I come across many businesses that are not grounded in basic high level architecture and design goals.  Basically, they simply leap from features to building stuff, most often this happens because everyone is in a mad rush to just get something working as[…]

If I tell you that you can purchase a brand new iPhone for $5, what do you think?  Yet if I tell you that you can hire an outsourced developer for $10 / hour, somehow we set aside our dad’s advice that “nothing is[…]

One of the most important product management concepts is getting to market sooner rather than later with the Minimally Valuable Product (MVP) and iterating or pivoting as you gather feedback and learn, especially if you are building new, innovative products.  This is simply[…]

A few years ago, I asked an experienced, technically-savvy friend to look at the product that we were building and objectively let me know his thoughts.  He quickly pointed out that while he was initially impressed with the array of features and power,[…]

I’ve written a few posts about PCI security.  I get quite a few questions about the cost of building and managing a PCI environment.  In a nutshell, it is expensive.  Below, I’ll outline the expenses that I am familiar with as it relates[…]

I mentioned in my Securing a Cloud Based Platform post that we embarked upon an effort to build a PCI compliant security program; we really needed to improve upon several areas: We needed to improve our documentation We needed to modify existing or[…]

When I’m building business platforms, security is a considerable issue.  Security is definitely one of the technology issues that can get extremely expensive, timing consuming and complicated.  Like so many business decisions, security solution are investments that need to be within the maturity[…]

Yikes, a very long time has passed since my last post, I guess this is what happens when you start a company. Nearly every train ride I think, I should write something because I enjoyed doing this last year. It also got me[…]

At the forest floor, young seedling all look the same and struggle to get sun light. I’m starting to see more Venture Capitalist move down the time line and wait for opportunities with more mature entrepreneurs.