This week is the one year anniversary of Lean Coffee Toronto. With more than 500 leanists involved and close to 100 sessions hosted, the community has become a key resource for entrepreneurs in the city. It had a humble beginning …
After a couple of months in private beta, the Rocketr team is ready to remove the curtains and let the sunshine real data in. The team did a lot of soul searching these past two months. We collected tremendous amounts of feedback, studied several early use…
You know… you try and embrace this lean stuff… you really do. You get the team to buy in. You orient processes around it. You hold high the mantra of “SHIP!” And you’re actually starting to make progress (and isn’t success really just progress…
Optimize them. This is the new name of the game. Take everything in your application – the simple act of creating any bit of content; a post, a comment, a topic, a tweet, a note, a question, a status update – take everything you have – and squeeze every drop of potential from the…
I’m beginning to understand what founders mean when they say that building a product is a rollercoaster ride. One day you’re on top of the world. The next day you’re doing a usability test. We’re closing in on 100 usability tests now since…
Today we launch a product. In a lot of ways, it’s no different from the dozens of products we’ve launched for clients to date. They all start with a small but powerful idea that, with the right amount of love, could create an order of magnitude difference…
Whenever you can, strive for the simplest solution possible. Not only does it save development time (and inevitably costs), but there’s a certain appeal to users when they’re faced with a clean, straight-forward and elegant solution. Take Twitter for Mac‘s …
A couple months ago I wrote a post titled, How To Find A Technical Co-Founder. It seemed to strike a chord with a lot of folks. Recently I was asked to articulate my thoughts on what a “business” co-founder ought to be responsible for…
I tried out Simplenote on my iPhone for the first time the other day and was pleasantly surprised by the speed and, well, simplicity of the app over the slightly more bloated Evernote. The UI in particular was pretty light …