Extending Your Development Team
How to Scale an Engineering Team on a Startup Budget For a growing startup, every new technical hire competes for the same finite budget. You may need more engineering capacity to keep the roadmap moving. At the same time, you may need an engineering leader within your core team, product capability, customer-facing technical expertise or[…]
Knowing how to evaluate and choose a remote development partner involves more than comparing technical skills and day rates. You also need to understand how the developers will work with your team, who controls delivery decisions, which security practices apply, how intellectual property is handled and what happens if the fit is not right. Remote[…]
Your production environment does not care that your company only has a few engineers. It can still fail at 2:00 a.m. A third-party dependency can still take down checkout. A bad deployment can still affect every customer at once. And when it does, your team will discover whether it has an incident process or just[…]
I had a conversation recently with one of our AI/ML engineers at Tekkon, and a few things he said stopped me in my tracks. The Tekkie started getting into AI in 2015. There was no formal AI schooling in Nepal at the time, so he taught himself through Coursera and Udemy, enrolled in one of[…]
A conversation with Joel Duckworth, CTO at Crewmojo The Setup Crewmojo (based in Sydney) is a performance management platform built by a small, tight engineering team. Like most startup CTOs, Joel was being pulled in two directions at once: writing code to ship features, and doing the architectural thinking the business actually needed him for.[…]
New Free Guide – A Founder’s Guide to Working with Remote Developers! Hiring remote developers can feel risky – especially if you’ve been burnt before. Maybe you worked with a freelancer who disappeared, or struggled to get visibility into the process. Maybe things just didn’t click. But here’s the truth: remote isn’t risky when it’s[…]
How do you build a high-growth company that doesn’t burn people out? In episode 5 of the Startup Today podcast, Flic Manning shares the lived reality of running ventures while managing chronic illness and invisible disability – and shows why inclusion, psychological safety and founder well-being are strategic advantages, not “nice-to-haves”. We compare Silicon Valley[…]
In Episode 4 of Startup Today, we were joined by organisational architect and delivery expert Erin Clark to dive deep into the art of communicating with developers, why the Waterfall model still has a place in modern delivery, and how purpose-driven products like Stories Unseen come to life. You can also catch the episode on[…]
As AI tools become more accessible and powerful, expectations for developers are shifting – sometimes in useful ways, and sometimes in ways that distract from what actually matters. I recently ran a survey on LinkedIn and Facebook to gather community insights to better understand what founders and tech leads expect from modern devs in the[…]
In Episode 3 of Startup Today, host Matt Ainsworth sits down with Carl Maiorana – digital-transformation specialist, founder of 5Y, and former co-founder of No Code Odyssey – to unpack how modern founders can harness no-code platforms and AI to reduce time-to-market and ship with confidence. Carl draws on 20+ years in financial services, real[…]
