Thats mrsteveheyes to you.
Web Developer, Coder, Entrepreneur, Musical Explorer, Youth Work Volunteer, Christian and Amateur Photographer.
Technical Director of Studio Bonito Ltd and co creator of Happie Feedback
When it’s convenient
But you don’t have the sense
No you don’t have the sense
To tie your tangled tongue
Instead you’re slashing through the mud"
19th May 2011
Stop Asking Developers If Something is Possible.
Because developers know and believe that everything is possible. Yes, any feautre can be done, any request can be met — but that’s not the right question. The right question is:
How hard would it be?
"Horia Dragomir - http://horia.me/stop-asking-developers-if-something-is-possib
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If you think in terms of ten years; plant a tree."
Popular culture has created the myth that start-ups are cheap—cheaper than regular businesses anyway. This can be true for designers and developers who band together and use their own labour in the form of sweat equity. However if you don’t have the necessary skills and connections yourself, you have to hire in talent and that isn’t going to be cheap. Good products take time and effort after all.
A competent freelancer will typically cost you around £8k per month—a good agency staffer doubly so. With these rates in mind, an early prototype taking two people a couple of months could cost in the region of £30-60k. For a fully fleshed out beta version, you’d probably want a team of three or four people working on it over a four to six month period. Plugging those figures in you’re looking at anything from £100-350k before you’ve even launched. Suddenly this starts to feel less like a cottage industry and more like a real business.
Having spoken to several successful investors, these figures seem to stack up. It would seem that most investors expect it to cost around £50k to get your proof of concept and around £250k to get that product to market.
"Instead of committing to lose weight this year or write that book, simply commit to do the work. Five days a week you are going to write, who cares whether a book comes of it or not. Five days a week you’ll walk two miles, or you’ll cut your carbs down to whatever. If you want to be more grateful this year, then break that down into something you can do, and commit to that. Every Thursday you’ll write somebody a thank-you card.
Do you want to be more professional? Commit to shaving every day … and sending your clothes to the dry cleaner once a month. And add to that finish the work you’re supposed to finish. … Don’t commit to an idea, commit to a tangible act you can check off of a list.
Goals are very helpful, and writing them down is even more helpful. But once you set a secret goal, break it down into actionable steps, and make your commitment to take those steps, to DO those things. Goals don’t accomplish anything, it’s all in the work.
"Commit to the Work, not the Goals
I love pretty much everything Don Miller says. So insightful.
(Source: marshillchurch.org)
(Source: relevantmagazine.com)
He followed his own agenda instead of everyone else’s. He also set predetermined limits. He chose twelve (not twelve hundred) whom he trained to carry on in his absence. He stayed with his set of priorities without apology, which means he must have said no a score of times every month. He balanced work and rest, accomplishment and refreshment, never feeling the need to ask permission for spending time in quietness and solitude. He refused to get sidetracked by tempting opportunities that drained energy and time. He was a servant of his father, not a slave of the people. Even though misunderstood, maligned, misquoted, and opposed by numerous enemies and even a few friends, he stayed at it. His simplicity kept him balanced."
