Software developers often think about starting a business of their own. There are freelance and remote working opportunities, the job requires understanding business models, and the pay is great.
Of course, the tricky question is - how to land repetitive customers?
4 Strategies For Bootstrapping Without A Sales Background
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Creating a positive work culture is a critical element in the success of any company.
In fact, 94% of business executives and 88% of employees surveyed believe that a distinct corporate culture is critical to the success of a business.
Your culture at work can have a huge impact on the performance of your employees and the ...
I stumbled upon a video called "How to Stop A Bully" by Brooks Gibbs today while surfing through LinkedIn. Here's the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oKjW1OIjuw
Now, Gibbs shares a number of valuable lessons during his research. Bullying is also called a "Dominance Behavior" by psychologists or establishing a state of p...
Few minutes ago I found out that Kickstarter was hacked, and user information was exposed. It's not the first time a popular site gets hacked (and it won't be the last, for sure), the interesting part however is why did that happen and what would be the right path for a service like this to handle the data protection layer for its users. Tha...
As a WordPress agency owner running my business and being responsible for dozens of people, my main goal is stability.
Stability in Business
John Lennon once said:
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans"
Since life is fragile itself and things change every single minute, the least we cou...
Remember the old saying, "People don't quit jobs, they quit managers."?
It's similar when the people in charge are at fault.
Highly motivated and enthusiastic people, or people who want to make a change, give up because they don't feel their leadership sees the future in the best possible manner. That leadership does not ta...
The world is built and based on several simple rules and everything else relies on them.
One of the main concepts is the leadership - each group has a leader (or few) responsible for managing everything important for a community.
The Big Picture
On a larger scale this could be the president, the God, the corporation's CEO etc. Leade...
Blogging has been around since the late 90s and there are millions of bloggers earning a good living thanks to their writing efforts.
Business owners, marketers, college students and everyone else is actively publishing online. With social media prevailing, a good percentage of the population is now actively producing content online.
B...
As a seasoned technical speaker at the Telerik Academy, I received an invitation for one of my favorite technical events - DevReach.
Despite the fact that I am too biased with Open Source and normally try to stay away from Microsoft and other companies relying mostly on closed source products, it's always helpful to see how other experts th...
A friend of mine approached me as they were sitting two tables from me. He introduced me to the guy who has spent a few months reading about PHP, Java, system administration, and relevant fields, being clueless as to what’s the best career path for him.
The conversation revolved around several major points that I have enumerated be...
