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Would you pay 1000 USD for a good idea to improve your company?

by jordicabot | Jul 31, 2012 | business model, product development, stories entrepreneur

ManageWP is organizing a competition to get new ideas for the company. In particular, they will pay 1000 USD to the best idea (according to their own opinion) that could be implemented as a new feature for the ManageWP tool. Of course, I guess they expect to get many...
Too much KISS will kill you

Too much KISS will kill you

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...
Another anecdotal evidence of the complexity of choosing the right name for your product

Another anecdotal evidence of the complexity of choosing the right name for your product

by jordicabot | Jun 5, 2012 | advertisement, product development, stories entrepreneur

It turns out that Google AdWords thinks PHP-Nuke is a dangerous weapon. As such, it’s not possible to create ads that offer services around it. You can add “make sure ad networks will like it” to the typical guidelines to follow when choosing your...
Wanna improve your productivity? Have a baby!

Wanna improve your productivity? Have a baby!

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...

My daily choice: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

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...

Bad news are the real productivity killer

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...
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