by jordicabot | Jun 29, 2012 | business model, philosophy, stories entrepreneur
In this recent article (by Peter J Denning and Nicholas Dew, Communications of the ACM), the authors kill the myth of the utmost importance of the elevator pitch for your startup business. I strongly recommend you to read the full article but for those that do not...
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 | Apr 4, 2012 | philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
You may think I’m nuts but as counter-intuitive as it may seem, I’ve improved my productivity since having my first baby six months ago. Sure, the first three months were horrible (in terms of sleep deprivation) and some days I even thought about closing...
by jordicabot | Feb 14, 2012 | business model, customers, philosophy, stories entrepreneur
When you have no clients (and you’ve been pushing the product long enough) is easy to realize that you better drop the product and go back to the drawing board. When you have many many clients, it’s a no brainer to go on (and become filthy rich 🙂 ) The...
by jordicabot | Dec 1, 2011 | philosophy, product development, stories entrepreneur
The best sentence I´ve found so far to summarize the daily struggle of solo entrepreneurs (specially when they have a full-time day job) is the following: “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and...
by jordicabot | Sep 27, 2011 | philosophy, product development, productivity, stories entrepreneur
The real productivity killer is not email, twitter, facebook or checking the Dow Jones every five minutes per se. Getting bad news (e.g. an angry client message, a new competitor, a lost project bid, etc) is what really kills your productivity. A single bad news can...