by jordicabot | Jan 8, 2017 | customers, philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
The notion of code coverage is well known in software testing. In short, it computes how well the test suite you are using to test the quality of the code covers all parts (statements/conditions/…) of that code. Obviously, the higher your code coverage the lower...
by jordicabot | Dec 23, 2013 | customers, philosophy, stories entrepreneur
In the initial phases of any client work, you obviously exchange quite a few emails with the client. This exchange is for free, all the information we provide at this stage is aimed at understanding what the client wants and making sure s/he understand what...
by jordicabot | Mar 20, 2013 | business model, customers, stories entrepreneur
When offering a project-based service some of your clients repeat while you never hear back from others. Surprisingly enough, this recurrence property does not correlates with the variable “the client said s/he would hire you again”. Therefore, I dare to...
by jordicabot | Jun 17, 2012 | business model, customers, philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
The KISS principle is probably the most popular one among entrepreneurs these days. But, as all things in life, we must be careful to know when our list of features is simple enough. Even Einstein warned “us” saying that a theory should be as simple as...
by jordicabot | May 8, 2012 | customers, legal, stories entrepreneur
Most (all?) of us selling services have clients that went missing after doing the work. This has happened to me (when I started, I’m not so naive anymore, and luckily it was only an invoice of 200 USD) but I was not aware the problem was so common. I just...
by jordicabot | Mar 5, 2012 | business model, customers, stories entrepreneur
This is the third in a series of posts trying to explain what I think went wrong with my attempt of selling online code-generation services, that I end up shutting down due to the lack of clients. In previous posts, I recommended to Choose a cool technology to sell...