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They're not your customers anyway

May 2, 2014, 2 minutes to read

That bastard cracked your $1 app. ONE DOLLAR. That’s all you asked in exchange for the hours you put in, and the guy still didn’t pay. People like that should be executed. Like in the middle ages - an arm for an arm, an eye for an eye. Chill. He wasn’t your customer anyway.

How much does a good developer cost?

January 31, 2012, 2 minutes to read

10 is more than 5. Hiring a great developer for 10 a month costs twice as much as hiring a good developer for 5. Maybe you’re not building the next Google. Maybe you’re not working on processing petabytes of CERN experiment data. You probably don’t need a genius to write the code of your application. You hire the good one and pay less, then end up paying way more.

I don't want to be in a startup

September 25, 2011, 1 minute to read

Being in a startup means going to startup events to meet other startups and talk about startups. You may think of a “startup” as two guys working feverishly in a garage and suddenly dropping the bomb of a revolutionary new product onto the unsuspecting world. But what I saw is best summarized by a friend’s comment: “have you actually seen them ship anything?”

It's not a rodeo, cowboy

May 16, 2011, 2 minutes to read

The market for something to believe in is infinite. I haven’t seen any better evidence of this being true, than during yesterday’s finale of Startup Weekend Warsaw. The team with the most daring, creative, inspiring idea for a project won by a landslide and swept away half of the numerous prizes. Business played second-string.

Agile is the business approach to software engineering

April 23, 2011, 2 minutes to read

Try, fail, adjust, go back to step one. So it goes on until failure turns into success or you get bored and leave to do other stuff. Such is business. It’s extremely rare that an original idea becomes immediately successful. Most ideas go through an iterative process of trial and error and the end success comes from a sometimes completely different idea than the initial one.

Outsourcing sales is bad for business

November 16, 2010, 2 minutes to read

If a development team is the heart of an IT firm, then the sales team is its face. The eyes that scan markets, the mouth that speaks about products, ears that listen to customers and the nose that sniffs for opportunities and problems. There are successful companies with great sales and lousy technology, while marvellous technologies with bad salesmen perish quickly. Why would you want to operate your business without a face?

"Beta" is here to stay

October 14, 2010, 1 minute to read

Every web application is in “beta” these days. It’s these pesky developers excusing buggy software by saying “we’re working on it, so expect a few quirks”. Can’t they deliver quality? Not really, folks, sorry. Business is too quick nowadays.