Viewing profile — jaredbrown

Correct

I think it's super attractive to new businesses to push their wares via a generous free plan. But in the end, unless you think word of mouth is going to take off. Validating your b…

I agree that it seems cleaner. Ultimately what I want is a clear funnel segmented by referral sources.

Very interesting!

I really like the idea of having a bunch of litmus tests like this that you can rate just about any business concept against. I think far too often people get married to the first …

If you are not writing unit tests yet you may want to ask yourself why you are in the minority. How do you compare to the results in this survey?

Congrats and thanks for sharing.

I might have to use that the next time I pitch a client on the virtues of unit testing.

I recommend the following strategy: 1. Don’t ship any new features without writing unit tests for them first. 2. These new features most likely rely on parts of existing code so wr…

In my experience this strategy only works with small projects. Projects with any level of complexity will have you running from fire to fire and it will impede your forward progres…

I have used proz.com and was able to find a good translator. I would classify my experience as good. My biggest issue was not having something like what Canonical's Launchpad provi…

You mention hiring people on an evaluation period. That makes sense. But where do you find these people in the first place?

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it

Thanks! I'm a strong believer that entrepreneurial developers need to have a passion to learn marketing. I'm terrible at it but I'm eager to learn more.