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Jul 24, 2017

The One Thing You Should Know about Starting a Business (or doing a startup)

I’ll get right to the point: It’s not glamorous and it’s not fucking easy. You may have heard this before, but let me say it again just to really drive the point home. Building a company is not glamorous and it’s not fucking easy. I’m not successful, not yet anyway…

Startup

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Startup

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Apr 4, 2017

Our Path to MVP: Tachyons

Our Path to MVP: Tachyons Being a technical founder ain’t always easy. You have to balance your technical side that wants to play with the latest and greatest technologies, as well as the practical side that wants to build things quickly and efficiently. …

Web Development

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Web Development

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Feb 16, 2017

How Apple Missed An Opportunity With Siri

A few months ago Sal Soghoian announced that his position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple was being eliminated due to business reasons. Sal integrated and grew AppleScript support within existing Apple applications, and advocated for AppleScript use within third-party applications as a way to empower users. …

Apple

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Apple

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Feb 7, 2017

Going the Extra Mile When Onboarding New users

I’ve been working on a new product. This one is a bit different in that our users aren’t developers, nor are they pro/power users. In fact, a large majority of our target market work in the trades–plumbers, electricians, carpenters, handymen, cleaners, etc. WorkWeek is geared towards small, blue-collar, service-based businesses…

UX

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Going the Extra Mile When Onboarding New users
Going the Extra Mile When Onboarding New users
UX

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Dec 16, 2016

Our Path to MVP: Choosing Rails

Ruby was the first language that made me feel like I could be a programmer. I’d always sorta tried to learn programming — I got books from the mall bookstore “Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours”, “Learn Java in 7 Days”, etc. I don’t think I learned anything from them. …

Programming

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Our Path to MVP: Choosing Rails
Our Path to MVP: Choosing Rails
Programming

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Dec 3, 2016

Sometimes Opportunity Finds You

I recently lost my job for a large tech company — it was sudden and unexpected. It was unexpected because the company had just moved our team to a new office, and they invested a lot of time and money into not only the office, but our remote team. I’d…

Startup

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Startup

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Travis Dunn

Travis Dunn

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Product thinker, maker of many things, and founder of WorkWeek http://workweek.com

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