The Starter League UX Design: Top Visual Design Techniques and Research Methods
It’s Week #2 of the UX Design class I’m taking at The Starter League. After covering UX design heuristics last week, we dove right into these three topics…
StartupBus and a Battle Royale for Chicago’s Top Talent
Word on the street is that Chicago is becoming one of the best places to conceive, build, and launch an incredible startup…
The Big Marketing Mistakes You Need to Quit Making
Building your marketing strategy and using it to shape your digital identity means making an endless amount of decisions…
Don’t Know How to Market Your Startup? Here is a 7-Step Plan to Get You Started
It’s not just large companies that need marketing plans; your startup needs one, too…
5 Tips for Bootstrapping Your Startup’s Promotional Video
It’s not easy for a young company to show off its personality. Founders typically don’t have a lot of visibility (most people aren’t huge dorks like me who have amassed thousands of twitter followers), and the company’s culture can’t always be expressed through the product itself. Of all the channels a startup can use to…
How Do You Deal With Obstacles While Building A Business?
Every move seemed like a bad one, every choice a wrong one. In chess, they call this zugzwang. In entrepreneurship, they call this Tuesday… or Monday or Thursday or Saturday….
The Starter League: An Intro to UX Design
If you aren’t already familiar with it, Starter League is a rad school currently based out of Chicago that teaches: HTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, visual design, and UX design…
Put Down That Ramen! Top 10 Reasons Entrepreneurs Need to Stay Healthy
With a busy work schedule, “I don’t have time” is a tempting response to the things we know we should be doing…
Love it or Hate it, Tech Buzz Words Are Here to Stay
Big Data, Growth Hacker, The Cloud & Lean Startup – these are the four most overused tech buzz words used in the starter community…
Be Wary of Seductive Productivity Blogs
De-clutter. Turn it off. Unsubscribe. Calm down and focus on the real work…