I have been consulting recently with some start ups that have all at different stages in their development cycle. Something that I have found some business founders overlook is that your strategy, approach and focus need to change depending on the phase your business is in.
Typically you would classify your business into the following:
Conception or [...]
If you are a Django developer check out Django Foo, I have been writing some posts on there recently with the rest of my team.
Everytime we solve a problem that is not well documented we post our solutions on there. It has started to become a really good resource for the community.
Following on from my post last week I have been thinking about delegating and experimenting with personal outsourcing.
The stages of a business
When you start your business the founding entrepreneur is the face, soul and drive behind the business. As the business grows and more people join the team there is a point where the founder [...]
As an entrepreneur running a business there never seems to be enough time in the day, you start early and finish late. Sometimes it is hard to see the wood for the trees. So is a 4 hour work week possible?
I read “The Four Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferriss a while ago and have [...]
I read Crush It by Gary Vaynerchuk while I was on holiday a couple of weeks ago. It is a very good read, you can tear through it in a couple of hours.
It made me think that I should focus this blog on the things I am specialise in and the things I love to [...]
I have set myself the new blogging schedule to post at least one entry per week minimum. I will be writing my main article on a Wednesday so keep your eyes out for it!
As I have mentioned before it is really important to love what you do and enjoy your work. That being said everyone at some time or another needs a little boost of inspiration! I have felt a bit like that recently post Christmas and have found some really great resources that I wanted to share [...]
Just a very quick post to say that my senior developer has just started his long overdue blog: http://www.djangofoo.com.
The site is going to highlight the issues we come across and solve everyday, as with any framework (even the great ones like Django!) there are hacks, workarounds and things to improve.
Check it out, hopefully I will [...]
Over the couple of years I have been working on a very interesting collaborative project for Nesta and Oracle. The project started off as a small prototype based on an idea that was designed to encourage innovation at large corporate companies, and over several stages turned into an IP spin out of Oracle that is [...]
There are a lot of programmers out there these days. Since the explosion of the PC and then later the Internet there has been more and more people learning to programme in a computer centric world. But how do you go about finding the best ones?
I have had to hire many programmers over the years [...]
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