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Some actions can cause success, and some can cause failure. We must emulate the successful behaviors AND avoid the unsuccessful behaviors. Came across this site: http://failory.com/. If you go there, you will find dozens of case studies of failed startups. There are lots of places that tell you how to succeed, but this is the… Read More

I love sports analogies in business, and I am an avid amateur auto racer (bear with me a bit if you are not). One thing I learned early in racing is if you want to go fast you must slow down; which is just a way of saying you must slow down your thinking. You… Read More

Most successful companies do not advertise the fact that their products were developed by Outsourced Product Development (OPD) companies, but many of the more successful ones do it. Have a look at this list: Click HERE

Ran across this website for product management: Click Here Lots of good info on becoming an outstanding Product Manager. Every company, even very small companies, need to be good at product management. This website has a complete list of information on the subject. Well worth the bookmark. Also, take a look at our ROM (Rough… Read More

Surprisingly, it is MURS/LMRS, not LoRa. It’s true that LoRa has some other benefits over MURS/LMRS, namely bandwidth and coexistence, but when it comes to range, especially through ground clutter and hilly terrain, MURS/LMRS will outperform LoRa. If you’re interested in the math: Free Space Path Loss (FSPL) = 20Log((4pi D F)/C) D = distance… Read More

If you’re a large company, managing outsourced product development is a relatively straightforward activity where you’ll have many engineers, processes in place, and experience to guide you. For a small company that has never outsourced product development, it’s not so simple. How do you know you have picked a good company? How much should you… Read More

The True Cost of a Full Time Engineer: Got a call from an engineering friend of mine. He just moved to a new city for a new job. He writes firmware for a small company. Reason for the call? He is bored and wondering if we had any projects he could work on. Good engineers… Read More

The Weather is Perfect for Small Companies and Startups: There is more capital now than ever in history, and the cost of capital is cheap. In the HBR Article (March-April 2017, Strategy in the Age of Superabundant Capital), Michael Ma#startupsnkins, et. al., says: “The combination of the factors leads us to conclude that through 2030… Read More

Keys to spending a lot of money to develop a terrible product: Over the years, we have worked with more than 275 startups and small companies helping them develop technology products. There must, however, be a secret primer out there on how to maximize the cost to develop a terrible product. After much research, we… Read More

Just went through an exercise with a bunch of investors who were trying to determine what to look for in startup. What makes some startups succeed and others fail? Of course, everyone agreed that it was NOT the idea. The general consensus was that is was a functional team that made good decisions, with a… Read More