Startups

Read guides and learn startup best practices on how to hire, pay, and take care of team members.

Embracing remote work to travel the world

A lot of us can work remotely, but choose not to. Here’s why you should at least try it.

Running product retrospectives

Iterate on your processes as often as you do on your product; they will help you improve it faster.

Why startups need coffee

Good coffee is an often unspoken benefit and a companion to most things we do at work.

Storytelling for startups

These are my notes from the talk “Storytelling for Innovators and Disruptors” by Susan Lindner, brand anthropologist at Emerging Media presented at InfoShare 2016. Enjoy.

Your worst boss

The first step of self-improvement is to recognize your symptoms.

I have my MVP—now what?

You built something people want. Now figure out how to reach and serve those people.

In the previous instalments of the series, I talked about how early-stage startups can leverage messaging bot to find their product-market fit. I also covered the dilemma of whether bots are here to stay or disappear, and why we still don’t know the answer.

Building bots for Slack

There are only a few good reasons to build a bot. The fact that everyone has one is not one of them.

Implementing baseline rhythm in CSS

In this guest post from Pilot engineer Jan Dudek, he discusses how designers can make their work look harmonious and clean by aligning type to a vertical grid. By correctly implementing the same visual rhythm, front-end architects can also achieve consistent, good-looking results more quickly and easily.

Handling organization crisis at growing companies

These are my notes from the talk “How to handle organization crisis in different growth stages” by Triin Kask of Greenhouse CI presented at InfoShare 2016. Enjoy.

Lessons learned from 50 user onboarding flows

In this guest post from product manager J. Michael Probert, he walks through what it takes to design an excellent user onboarding process.

The Chatbot Dilemma

There’s a lot of discussion going on on the web about whether chatbots are really the next big thing or just a short-term fad.

Why messaging bots are perfect for early-stage startups

Building a prototype? A messaging bot offers a few advantages over a full-blown app.

3 myths about Cucumber and Gherkin

Cucumber is a Behavior-Driven Development style software tool. If you’re not familiar with it, here are its main advantages.

Hosting multiple Heroku apps on a single domain

In this guest engineering post from Pilot's CEO Matt Drozdzynski, he discusses how a single application on Heroku can have any number of domains assigned to it, but you can only add a domain to one app.

How to recognize and solve organizational problems

Here are a few steps that help us recognize and ultimately fix organizational issues.

Start with a Minimum Viable Process

Building a company inevitably involves creating processes to handle routine and non-routine tasks. And most processes suck. They suck because they are often designed with an idealised view of what the work is like.

Becoming a Better Manager

The lack of management is as bad, if not worse, than bad management.

9 tools that help me be more efficient

Over the last two years, I’ve learned how to be an efficient assistant with a few clever tools.

How To Avoid Distractions When Working From Home

Working remotely doesn’t make you efficient on its own, but there are a few healthy habits that can help.

Optimizing Rails deployment on Heroku

Time-consuming deployment process makes developers wait longer to see their changes live. Apart from being a context switch trigger, it becomes a serious issue when landing an important fix on production takes minutes or more.