For the past couple of months, I’ve had the chance to travel the world while taking time off from work in order to focus on improving my physical health. Now that I’ve met the goals I set out to achieve before departing on my journey through Europe and Asia, I can’t wait to jump…
Puff told me likeThe key to this jointThe key to staying on top of thingsIs treat everything like it’s your first project, nomsayin’Like it’s your first day like back when you was an internLike, that’s how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry – Notorious B.I.G
As the New Year already started to 2 days ago, I’m a little bit behind with what I promised myself to be better at in 2015, which is: shifting the balance from consuming to producing. What I mean by that is (when reflecting on 2014), I definitely feel like I spent 80% of my time…
The main reason for defining my goals this year was because of a brief discussion I had at this year’s NYE party. We talked about our regrets for years past rather than what we hope to accomplish for the upcoming year. This leads me to reflect on things that I wished I had done sooner.…
Have a Solid Plan Before coming into the program I would highly stress putting together a comprehensive product roadmap for the duration of the program as well as 2 months after. Start by splitting the upcoming 3 months into individual weeks & writing out goals both for the tech side (development, design, ux etc.) of…
Ever since I`ve settled on the path of being a full-time developer my lifestyle changed dramatically. Over the past 4 years I`ve been gaining weight at a steady pace, even though I`ve been to somewhat psychically active. Having completed a Tough Mudder, Spartan Race last year & being able to keep up with some of the…
Today after having a great morning training session, I came back home, had a quick breakfast and sit down to morning ritual, of checking Twitter, Facebook & various RSS feeds. I`m a big fan of batching, which is grouping similar tasks together so you essentially focus on one “theme” at a time, like for example:…
Tonight I had the opportunity to sneak into a sold-out event at AlleyNYC , organized by Startup Grind. The guest of the evening was the one and only Steve Blank, the godfather of “Customer Development” & author of Four Steps to the Epiphany as well as The Startup Owners Manual. In most startup circles he`s regarded as the catalyst to all…
The Importance of Testing Business guys that are trying to get into the startup game are a dime a dozen. That’s why is so important to filter through the ones that are all talk, no action.Sure you could probably validate them through references, previous positions held & how well they performed at those. However, why…
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson A lot of people tend to think that creating a product or service is the hard part. When actually selling and promoting the idea is what really matters. No matter whats the idea is, if…