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Using Slack To Run Your Business? Folks Are Confused.

Using Slack To Run Your Business? Folks Are Confused.

How good are we at actually running our businesses and organizations over email and Slack?
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Nathan Kontny
The Curse of Knowledge

The Curse of Knowledge

YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW THIS. BUT, I’M PROBABLY WRONG.
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Nathan Kontny
How Elon Musk Could Get You More Donors

How Elon Musk Could Get You More Donors

With a few minutes to spare, I was looking for a last minute gift for a friend and decided they’d love a donation made in their name. I…
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Nathan Kontny
Feature Creep And Why It Really Exists

Feature Creep And Why It Really Exists

I create a lot of stuff on a regular schedule. A daily vlog. A weekly article. And when I’m managing a software product, I often encourage…
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Nathan Kontny
How To Be More Creative

How To Be More Creative

We all know the more resources we have, the better our ability to create a successful company. More money, more talented employees, more…
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Nathan Kontny
Remote vs. Local. Funded vs. Bootstrapped. Let’s Fight.

Remote vs. Local. Funded vs. Bootstrapped. Let’s Fight.

Remote teams vs local. Funded vs bootstrapped. Monoliths vs. microservices. These are just a few of the many strong debates we have in the…
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Nathan Kontny
What’s holding you back? Not being as interesting as Casey Neistat.

What’s holding you back? Not being as interesting as Casey Neistat.

I talk with a lot of new writers and creators, and one of the most common complaints about not being able to get any traction for their…
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Nathan Kontny
Viral Marketing

Viral Marketing

Casey Neistat’s viral filmmaking secret
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Marketing Strategy — 95% Of Folks Are Making This Mistake

Marketing Strategy — 95% Of Folks Are Making This Mistake

And it’s easy to fix
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Why are you risking your customer’s future?

Running a business is rife with people trying to charge…

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Ruby on Rails Security

We talk to a lot of folks about Rails, from VCs looking to staff their next company to new coding bootcamp grads. And…

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Ruby On Rails Is Slow

The bosses are pinging you that the Rails app is slow. Customers are complaining. Panic sets in. People are upset. You…

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Sam Cortese

Recruiting employees? You’re doing it backwards.

You’re growing like a weed, new clients are breaking…

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Nathan Kontny

How to be a better salesperson

Don’t play poker with your clients

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Stealing ideas

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Sam Cortese

Salesforce Data Migration

How to prepare for one without making a giant mess.

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How to grow your “email list” — Use Slack instead?

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Rockstar Coders

Lorem ipsum generator? Skip it. Do this instead.

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Argue with your customers

In companies’ never ending quest to “Build something people want”, Paul Graham advises:

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