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How to explain your tech debt to your investors

How to explain your tech debt to your investors

Learn how to explain technical debt to investors effectively. This guide simplifies its impact on growth and strategies to manage it, helping you enhance company value and align business goals.

Stop Coding, Start Leading: Shifting dynamics for startup CEOs

Stop Coding, Start Leading: Shifting dynamics for startup CEOs

Once their team starts to grow, technical founders must shift from coding to leading. They often wrongly believe they can build features more quickly independently rather than collaborating with the team.

Embracing brownfield projects & legacy code in SaaS

Embracing brownfield projects & legacy code in SaaS

Balancing innovation with stability is key in managing SaaS legacy code. You explore phased implementations, leveraging existing assets, and continuous learning to maximize legacy code potential. Ideal for tech leads and founders.

Understanding and managing technical debt and legacy code: a guide for founders

Understanding and managing technical debt and legacy code: a guide for founders

Discover effective strategies for managing technical debt and legacy code in software development. This comprehensive guide for founders explores the causes, impacts, and solutions to maintain sustainable growth and high-quality code.

Leading with fear: these leadership mistakes will break your startup

Leading with fear: these leadership mistakes will break your startup

We’ll discuss some critical, non-technical challenges in leadership, including the impacts of ego and lack of self-awareness, and learn strategies to create a positive and productive work environment. Fear-driven leadership will break most startups.

Floating team members & priorities

Floating team members & priorities

In SaaS, shifting priorities and changing teams cause stress. Stable teams focus priorities but may lack roles, leaving floating members to juggle demands. A one-person service team can offer clarity, but careful prioritization and team restructuring are vital.

The secret sauce to high-performing teams: leadership, trust, and autonomy

The secret sauce to high-performing teams: leadership, trust, and autonomy

Empowering teams in modern workspaces means shifting from traditional management to a trust-based, autonomous culture. This approach enhances performance, especially remotely, by emphasizing purpose before results and fostering open communication and accountability.

PHP lied to me

PHP lied to me

We discuss the challenges of using PHPStan at its strictest level for type checking, particularly with 'mixed' types. It explores solutions like using strval() and creating custom functions, but ultimately, the author opts to lower PHPStan's strictness due to complexity, ending with mixed feelings.

Never hire senior developers*

Never hire senior developers*

When do SaaS startup founders know it's the right time to hire junior developers? And why is always hiring senior developers, not a good idea?

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