Reading Josh Williams’ story of Gowalla, something he said really hit home.
The path less traveled.
Reading Josh Williams’ story of Gowalla, something he said really hit home.
Buying anything online from a European provider is likely to be a hair-pulling experience.
As professionals, we often believe the job-to-be-done is providing our customers with the tools and information to make decisions. In reality, we need to take it one step further.
My new investment book, Money for Something, has been out for about a month now. During that time, I’ve gotten some great feedback, and have made some interesting observations that I’d like share with you in this article.
Can scheduling effort in blocks of one week help the service company’s productivity?
In our experience, Google ads blew Facebook ads out of the water.
For future reference, here are some photos of the Makalu Interactive office in beautiful Marbella, Spain. (These are samples from a photo set on Flickr, in case you want to see more.)
As Alex and I enjoyed an afternoon tortilla at the Tinglao, we watched in weirdly terrifying humor, at this group of professionals trying to install…
It’s always difficult to tell potential customers that we simply don’t know how long it’s going to take to build a software system, if said system is moderately complex. This is one reason we avoid fixed-priced projects — when the cost of building something is unknown, you want to make sure both you and the customer are on the same side of the table. It’s also why the principle of building the simplest system possible is so important.
My colleague in MakaluMedia, Alex Bendiken, just won the Slashdot.com redesign contest. His and our servers are now experiencing a “slashdotting”. This should be quite…