My college soccer coach used to always tell us to “control the controllables” about ten times a week during the season (and ten is probably a conservative estimate). Even though…
Continue readingA few weeks ago I came across a new framework for thinking about “what makes a startup investable” that I found very useful so I thought I would share it….
Continue readingMy name is Charlie. I help companies develop great products through dedicated software teams and am a co-founder of an innovative IT school in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Fill free to connect…
Continue readingI would say at least 50% of the Founders I talk to have wasted a significant amount of time and money working with a low-quality software team or company. Usually…
Continue readingMy name is Charlie. I help companies develop great products through staff augmentation and by providing dedicated software teams. You can connect with me on LinkedIn. A lot of people have…
Continue readingA Gentle Introduction to Live Video. Producing good live video is historically hard. And I don’t only mean in terms of human expertise and effort. It happens to be an…
Continue readingMy favorite description of what a Product Manager is supposed to do is still the essay from Ben Horowitz. In my own experience building products, I sometimes find it helpful to…
Continue readingI wrote this essay as a reflection of my start-up experience across 3 companies I founded over the last 7 years. The most recent company (vLoop) was sold about 10…
Continue readingThere is a big debate going on right now about whether it makes more sense to stream your sporting events to Facebook Live or YouTube vs hosting them on your…
Continue readingThis post doesn’t make any assumptions about whether you believe blockchain is the future of mankind — and that future is right now — or you feel scalability, security issues…
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