At StarterSquad, we believe that startups hold the key to innovation and the power to improve our everyday lives. That’s why we thrive in helping them build their products, grow their teams and reach their target market faster. Despite a troubled global economy, we have seen startups sprout and succeed across multiple continents. But how… Read more →
StarterSquad is a team of remote developers distributed across different time-zones in almost all continents. While working in such a manner, we experienced and evolved certain patterns and practices on collaboration. Through a series of posts, we’ll share our experience. In this post, let’s share some patterns on remote collaboration. Remote Pairing Agile software development… Read more →
This post was co-authored by Iwein Fuld. Founder of Capacitor, the workplace where companies develop their apps with the help of distributed teams. Sign up for Capacitor today and we’ll double your credits (up to €500) to hire a team for your project! StarterSquad operates as a community, not as a company. All members are entrepreneurs,… Read more →
What are the top five priorities in your company right now? Most likely, they look something like this: growing your customer base, retaining your customers and driving revenue from your customers. As such, these priorities make perfect sense. But what if you could reach all three of these objectives by focusing on happiness as your… Read more →
150 years ago, everybody was working from home, and everybody was an entrepreneur. Not everything was easy, but if you made a living, you were most probably doing it with a small local business. Then the industrial revolution happened, from that point we invented commutes, workplaces and enterprises. Now most of us commute to the… Read more →
At StarterSquad I’m collaborating with a distributed community of freelance teams. Forming teams and matching development capacity to client projects isn’t always a trivial exercise. Since I believe strongly in self organizing teams (and I’m a lazy manager), I’ve left it up to the members to do the organizing themselves. This used to happen in… Read more →
This post was written by Iwein Fuld, Founder of Capacitor, the workplace where companies develop their apps with the help of distributed teams. Sign up for Capacitor today and we’ll double your credits (up to €500) to hire a team for your project! The single most important driver for long term success is the ability of… Read more →
Last Weekend Iwein, Tiziano and Daan from the StarterSquad Team visited Timișoara for the local Startup Weekend. As always this was an energizing experience with a lot of learning and networking going on. At this event StarterSquad was both Sponsor and Mentor. Some reflections of 54 hours high-speed entrepreneurship. The beer team didn’t win Most… Read more →
You have a great idea, a cool name in mind and the appropriate space for starting your personal business— but unfortunately not enough cash and this one of the most common problems encountered. Investing in a small business, referring mostly to startups, is like a war fight on a crowded field because of the large… Read more →
A week ago I stumbled on an interesting article by Petri Kainulainen about estimations. It argues that because estimations are invariably going to be wrong, you should stop doing them. In fact they can be counterproductive because they trigger gaming instead of adding value. I believe this is true to some extent, although I also… Read more →
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