Short Tips

I occasionally hear back from people I haven’t seen in a decade. The email format doesn’t really matter as long as it’s respectful and to the point. It’s common for busy entrepreneurs and founders to draft brief emails - sometimes even a paragraph or two. The common courtesy doesn’t hurt either - but everyone who’s actively...

The advisory market is pretty invisible online. The best startup business advisors have founded and operated bootstrapped businesses themselves. I’ve had one-off coaching calls with serial entrepreneurs and even VCs and their tips were straight to the point. Consider approaching former founders with successful exits or folks who ran ...

A few years ago, the market was saturated by emerging startups inventing the next “Uber for X” or “Airbnb for Y”. The implementation was often flawed, but the concept remains legitimate. Once a market grows to $50B, $100B, $500B, a segmented space still represents a significant chunk worth fighting for. ConvertKit is a wonde...

Have you been thinking about switching to a career in SEO? Your previous job profiles might have also required analytical thinking and understanding of human behavior which is great. But, the majority of the work conducted in SEO is more technical.  SEO tasks usually include activities such as: Link acquisition (research, ou...

Every company has designed different workflows long before a trainer is approached for a class. For instance, we’ve got regular meetings and training sessions at DevriX that currently look like this: A Monday all-hands meeting at 10:30am to 11:30am (30min for the entire team and 30min for several departments, discussing sprints and p...

I wrote a lengthy piece discussing my pains with Slack over the past few years. When we switched over, it was a necessity due to the poor notification management provided by other platforms, both on desktop and mobile. We used to rely on HipChat before, after Skype long ago, and it simply failed to prompt us when a new message arrives ...

I run two distributed companies and I’ve worked remotely three times prior to that. There are certain cases where remote employees who travel while working may not be ideal. For instance, whenever you’re expected to attend meetings on-site or in specific time zones remotely, it can be very challenging. If you work in a bank or anot...