When’s the Right Time to Join a Startup? (via Dice News in Tech) Imagine for a moment that you’re among the most fortunate people in the world: Four promising startups have offered you a job, each company at a different stage of its evolution. You have to choose one as the next step in your […]

‘DIY’ Hardware Offers New Mobile Dev Opportunities (via Dice News in Tech) For Christmas, my daughter gave me a couple of Digispark boards. These little, relatively Arduino-compatible, ATtiny85 micro-controller, USB-equipped wonders are programmed from a notebook and will be the basis for a couple of my new projects. I also… (more…)

Hot 2014 StartUps (via http://www.jobcrusher.com) Every year investors and tech insiders look to Silicon Valley, Cupertino and other areas of innovation in order to identify the hottest startups that are sure to make waves in the coming year. If you have money to invest, if you want to model your own… (more…)

Can Outsourcing Make You More ‘Agile’? (via InformationWeek) Commentary Agile software development has made its way into complex enterprise environments, but keeping the process in-house may be too expensive. Agile development has been around for a long time, but it has become hot only in recent years. Early… (more…)

How to whip a struggling sales team into shape, startup-style (via Pando Daily) By Timo Rein On January 10, 2014 In the 1992 movie adaptation of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” Alec Baldwin gives an oft-quoted speech to his real estate agents. I’ve heard no fewer than ten accounts of sales, PR, and marketing people having had […]