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After a decade leading software engineering teams at venture-funded startups, I started…
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SEO Keyword Opportunities in Developer Marketing
SEO Keyword Opportunities in Developer Marketing
We recently started supporting our clients at Draft.dev with keyword research which, given our unique position, has…
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How Draft.dev Works with Clients
How Draft.dev Works with Clients
Since I started Draft.dev, our team and the number of clients we work with has grown a lot.
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Alternatives to Basecamp for Project Management
Alternatives to Basecamp for Project Management
Basecamp has recently come under fire for changes the founders implemented including the prohibition of societal and…
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How Do Open Source Companies Make Money?
How Do Open Source Companies Make Money?
Most open source projects aren’t started for money. Software developers who write open source software rarely care to…
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The Management Books That Helped Shape My Career
The Management Books That Helped Shape My Career
Being a good manager requires a wide range of skills that often take years to build. A great manager needs to be…
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What it's Really Like Working for a Startup
What it's Really Like Working for a Startup
Originally published on my personal blog. After almost ten years working for startups, I’ve seen some pretty wild…
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Writing Technical Content That People Want to Read
Writing Technical Content That People Want to Read
I recently spoke to the CTO Craft community about building a software engineering team blog. Towards the end, we got…
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The Best DevOps Blogs
The Best DevOps Blogs
DevOps is a term that has become more and more popular in job postings and with those looking to break into the…
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The Best Ruby Blogs
The Best Ruby Blogs
Ruby is a popular language used for building full-stack and backend web applications, so I set out to find the 22 best…
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Two years ago, I read The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware. It was literally the most life-changing book I've ever read. That year, I…
Two years ago, I read The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware. It was literally the most life-changing book I've ever read. That year, I…
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The most rewarding things I’ve done have been the hardest things: Starting a business, buying a business, doubling every 3 months, cutting my staff…
The most rewarding things I’ve done have been the hardest things: Starting a business, buying a business, doubling every 3 months, cutting my staff…
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Saying no to prospects is one of the most powerful things you can do. It opens you up to better clients and projects. Sell from a place of gratitude…
Saying no to prospects is one of the most powerful things you can do. It opens you up to better clients and projects. Sell from a place of gratitude…
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Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Fullstack Academy
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Global Student Entrepreneur Awards Regional Finalist
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Fairview Business Plan Competition Runner Up
Knoxville Chamber of Commerce
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Your competitors' "VS." pages might be telling ChatGPT more than your website is, and that's a huge problem. Content feeds the answers that LLMs…
Your competitors' "VS." pages might be telling ChatGPT more than your website is, and that's a huge problem. Content feeds the answers that LLMs…
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One of the cool things about the way we’ve architected Hypertune is that you never reference experiments directly in your code. Instead, you create…
One of the cool things about the way we’ve architected Hypertune is that you never reference experiments directly in your code. Instead, you create…
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Had a great time at Snowflake World Tour Chicago earlier this week! ❄️ Really enjoyed all the conversations with everyone who stopped by the…
Had a great time at Snowflake World Tour Chicago earlier this week! ❄️ Really enjoyed all the conversations with everyone who stopped by the…
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Learning to say "no" is one of the most important lessons founders sitting in the sales seat can learn. I spoke to John Doherty about this earlier…
Learning to say "no" is one of the most important lessons founders sitting in the sales seat can learn. I spoke to John Doherty about this earlier…
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It’s finally clicking for a lot of folks. Software teams are making the call on a solution that works in their daily workflow. Outcomes with Sentry vs data collection witb others. Key Results - 80% faster page loads – Improved a key page from 50s → under 10s - 95% faster debugging – Hours → minutes, backend issues resolved up to 20x faster - 3 tools consolidated into 1 – Unified visibility for errors and performance https://lnkd.in/gfE9g9sk
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July data shows a spike in cart abandonment across verticals and it’s not due to price hikes. It’s friction. Here are the top killers right now: 1. No guest checkout 2. No auto-apply for discount codes 3. Unclear shipping timelines (or hidden fees) 4. Forced account creation 5. Payment methods not optimized for mobile The brands fixing these are recovering up to 18–25% more abandoned carts on average. Clean checkouts win checkouts.
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