Category Archives: product development

Wanna improve your productivity? Have a baby!

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

You may think I’m nuts but as counter-intuitive as it may seem, I’ve improved my productivity since having my first baby six months ago. Sure, the first three months were horrible (in terms of sleep deprivation) and some days I … Continue reading →

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My daily choice: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

The best sentence I´ve found so far to summarize the daily struggle of solo entrepreneurs (specially when they have a full-time day job) is the following: “We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the … Continue reading →

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Bad news are the real productivity killer

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

The real productivity killer is not email, twitter, facebook or checking the Dow Jones every five minutes per se. Getting bad news (e.g. an angry client message, a new competitor, a lost project bid, etc) is what really kills your … Continue reading →

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Focus on what’s important or “X*0 = 0″

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Some months ago a colleague asked me how much FastSpring was taking from each sale I was making. The answer? I had no idea. Sure, I should know this but the truth is that when you are not making any … Continue reading →

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Good marketing helps but doesn’t do miracles

Posted on July 17, 2011 by

A good marketing strategy may multiply your clients by 10 or more but any quantity multiplied by zero is still zero!. This means that if, after a reasonable amount of time, you have absolutely no customers for your product, maybe … Continue reading →

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Customer code coverage

Posted on July 5, 2011 by

The notion of code coverage is well known in software testing. In short, it computes how well the test suite you are using to test the quality of the code covers all parts (statements/conditions/…) of that code. In this post, … Continue reading →

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