Everything You Do At Your Company Should Create Value
Everything you do should create value. When deciding to venture down the road of entrepreneurship, many people will tell you that you need to define a problem, attack the problem, and of course provide a solution in order to develop a viable product. Some, or really...
How do you feel about computerized bugs crawling up and down your body?
Fun fact: Adding /4 to the end of Facebook’s URL will take you to Mark Zuckerberg’s profile. ROBO VEHICLES Does a 120-mile beer run justify as a “proof-of-concept” for autonomous vehicles? Otto, the self-driving vehicle company owned by Uber, announced its prototype...
Do you feel like a fraud? It’s normal, read what to do about it.
Every entrepreneur, or at least most of us will feel like a fraud at one point. We tell our friends and family we’re working. We invest money and time into things that may or may not work. We work from home, café’s and sometimes lack the office space that makes us feel “normal”. We tell ourselves that and the rest of the world that we wholeheartedly believe in a mission. That our product is unique, that our product is solving problem x, and that we have the power to disrupt an industry of some sort.
Swaddle, Side-stomach, Shush, Swing, Suck.
This week we talk cyber attacks, robo cradles, Swedish Fish Theory, and design secrets.
Do I Really Need to Hire a Designer If a Developer Can Do the Job?
As every entrepreneur knows, when bootstrapping or working with a small budget, it’s important to be very careful with resources. It’s easy to fall into the trap of wanting one team member to take on the responsibilities of multiple roles. With design, it’s unfortunate yet common enough for teams to have their engineering talent handle the task. But there is an opportunity cost of having developers partition their workflow to do design and development, giving them less time to do the work they excel at. Plus, design will likely take them more time than someone who is familiar with design tools.
Ever wonder how Netflix serves a great streaming experience?
Newsletter | Wednesday, October 19th 2016
This week we talk mind-controlled robotic arms, Netflix A/B tests, Soylent sickness, social tech and stupid side projects.
A Surefire Way to Get Results With Remote Teams
If you’ve ever worked on any remote or “outsourced” team then you’re about to be nodding your head, familiar with the all too many problems of communication that arise. Often times the distance barrier creates misunderstandings and those misunderstandings lead to false assumptions which have far worse implications.
What do you think of when you hear the word “GIF”?
This week we talk bees, glowing lanes, GIFs, cryptic symbols, and life lessons.
Agile MVPs and The Entrepreneurs Who Don’t Love Them
There’s a lot of talk in startup land (and even in enterprise worlds) about utilizing Agile methodologies to build Minimal Viable Products (MVPs). While the idea of incremental iteration, based on tests and data, is a great way to assess a feature set’s success, this Agile method is a dangerous approach to creating products for emerging startups.
A letter to friends: we’re stoked to introduce Ludlow.io!
Hi friends, We’ve gotten a ton of positive feedback about our weekly newsletter (Ludlow.io), and we thought we’d share our story - why we created one, how we decided to revamp it, and then the exciting stuff. We want to thank you for all your support (you guys are...
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