When we start a project at Build Online, we start with something called a Product discovery.  We insist that we kick off any new project with an all day, in person meeting (we usually fly to where our clients are located) and then we spend the next three weeks prototyping

I like to think of myself as a minimalist. I wear the same thing almost all the time. I try not to collect stuff, and I follow a lot of minimalist blogs and YouTube channels. But that’s not the kind of minimalism I'm talking about when it comes to

Years ago, I tried to start an agency and I failed miserably.  There were many reasons I failed, but easily the biggest one was: I didn't know how to price my work. I'm so ashamed to say this, but I was barely charging anything above what I was paying my

One of my favorite movies of all time is Moneyball—the 2011 film where Brad Pitt played an executive for the Oakland A's trying to turn his team around using unconventional and scientific thinking. It's based off of a book by Micheal Lewis (who also wrote the Big Short and

Short answer: you may want to reconsider the cost of hiring an in-house development team because in-house developers come with hidden costs that outside contractors don’t have. Disclosure: Not an impartial observer Full disclosure, I am part owner of a development agency that specializes in helping companies do web

At Build Online, our dev team is 100% remote, with developers in the United States, a team and office in Uruguay and one lone rockstar in Romania.  We love remote teams, but we’ve also experienced the dark side.  I’ve personally lost thousands of dollars and precious time by