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 | 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...
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 | 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...
by jordicabot | Sep 13, 2011 | business model, product development, stories entrepreneur
Some months ago a colleague asked me how much FastSpring was taking from each sale I was making. The answer? I had no idea. Sure, I should know this but the truth is that when you are not making any money (as I was at the time) it doesn’t really matter the...
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