Tag: Startup
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The Triangle of Scalability
3-dimensions of scalability to consider when curating a tech stack. Like in Seth McFarlane’s movie A Million Ways to Die in the West, there are a million ways to fail when building a tech company. Many of those ways, sadly, are entirely out of our control. Geo-political shifts, financial market volatility, new tech innovations, talent scarcity,…
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What Actually Makes Demos, MVPs and Full-products Different?
Definitions for Demos, MVPs and Full-builds to help you determine which one your startup needs Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels Word definitions are really, really important. When I ask the barista for my “large cold-brew, no milk and no sugar” each morning, 2-minutes later I’ll have exactly what I asked for. The reason that works…
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How to Better Describe Your Startup
5 strategies for describing startups that don’t involve buzzwords, non-words, and other marketing speak Let’s role-play. I’m a successful investor, and you’re an aspiring startup founder. We’ve bumped into one another at your favorite coffee-shop and strike up a conversation as the barista extracts my double-espresso. The relationship dynamic becomes clear; you want my money…
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Meeting GraphQL at a Cocktail Mixer
Photo by Jakob Dalbjörn on Unsplash GraphQL and REST are two specifications used when building APIs for websites to use. REST defines a series of unique identifiers (URLs) that applications use to request and send data. GraphQL defines a query language that allows client applications to specify precisely the data they need from a single endpoint.…