Startups
How to recognize and solve organizational problems
Here are a few steps that help us recognize and ultimately fix organizational issues.
Your worst boss
The first step of self-improvement is to recognize your symptoms.
Why startups need coffee
Good coffee is an often unspoken benefit and a companion to most things we do at work.
Running product retrospectives
Iterate on your processes as often as you do on your product; they will help you improve it faster.
Embracing remote work to travel the world
A lot of us can work remotely, but choose not to. Here’s why you should at least try it.
What to look for in a technical co-founder
If you want to launch a startup and your expertise lies in a non-technical area like sales or marketing, you’ll need to find a technical co-founder.
Start with a Minimum Viable Process
Building a company inevitably involves creating processes to handle routine and non-routine tasks. And most processes suck. They suck because they are often designed with an idealised view of what the work is like.
Lessons learned from building a product team
When we started building Plane I had close to zero experience running a product team. We’ve built a lot of products for our customers, but our strengths were in managing the design and engineering part of the process. We had a lot to learn.
How to hire remotely
Today’s most successful products aren’t just built at desks between 9 and 5, by colleagues who live in the same city. They’re built by people from all around the world out of coffee shops, parks and other inspiring places.
Finding work–life balance at a startup
Welcome to the world of startups, where the boundary between work and your private life is blurry.