How To Create a Successful MVP
If you’re planning to build a digital product, a mobile or web app, you should think about how to address your future users’ needs and predict potential risks early on in the development process.
From startup to scale-up: how to choose a tech partner for the long-run
Are you looking to reach new levels of growth and expansion? It’s time to embrace some ideas to take you there. Going from startup to scale-up is much easier and faster with the right tech partner at…
Should I have an in-house Product Manager or an outsourced one?
When you begin building your startup, many questions arise. One such classic question is: Do you outsource product development, or do you hire people to build an in-house team?
Will I lose control if I outsource product development?
Long story short: No. You don’t have to lose control of your product’s development if you bring in an outside team to develop it.
The Startup CTO Dilemma: How to Overcome a Lack of Talent When Product Development Can’t Wait
So, you are trying to hire a local product development team for your startup, but it is just not working because there’s a huge lack of specialised development talent, or you do not have the budget.
5 Key Benefits of Ruby on Rails That Make It Startup-friendly
As startup CTOs know well, the success of any venture strongly relies on the ability to efficiently bring an idea to life, to turn a concept into reality.
4 quick tips to improve your communication skills
One of the essential skills that you’ll need is how to communicate all the things related to your work. I am constantly baffled by the lack of education/preparation that college provides for one of…
“There’s No I In Team” is a Lie
Ok, so the title is also a lie… There isn’t really a letter ‘i’ in the word ‘team’. But if you ignore that simple fact, my point remains — “There’s No I In Team” is a lie.
Are your meetings effective?
Meetings are becoming more and more a central part of almost all organisations. According to a study , in the US alone workers have 11 million meetings a day, which adds up to 55 million meetings per…
Productivity: Happiness and the Work / Life balance fallacy
During the last few decades, the workforce landscape has changed drastically. The repetitive, “factoryesque” jobs that proliferated and dominated after the industrial revolution are becoming more and…
Working for a US company from Lisbon as an offshore team
In February of 2016, I started a new experience in my life. I was cast as the leader of a team (a team of two, at the time, including myself, though having grown a lot more since then…) that would…
Building Up Team Spirit
Behind any successful project there’s always a successful team.
Communication inside my team
In a previous blog post I talked about some aspects that you should be aware of if you want to be a better team leader. One that I purposefully left out is the communication within a team, not…
Lead by becoming dispensable
In my last post, I talked about some of the things that I believe are crucial for improving as a team leader.
The Right Tool for Achieving your Dreams
Recently I did a presentation to the Runtime Revolution team about Goal planning. I talked about ‘ SMART ’, ‘ DUMB ’, Tony Robbins RPM and David Allen’s GTD .
4 Lessons from Startup Life
Back in 2012, I decided that I needed a change in my life… Even today I remember how I felt in the morning before going to work, so sad that I would almost start crying in desperation.
How I get organized
In this post, I’ll try to share some simple techniques to get organized, and talk a bit about why I bother with them.
Want to be a great team leader? The “usual stuff” is not enough!
Since the beginning of my career, being a team leader was on my path for evolving as a professional. But to be honest, I didn’t have a clue of what that meant.