How can you protect an idea?
Photo by Hartwig HKD We advise a lot of startups and especially around this time of the year we get a lot of people who contact us with an idea that they want execute. Quite often a lot of these people are reluctant to tell us about the problem they are trying to solve and […]
Happy Holidays
We would like to wish you a happy holiday season. Please take a well-deserved break from your computer. Go enjoy an eggnog, coffee, or tea with someone you care about. Tell them how much they mean to you. Reconnect with an old friend or someone who used to be a friend, because you never know. There […]
The shift from building products to platforms
Photo by Alper Çuğun People use the terms product and platform interchangeably and the latter has turned into the new trendy catchphrase by entrepreneurs. Investors such as Peter Thiel have voiced their skepticism about the platform concept and call it a buzzword. When we talk about software, products and platforms refer to two diffe
Should a startup outsource product development?
Photo by Epic Bets Let’s say you have an idea; there are several ways to execute the product development: 1. Build it yourself You are a developer with $30,000 in the bank, you can probably pay your bill for a year at $2500/month before tax. You can do 100 hours of coding per month and […]