Entrepreneurship

Are You Doing Your Best Work?

I’ve had the pleasure of being a manager for most of career, and one of the questions I ask on a fairly…

Don’t Interview Users in Groups

I’m writing this on Black Friday, having just finished up the Thanksgiving holiday with a topic fresh on…

Customers Don’t Need Features

When packaged software could be found on the shelves in big box retailers, I used to spend a fair bit of…

10 Steps to Guarantee a Terrible Hiring Process

When/Where/How do users use what they use?

A few months ago, I purchased a Nintendo Switch. At the time, this was a silly…

Speak the Same Language as Your Audience

Back when I was in college, I remember one of my physics professors telling me that you can tell how intelligent a person is on a topic by how easy they can explain their expertise. This particular professor is (or at least used to be) a researcher in…

What I Learned from Startupalooza — Andrew’s Take

Twenty-six dollars and sixty-two cents. A small fee, but it purchased 2 minutes of stage time and a handful of questions from a group of local (Washington DC area) investors. When Alex and I set out to start Better Product Company (formerly…