Yura RiphyakExperience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. Randy Pausch So you’ve made up your mind at last. You gathered up your courage — and you will give it a shot. This brilliant idea just can’t wait any longer. If you...
In the previous post we tried to find out whether hiring a consultant is a good idea for startups and what makes a consultant the right one. The bottomline is that startup consultants can be surprisingly useful, but you have to pick only those who...
At YouTeam, we recently had a discussion with our clients about which contract type better suits a startup development project: Time & Materials or Fixed Price. We feel it’s very important to educate first time founders about the differences...
Tips for making the remote work from Ian Gotts, CEO of Elements.cloud Elements.cloud is the cloud application which helps Salesforce customers clean-up, document and drive adoption of their implementation. The app covers the entire implementation...
…and most likely also a few light-years around “Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.” Aristotle, “Nicomahean Ethics” An Austrian guy with vast beard and a...
Craig Cannon is the Director of Marketing at Y Combinator. Before joining YC Craig co-founded Comedy Hack Day, wrote a field guide to shipping containers, and set a world record on his bike. Craig is an adept of remote work. The engineering team...
Ken Carnesi, Mike Schroll, and Brian Gillis started DNSFilter after Ken struggled to find a content filtering solution that fit the needs of his business. Rather than settle for a solution that wasn’t ideal, they created their own. DNSFilter...
Bryan Helmig сo-founded Zapier in late 2011 with good friends Mike and Wade, which was admitted to YCS12 (Y Combinator) batch. Zapier is a web automation app to build Zaps which can automate the most tedious parts of your day to day job. You can...
Culture fit is an obvious concern for businesses making their first remote hire. It’s different when everyone’s working in the same office: people naturally get to know each other through hundreds of small exchanges during the day. New employees...
Here I will do my best to explain how to squeeze as much value as possible out of that bearded guy (or that lady with strange glasses) you’ve just signed a consulting services contract with. The key is to understand what past-founders-turned...