Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 7, Business model design
by Matthew Adams
Endjin spend a lot of time working with start ups and businesses who are pivoting into new product areas. They are usually operating under fierce resource constraints, and this has an impact on the way in which they can approach their development program. We’ve evolved a principles-based approach to the new product development process which […]
You’re hiring the wrong people: 10 tips to find great developers
by Matthew Adams
Hiring developers is hard. Really hard. I mean, you might think it’s hard trying to hire, say, a commis chef for a restaurant… Actually, that’s much harder. For a start, the working environment is unappealing. It is hot, physically stressful and actively dangerous. The commis is probably about 17 years old, and has to do […]
Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 6, Follow on markets
by Matthew Adams
Endjin spend a lot of time working with start ups and businesses who are pivoting into new product areas. They are usually operating under fierce resource constraints, and this has an impact on the way in which they can approach their development program. We’ve evolved a principles-based approach to the new product development process which […]
Which programming language should I learn in 2015?
by Matthew Adams
Back in 2013, we looked at a brief history of the programming languages that gained traction in various different business domains, the near-hegemony of the C family of languages from the late 1980s, and their evolution into languages like Java, C#, and JavaScript. We concluded with a look at what drives the (buzzing) node.js community […]
Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 5, Getting to paying customers
by Matthew Adams
Endjin spend a lot of time working with start ups and businesses who are pivoting into new product areas. They are usually operating under fierce resource constraints, and this has an impact on the way in which they can approach their development program. We’ve evolved a principles-based approach to the new product development process which […]
Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 4, Competitive Positioning
by Matthew Adams
Endjin spend a lot of time working with start ups and businesses who are pivoting into new product areas. They are usually operating under fierce resource constraints, and this has an impact on the way in which they can approach their development program. We’ve evolved a principles-based approach to the new product development process which […]
Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 3, Understanding the Beachhead Market
by Matthew Adams
Endjin spend a lot of time working with start ups and businesses who are pivoting into new product areas. They are usually operating under fierce resource constraints, and this has an impact on the way in which they can approach their development program. We’ve evolved a principles-based approach to the new product development process which […]
Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 2, Inception
by Matthew Adams
Endjin spend a lot of time working with start ups and businesses who are pivoting into new product areas. They are usually operating under fierce resource constraints, and this has an impact on the way in which they can approach their development program. We’ve evolved a principles-based approach to the new product development process which […]
Hedy, Not Peck
by Matthew Adams
Welcome to the Hedy Lamarr (inventor of Frequency Hopping) version of the metaphor. Avoid Achieve You can read the rest of the post back here.
Step-by-step guide to bootstrapping your new product development – Part 1, Principles
by Matthew Adams
Endjin spend a lot of time working with start ups and businesses who are pivoting into new product areas. They are usually operating under fierce resource constraints, and this has an impact on the way in which they can approach their development program. We’ve evolved a principles-based approach to the new product development process which […]