Written by the Skiplist Team This article is all about exploring how your company might begin an emerging tech project. …

For some waking up early and working out feels right. For others maybe it is a midday stroll around the neighborhood. Everyone has a preference. There is no right or wrong answer. The main point is to have a strong foundation of how your day will be structured. …

Sales is a numbers game and a tough game. Most of the time we are getting told no or even worse getting nothing back. “Hello? Is it me you’re looking for?” Nope. Searching for potential customers is time-consuming. Painful. Heartbreaking. So, when you do get someone interested in having a…

In 1998, according to the Associated Press, our average attention span was around 12 minutes. A decade later, attention spans dropped by 50% to 5–6 minutes. I’ll bet they are about five seconds today. There are many factors for the dramatic drop in these statistics. Social media is a huge…

When you first set your mindset to help your customers as I discussed in Sales Principle #1, then you are on a journey to immense success. To make the journey more enjoyable and sales less of a grind, I firmly believe being authentic and genuine are essential. If you are…

Information technology expenditure worldwide is currently at 3.7 trillion dollars, with growth that outpaces the GDP growth rate of many nations [¹]. Digital transformation for businesses is targeted to hit 2.2 trillion dollars by 2022 [²]. It has a daily impact on most, if not all lives, in all developed…

The only constant you should hold in life is change. If you hold change as a constant, you will learn to adapt and manage life’s complexities well. Your software should reflect this principle and allow itself to evolve and adapt. It’s essential to keep things simple while also ensuring that…

Check out my original post on why I decided to start writing about “Sales Principles.” I’ve heard many definitions of what is sales, but Mark Cuban put it best, “Selling is not convincing. Selling is helping.” It is unfortunate that “sales” is often associated negatively. I’ll admit sales rightfully gets…

Complexity in any system is what creates defects. Developers are easily able to reason about a single unit of code or even sometimes, a simple component. If that is the case, then why are defects understood to be part of software development? There are two causes of this: intricate integration…