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Engineering leaders face a constant tension: building the perfect, scalable system versus shipping products that generate revenue. Learn how successful technical leaders navigate this balance, keeping engineering excellence in sight while delivering business value that keeps the lights on.
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Attempting to log into Hulu reveals a customer focus on sales, not on maintaining relationships with active, paying customers.
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Cost analysis can be a tricky exercise in the technology space as not all costs are readily apparent during price shopping.
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How expensive is the open source tool you’ve found? How about the managed, hosted, SaaS alternative? Should you build your own instead?
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Pivoting at the right moment can save your business. It might be a bit frightening, but it doesn’t spell the end of your story.
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Supply and demand. It’s one of the most important principles in economics. Consequently, it’s also of massive importance to marketing.
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Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to chat with some incredible people around the WP Watercooler. We were talking about strategies for writing/blogging more in 2014, and I wanted to further explain one strategy I particularly enjoy (and plan to implement this year).
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When you’re looking for a job, the most important thing to understand is your personal brand. What reputation does your name carry? What is the first impression employers get from your resume? What tone do you use throughout your cover letter? These are just elements of the “first impression” your brand makes with potential employers.
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Yesterday, I was sitting in a coffee shop chatting when I ran into the most interesting issue. The woman at the table next to us was on the phone, and her conversation became a little heated. Since it was a personal call, she decided to excuse herself from the shop and finish the call outside.
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Biscuits and gravy, biscuits and gravy Get ’em all over your shirt! Biscuits and gravy, biscuits and gravy Eat ’em ’til it hurts! This is a song, well, more of a chant that we used to do at summer camp a few years ago. Every Wednesday for breakfast we would have biscuits and gravy. I