I come across many people that want to start a business of their own, but have trouble finding the right startup idea. Although in some cases I suspect the phrase: “I am an entrepreneur waiting for a good idea to come along” actually means “I like the safety of my job, I have my mortgage,… Read more →
Over the past few months at StarterSquad we’ve been working hard on our Startup Development as a Service platform, Capacitor. There, we allow teams to evolve and clients to book capacity with teams online. Of course, we could not miss the opportunity for all sorts of interesting experiments on this project. Some we deemed too risky to implement… Read more →
This post was co-authored by Iwein Fuld, Founder of Capacitor, the workplace where companies develop their apps with the help of distributed teams. Software development is more about communication between humans than anything else. A successful delivery of a piece of software is, more than anything else, a sign that multiple people came to a… Read more →
The big picture Last month, we kicked off the StarterSquad Launchlab as our laboratory for building internet startups. Up until then our remote development teams only worked for external customers building technological innovations. With cases like Vandebron and Zorgdomein we have proven our technical execution power. Our business model, which revolves around the sale of… Read more →
This post was written by Iwein Fuld, Founder of Capacitor, the workplace where companies develop their apps with the help of distributed teams. Sign up for Capacitor today and we’ll double your credits (up to €500) to hire a team for your project! We’ve been running StarterSquad for almost two years now (wow!) and a lot… Read more →
As we are serious about Startups and Tech Development there was no doubt that we had to travel to Dublin this year for the Web Summit 2014. Last year we experienced the vibe, inspiring speakers and great networking opportunities. This year it was even more overwhelming. With 20,000 visitors, the event has grown to achieve… Read more →
When you write about Startup Failure like Alain LeLoux did in his last blogpost you are almost obliged to give some tips to avoid these failures as well. The insight into the sources of failure already provides some direction for finding possible measure to reduce failure risk. But, Alain also was so kind to provide us… Read more →
This top-10 is derived from my personal experience, directly by coaching more than 100 startups and indirectly through my involvement in 300 other startups over the last decade. Underestimate timelines before the company is making profit (underestimating the marketing & roll-out costs) Overestimating the market size Funding problems and cash flow problems Problems with customer… Read more →
As of September this year, SwipeGuide, a StarterSquad project, entered the Pressure Cooker program at Startup Incubator Utrecht Inc in the Netherlands. SwipeGuide is a platform that enables you to create, share and use visual step-by-step instructions on mobile devices. You can check out www.swipeguide.co to learn more about the startup. In this blogpost, I… Read more →
In continuation to our last post on remote collaboration patterns, let’s take a look on some key collaboration patterns for collocated teams which are helping many teams worldwide. How can I help you? After working with many Agile projects, I realised that collaboration has deeper meaning in a widely used phrase, “How can I help… Read more →
AngularJS + RequireJS 
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