As the previous year came to end I’ve decided to take my first personal retreat to decompress and digest all that has happened in 2017 both for OpsYard as well as my personal life. I’ve been fortunate enough to grow my little product studio from me plus another person working part-time, into a team of…
Before diving in on talking to potential customers you should focus on creating a place where they can find out more about what you’re doing. This can range from a PDF pitch deck, explainer video to full-blown website with fancy design. Since at the early stages you should avoid investing too much time in fancy…
Since the bulk of my consulting work is winding down for Q4. I’ve decided to dive deeper into exploring new internal projects I’d like to work on. In the past couple of months through client work, I’ve gotten more familiar with Ad Tech space. Mainly how medium to large e-commerce companies setup & optimize their…
As much as I don’t like to admit it, I consider myself an introvert. My childhood was spent traveling around the world with my parents due to my dad’s job. I’ve lived in North Carolina, Santa Barbara, Chicago & then going all the way over to Europe where I spent my teen years. That forced…
Business is Business, software or psychical goods. No matter if you’re selling software, a house cleaning service or beef jerky there are three things you look at: product, price and who you sell it to. What people are willing to pay is easy to determine since for most businesses there’s already competition out there. If…
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 right…
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 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 researching…
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…