Conveying value to clients
Preface: This article was written mostly half a year ago, as I was wrapping up an intense period of freelancing and sub-contracting. It is less relevant for me now, as I'm now an equal partner in a...
View ArticleFinding your web business model
The web as a commercial venue has changed and evolved much in the relatively short time since its inception. As the medium and technology evolved, more and more "real-world" business models became...
View ArticleClient development – think partners, not employers
Saying there is a lot of variation in the field of web development would be a huge understatement. You have everything from anonymous freelancers to large known firms, several hundred dollar budgets to...
View ArticleSoftware licenses for dummies
The legal aspects of selling software are, for the most part, pretty vague for most developers. During preparations for launching our software market, Binpress, I absorbed a lot of information from our...
View ArticleFinding co-founders – Technical founder POV
First, a prelude - though I've mostly written technical articles on this blog, it's called techfounder for a reason - it was my original intention to also talk about startups from the view-point of the...
View ArticleDon’t Mix Business And Personal – Why Facebook Comments Is A Bad Idea For...
I like to leave comments on articles and blog posts I find interesting, and interact with the author. However, if the only option to leave a comment is through Facebook comments, I probably won't use...
View ArticleBuilding an app does not make you a startup
I just read Andrew Chen's Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999. He raises a good point about the closed nature of mobile app development, which for the most part is a reflection of the Apple...
View ArticleSuggestion to Twitter: Here’s how you monetize without ruining your ecosystem
As you probably heard, Twitter recently tightened the noose around API developers with new limits and restrictions. Twitter is possibly the biggest public API provider today, with 13 billion API calls...
View ArticleSolving the wrong problems
As a power user and an entrepreneur (not to mention a developer), I often look at a software product or service and think how I would've done it differently. If the concept is interesting enough, I...
View ArticleNetwork
Silicon valley is generally considered by most as the best place to build a technology company, due to the large concentration of talent and capital, unmatched anywhere else in the world at that scale....
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