Things I Learned in 20152015 was a huge year for my family. I learned a lot of life and work things this year. Here are the top 10 life and work things I learned: Life Stuff I’m not the most important person in my world, new daughter and wife are now. I didn’t understand…Lessons Learned2 min readLessons Learned2 min read
Dec 17, 20153 Things that I’ve Learned about AgileThe Agile Manifesto is 15 years old. By some estimates, 90% of software development organizations are practicing Agile in some form. So, if you are reading this, you probably have some experience with Agile. I’ve been using Agile for the last 8 years in various forms and companies. I’ve been…Agile3 min readAgile3 min read
Nov 6, 20153 Things That Can Help Your Innovation Lab SucceedDo you want to help your company come up with fresh features, products or even enhance internal processes without slowing customer delivery? Starting an innovation lab can be a step in the right direction for your company. As with many things, I’ve had some successes and some failures while being…Innovation3 min readInnovation3 min read
