I’d encourage more founders to give themselves the same challenge to focus their time, team and resources on getting to profitability before firing up powerpoint and hitting the road for a raise. You may surprise yourselves with how attainable that goal can be, and how empowering that independence can feel.Before You Pitch Your Next Round, Try This Instead
In-between such big point-releases, sales will often drop to a non-sustainable level. So it’s not that we’re getting rich during the development period, and even richer after each update. No. We’re actually losing money during development.Why we’re switching Ulysses to Subscription
Helvetica’s expensive licensing fees meant that not all of IBM’s employees had access to the font. Now all 380,000 people will be able to use and see the same typeface. IBM is also making the font free for anyone in the world to download, but the final version won’t be released until early 2018.Why IBM Created Its Own Typeface After A Century Without One
The first step we took towards creating better estimates, was starting smaller. This doesn’t mean clients have to give up on their big, grand vision. It just means we break the project into the smallest pieces possible and focus on delivering faster.How we improved our engineering estimates by 1082%
If your cash is limited, try to see what you and your team are already doing and then hire people to take those jobs. It may sound counterintuitive, but if you’re already doing it presumably it needs to be done, you have a good sense of the type of skills required to do it, and you can bring someone on-board and get them up to speed quickly. That then frees you up to focus on tasks that can’t be done by someone else.Early Challenges: Making Critical Hires
