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Validating Your Product Idea With A Landing Page
Validating Your Product Idea With A Landing Page
What comes to your mind when you think about a tech startup? Probably something from the Facebook movie or Silicon Valley TV series. Nerdy…
Alex Ponomarev
May 3, 2020
How To Balance Quick Wins with a Long-Term Strategy
How To Balance Quick Wins with a Long-Term Strategy
We have two distinct areas in our brain. One is responsible for emotions, and the other for rational reasoning. Whenever you have to make…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 11, 2019
Build An Educational Product as Your MVP
Build An Educational Product as Your MVP
Multiple kinds of MVPs exist, and each serves its own purpose.
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 3, 2019
Avoid The Overwhelm Of Validating The Product By Using Design Sprints
Avoid The Overwhelm Of Validating The Product By Using Design Sprints
A design sprint is a framework perfect for helping startups answer business questions. It’s a process that spans five days. In that time…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 10, 2019
Why I Ditched The “Not My Job” Attitude And Why You Should Too
Why I Ditched The “Not My Job” Attitude And Why You Should Too
I’m the kind of guy who leaves product reviews, good or bad, whenever I can. Why? Because I think the only way to fix the world is to step…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 26, 2019
How to Develop a Landing Page in a Cost-Effective Way
How to Develop a Landing Page in a Cost-Effective Way
Many years back, I was working as a system administrator for a small company, where no one on the team but me could add or change a thing…
Alex Ponomarev
Nov 23, 2019
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To Find Problems To Solve Just Listen To What People Complain About
To Find Problems To Solve Just Listen To What People Complain About
In a report to Congress in 1843, Henry Ellsworth, a Patent Office Commissioner, stated: “The advancement of the arts, from year to year…
Alex Ponomarev
May 16, 2020
Do Entrepreneurs Have to Be Crazy?
Do Entrepreneurs Have to Be Crazy?
“I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” — Steve…
Alex Ponomarev
May 14, 2020
How A Solo Technical Founder Can Market The Product Without a Team Or Funding
How A Solo Technical Founder Can Market The Product Without a Team Or Funding
Most of the time I’m writing about non-technical founders because that’s who I work with mostly. The technical founders run into somewhat…
Alex Ponomarev
May 13, 2020
Few Things You Need To Know About Open-source Licenses
Few Things You Need To Know About Open-source Licenses
I love open source. It’s the greatest thing that happened to the world after the Internet. The reason I became a software developer is…
Alex Ponomarev
May 12, 2020
Create A Launch Team For Your Product
Create A Launch Team For Your Product
The hardest thing for any tech startup is to find product-market fit. I sometimes think that it’s easier, for example, for a restaurant…
Alex Ponomarev
May 9, 2020
Build The Waitlist Before You Build Your Product
Build The Waitlist Before You Build Your Product
A landing page is a great way to test the overall viability of your idea. The best thing about it is that you can create one and send…
Alex Ponomarev
May 8, 2020
Build Your Next App Without Code
Build Your Next App Without Code
Have you heard of NoCode apps? Basically, it’s a new class of apps that allow you to build your own apps or connect them with each other…
Alex Ponomarev
May 7, 2020
How To Manage Highly Unpredictable Software Projects
How To Manage Highly Unpredictable Software Projects
FBuilding a software product can be overwhelming when you’re trying to wrap your head around it. Any project can be, really. But software…
Alex Ponomarev
May 6, 2020
Is Doing Everything Yourself As A Founder The Right Thing?
Is Doing Everything Yourself As A Founder The Right Thing?
When someone says “startup founder,” most people picture a nerdy programmer. He is so good with technology that he came up with some cool…
Alex Ponomarev
May 5, 2020
Writing down the requirements and creating mockups for your app
Writing down the requirements and creating mockups for your app
Bruce Lee once said:” A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” If there’s no goal…
Alex Ponomarev
May 4, 2020
How To Build a Product That Is Actually Useful
How To Build a Product That Is Actually Useful
Did you know that most startups die because no one needs products they are building? Ignorance is the worst thing any entrepreneur can…
Alex Ponomarev
May 2, 2020
How Non-tech founders can use NoCode to build products
How Non-tech founders can use NoCode to build products
I don’t get it why there’s still a stigma on non-tech founders trying to build tech startups. That’s simply not fair in my opinion — the…
Alex Ponomarev
May 1, 2020
The Power Of Combining Skills
The Power Of Combining Skills
“Why are you spending time on this?” a friend of mine asked me.
Alex Ponomarev
Mar 2, 2020
Unstuck Your Marketing By Focusing On One Thing You Can Control At A Time
Unstuck Your Marketing By Focusing On One Thing You Can Control At A Time
My wife’s father has a small business building and selling easels. He’s really good at woodworks and been doing it for many years, but…
Alex Ponomarev
Jan 5, 2020
Use Design System To Streamline Your Process
Use Design System To Streamline Your Process
Design systems are now part of the work I do every day. The reason I want to talk about them is that I see a lot of teams still doing UX…
Alex Ponomarev
Jan 4, 2020
Thoughts on Genuine Networking from a Quiet Software Developer
Thoughts on Genuine Networking from a Quiet Software Developer
When I was in school, I always admired the popular kids — you know, the ones who were comfortable speaking to just about anyone. It seemed…
Alex Ponomarev
Jan 3, 2020
How to find a co-founder for your startup
How to find a co-founder for your startup
“If your business partners aren’t working as hard as you, it’s not a partnership. It’s a sinking ship” — Julian Hall, entrepreneur
Alex Ponomarev
Jan 2, 2020
How do you know when to develop a mobile app first?
How do you know when to develop a mobile app first?
“We need a desktop app because our users need to work offline,” “the target audience of the app would prefer mobile,” “it’s easier to keep…
Alex Ponomarev
Jan 1, 2020
How Influential Vlogger Casey Neistat Built An Audience Of One Million Followers
How Influential Vlogger Casey Neistat Built An Audience Of One Million Followers
Do you know Casey Neistat? If you’re into writing or video production, chances are that you do. Casey’s one of the most influential…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 31, 2019
So Your Product Launch Was a Flop. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Freak Out
So Your Product Launch Was a Flop. Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Freak Out
FProduct launch days are overrated. They put pressure on founders to create flawless products. The more we anticipate a launch and hope…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 30, 2019
How To Make Sure You Picked the Right Startup Idea, According to a Successful Founder
How To Make Sure You Picked the Right Startup Idea, According to a Successful Founder
Recently I watched an amazing video in which Alice Bentick, the co-founder of a seed investment program called Entrepreneur First, gave a…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 29, 2019
The Fears That Keep Me from Showing My SaaS to Other People
The Fears That Keep Me from Showing My SaaS to Other People
I’m building an app that helps teams work with people across multiple time zones. For more than a month now, as I’ve been working on the…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 28, 2019
Start with What You’ve Got and Improve Gradually
Start with What You’ve Got and Improve Gradually
“Rome wasn’t built in one day.” You’ve probably heard that, right? For some reason, we forget that advice in our everyday lives. We look…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 27, 2019
The Big Black Door: Overcoming Your Fear of the Unknown
The Big Black Door: Overcoming Your Fear of the Unknown
There once was a criminal who was sent to a king for committing a crime. The king was going to punish the criminal. He gave the criminal…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 21, 2019
Why You Should Consider Making Your Startup Fully Remote
Why You Should Consider Making Your Startup Fully Remote
I’m a professional remote worker. When I first started working remotely, the term “freelancer” was new to almost everyone. People shook…
Alex Ponomarev
Dec 20, 2019
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