Your First 100 Days: A Playbook For Succeeding as an Incoming Engineering VP
Stepping into a new engineering VP role is equal parts exhilarating and daunting. It’s like being handed the keys to a high-performance race car… that’s sputtering along the highway at 80mph instead of the 180mph it’s capable of. Your challenge? Make an immediate impact, rescue floundering projects, and prove that... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
The Tool Stack We Use to Build Better Digital Products
When you’re building software products, your tool stack can make or break your process. And process, ladies and gentlemen, makes or breaks timelines (and just as importantly, budgets). Over the last 15+, we’ve worked with hundreds of startups and enterprise product teams, and one thing is always clear — having... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
Why Practical Founders Don’t Need VC Funding to Succeed
How many $50MM exits have you read about in the mainstream business press? Even regional business publications don’t highlight what I’d call huge wins enough. You read about unicorns. If you’re not taking on hundreds of millions in funding and exiting / IPO’ing for billions, you’re seemingly forgotten. That dynamic... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
Why Founders Should Stay in Founder Mode (Even After Hiring)
If you’re a founder (or considering becoming one), you’ve probably heard the advice: build to scale. Hire the right people, delegate tasks, and free yourself up to focus on the big picture. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this advice (no one expects you to carry the weight of your company... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
Looking to secure software startup funding? How to get to ‘Yes’
As a software founder, one of the most critical moments you’ll face is trying to secure software startup funding. Whether you’re a startup or growth-stage company, raising capital is very often a pivotal part of your business growth. Having worked on over 200 innovative software products in the last 15... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
Why Shipping a Minimum Lovable Product > Perfect Code
Perfection is the enemy of good. I know it’s a cliche, but it’s a cliche for a reason — this one is true. For our purposes, if you’re a software startup founder (or the head of engineering in an enterprise software company), you’re probably all-too-familiar with the constant tug-of-war between... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
Why a Product Owner Should Be Your First In-House Hire
When you’re an early-stage software startup, making your first in-house hire can feel like a pivotal moment… because it is one! We get this question allll the time: “Help! Who should my first in-house hire be?! And that’s for good reason; there’s a lot on the line — product vision,... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
Strategies for Balancing Technical Debt and New Feature Development
If you lead engineering or software development within your enterprise, you know that you walk a shaky tightrope between maintaining your existing systems and pushing forward with new innovations. Balancing technical debt and new feature development is no easy feat — sure, you have to service technical debt, but you... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
The founder’s journey with Brenda Stoner
We’re doing something a little different this month. Instead of a normal ENO8 Answers webinar + video, we wanted to switch it up and interview someone with decades of experience building and launching software startups who could speak to all things founder’s journey. I met Brenda Stoner about a decade... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
Why you should be using design thinking to develop digital products
I wish the news coming out of startup-land were better, but unless you’ve pivoted to A.I. in some way, funding is tighter, budgets are shrinking, layoffs are in the news every other week, job searches are taking forever… it’s grim. (Not to mention the fact that too many of those... Read More
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by Jeff Francis
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