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Don’t Let Too Many Features Ruin Your Next Product

Startup Professionals Musings

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more new business solutions than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes.

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More Features Kill More Startups Than Lack of Money

Startup Professionals Musings

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. But I have some.

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Five Rules to Prevent Startup Project Scope Creep

Startup Professionals Musings

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes.

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Watch Out For This Insidious Startup Project Malady

Startup Professionals Musings

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Feature Creep Turns Leading Edge Into Bleeding

Startup Professionals Musings

This insidious disease kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Changes will be required to every project, so plan for them.