by Shweta | Feb 25, 2025 | Small Business, Blog, Startups
Imagine hiring a skilled engineer to develop embedded firmware for your latest IoT sensor. They dive into the project, complete the firmware in two months, and then… what? For the remaining ten months of the year, their workload diminishes, but their...
by Nicole Cormier | May 16, 2023 | Small Business, Blog, Startups
I got a call from an engineering friend of mine. He just moved to a new city for a new job. He writes firmware for a small company. Reason for the call? He is bored and wondered if we had any projects he could work on. Good engineers love their jobs and hate just...
by Nicole Cormier | Mar 11, 2023 | Blog, Startups
Prototype, MVP (Minimally Viable Product) and PoC (Proof of Concept) often get lumped together as one thing. This is understandable because each is an early version of a product; however, that is about all they have in common. Understanding this difference is...
by Nicole Cormier | Mar 9, 2022 | Small Business, Blog, Startups, Investors
The most common inquiry we get from startups is, “when do I use a company versus a contractor versus an employee?” Our research has concluded that getting this question right correlates with startup success, and getting it wrong often leads to startup...
by Nicole Cormier | Mar 4, 2022 | Small Business, Blog, Startups
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any direction will do.” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland We are often brought in to help with troubled product development projects that are not progressing as expected. You might expect that the reason...
by Nicole Cormier | Feb 17, 2022 | Small Business, Blog, Startups
A Requirements Document (RD) is the first step to creating a great product. Because it is the first step, an RD has the greatest leverage of all product development activities. A small error in the direction at this stage can make a big difference in where the product...
