Less than 10 years ago one of the first steps in launching your web or mobile app was buying and setting up your own dedicated hardware in a back room or remote server farm. Actual physical boxes you had to order, unpack, plugin, network and monitor in a rack you…

Especially those who can least afford it. For most companies their expense policy is an afterthought. It starts off informally. “Spend as if it’s your own money”. “Use your best judgement”. “Check with me first”. But over time things get more complicated. The team grows. The business gets more sophisticated. The cracks start to appear. 1. Different rules start apply to different people. When you…

With QuickBooks recent testing of an integrated bookkeeping service many accountants & bookkeepers have raised valid concerns about whether the platform they promote is about to compete with them. For me this is a case of history repeating. In 2015 I joined GoDaddy as Director of Product working to help our web developer and designer community successful. …

Today I’m excited to launch Spritz: the world’s most refreshing corporate card. Every company in the world has expenses but no one likes doing them. We’re here to change that. The Spritz corporate card is available to everyone in your company, from your intern to your CEO. It allows everyone…

It’s easy to think all the good startup problems in B2B SAAS have already been solved. In almost any category you can find dozens of companies fighting it out over a (generally) fixed set of customers. …

Talking to customers is a critical factor in building a successful company. It’s never more important than when you’re just getting started and still pre-product/market fit. All of the secondary research in the world won’t tell you how people actually think, how they rank their pain points in comparison to…

In the latest season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Alec Baldwin talks about the Show Business Commission. The Show Business Commission is a shadowy organization that identifies people with “enormous talent and tremendous potential” and yet “don’t really know what do to with it”. They’re shadowy in that they’re…

In late 2009 Kanye West set himself up in a mansion in Hawaii to record one of the greatest albums of all times: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. With artists flying in from around the world ranging from Elton John and Rihanna, to Drake and Justin Vernon of Bon Iver…

Since I was a little kid I’ve always looked for ways to make a buck. In primary school I remember selling lollypops for 50 cents each from a bag of 50 that cost me a few bucks. The day I could legally take a job delivering newspapers at 12 I…