Category: Startups
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When does it make sense to use a recruiter for hiring engineers?
For hiring engineers, it’s really tricky (probably impossible) to find a recruiter that will actually deliver
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Innovation in incentives – how should startups structure salaries, bonuses, commission, stock options?
Compensation packages should be just that – a package selected from various options that are truly linked to outcomes and motivations
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What is the difference between customer success and account management?
You can’t just move from account management into customer success and apply the same approach. So what’s the different between them?
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Challenges of running an enterprise SaaS business in the UK
There are very few SaaS businesses founded and being scaled in the UK or Europe.
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Rewriting, refactoring, rearchitecting – when is the right time?
“It’s done when it’s done” simply doesn’t work with any real product, but the balance of “good enough” is difficult to get right.
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You can’t build a SaaS company in 2018 without significant funding
The capital required to scale SaaS means in 2018, raising VC is the only option.
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Predicting the next decade of self driving cars, SaaS and China
AI-driven SaaS 3.0, self-driving ride sharing and human space exploration. That’s the next decade.
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Leave the room to get feedback from your board
The best way to get quality feedback from your board is to leave the room so they can discuss things without you there! Fear of conflict is a bad thing.
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You don’t need to be an expert to integrate AI in your startup
Originally published on The Next Web. We’re used to hearing that AI and machine learning is hopelessly complex, impossible to implement quickly, and that if you want to get on board the machine learning bandwagon you’ll need to invest heavily in PhDs, specialists and expensive experts. This way of thinking…
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Can Google’s 20% time really work for your startup?
Originally written for VentureBeat. Google’s 20 percent time is one of the most famous, and arguably successful, management practices of all time. In their 2004 IPO letter, Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin revealed that the policy of allowing employees to take time out of their core jobs to…