and it's like "You're almost making half of what I make." But when you think about it as a business income stream, suddenly if I have to hire one developer even just part time, there goes almost all that money. That's not even enough to hire a developer part-time, somebody who would be really skilled enough to work on Actual. And so money from a business perspective, having to set aside $20,000 to invest in development for a couple months - if you're a business and you can't afford that, that's a huge problem. But 20k for a personal -- you know, if I'm about to buy something for 20k, I agonize over that for week. I hate buying cars, because they are so freakin' expensive. But 20k in business money is nothing, right? I mean, for most businesses, that shouldn't be anything, if you're doing it right. So 3k - a lot of people were like "Dude, you're giving up $3,000 a month." To me, it's just like, you don't understand the burden, because I was lonely, and the next thing I really needed to do is either find a co-founder, which I couldn't do, or hire somebody else to help development. Like, properly hire; don't outsource some cheap labor. Properly hire somebody to help development. And $3,000 a month is not anywhere close to being able to hire somebody out. So you're kind of stuck in this awkward middle phase, which I think happens with bootstrapping, right? You've got to really bear through that awkward phase where you make enough money, to get to the point where you can start hiring out.

I started Trailblazer GmbH 4 years ago with my relocation from Australia back to Europe. One of our consulting clients is the central police department of a German state that has kept me busy for more than three years now.

ActiveInteraction plays nicely with Rails. You can use interactions to handle your business logic instead of models or controllers.

the study of innovation shows that everything hinges on the hard work of taking a promising idea and making it work — technically, legally, financially, culturally, ecologically. Constraints are great enablers of innovation.

But there’s a downside to the hackathon hype, and our research on designing workplace projects for innovation and learning reveals why. Innovation is usually a lurching journey of discovery and problem solving. Innovation is an iterative, often slow-moving process that requires patience and discipline. Hackathons, with their feverish pace, lack of parameters and winner-take-all culture, discourage this process. We could find few examples of hackathons that have directly led to market success.

what if projects were designed to combine a hacking mindset with rigorous examination of the data and experience they glean? This would reward smart failures that reveal new insights and equip leaders with the information needed to rescale, pivot or axe their projects.

Sigo convencido de que Lean Startup y las ideas, herramientas y metodologías que le rodean como Customer Development, Business Model Design, Lean UX o Effectuation son la mejor vía para crear una empresa. Pero la interacción con mis lectores y con los alumnos de mis cursos me ha hecho ver que hay problemas para llevar a la práctica estas ideas.