Manage Your Startups Risks: How to Use Lean Principles Entrepreneurship is all about risk. Building a startup is a risky exercise. But research has shown that most successful entrepreneurs are masters at analyzing and minimizing or avoiding risk. Just like investors, they view entrepreneurship not as a business of taking risks, but as one of mitigating and …
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AngularJS + RequireJS While delivering software projects for startups, we’ve come to love AngularJS. We’ve also come to struggle with clean modularity, both the parts that Angular does really well, and the parts that are somewhat missing. RequireJS does a great job where Angular leaves some things to be desired, but using them together is …
How to Support Lean Startups As we work mostly for Startups we always align our work with the process they face in search of product-market fit. Lean Startup and Customer Development are common practices used by our clients. Our understanding of these practices makes Squads stand out against traditional digital agencies and software developers. We …
Spreading Containers using Docker Docker drew the attention of developer communities to containers. With Docker it’s possible to create and run a new container within seconds. This containerized approach is not new. The idea of containers has been around since the early days of unix with the chroot command. For instance, FreeBSD-based jail or Solaris zones serve …
Alternatives for Working with Elance In late 2012, I started freelancing. Because I don’t like commutes and offices, I decided to work from home and was pointed to Elance. After signing up I got hired to help a startup turn the herd of remote cats they hired into a team. I succeeded in a couple …
Building a Virtual Startup Incubator In 2014, we kicked off the Squads Launchlab as our laboratory for building internet startups. Up until then our remote development teams only worked for external customers building technological innovations. With cases like Vandebron and Zorgdomein we have proven our technical execution power.
A Day In the Life of a Web Developer There are over 4 million software developers currently employed in the United States. That’s a significant portion of the active workforce! That number is only expected to grow.
