The Entrepreneur’s Salary Guide
As an entrepreneur, you take on a lot more risk than your employees, but you might not be getting paid more than many of them. The average salary for an entrepreneur in the United States is likely somewhere between $40,000 and $75,000 per year. But, this number might be a bit misleading.
This week, I did a deep dive into how and how much entrepreneurs actually make.
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Business
10 Web Application Builders for Non-Technical Startup Founders
These web app builders are great options for startup founders who have limited or no coding knowledge. I listed ten here; however, there are a lot more in the wild. Do you have a favorite that’s not listed?
Finding a Business Advisor for Your Startup
When I started my business it was relatively easy for me to pull together a short list of business advisors. I can’t tell you how valuable these experienced mentors have been as I’ve navigated the ups and downs of life as a startup founder. In this guide, I want to share everything I’ve learned about finding and working with a business advisor.
Employees Are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working From Home
“The past year has proved that lots of work can be done from anywhere, sans lengthy commutes on crowded trains or highways.”
Technology
Disasters I've seen in a microservices world
"Suddenly, teams with 20 engineers were maintaining 50 services. That's more than one service per person! The problem with code, in general, is that it rots. Maintaining every service came at a cost."
Using low-code tools to iterate products faster
My latest guest post for the Stack Overflow blog is live. In this one, I talked to several industry experts about using low-code tools to build software faster.
Please fix the AWS Free Tier before somebody gets hurt
"Even highly experienced engineers struggle with “bills heard round the world”, but at least they’re usually doing it on company credit cards. Students trying to break into the cloud have no financial buffer, and shouldn’t be penalized for learning."
How Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
While the legal and professional concerns Replit raised might be legitimate, it's feels petty to go after a former intern for building an open-source toy project.
Leadership
People Aren't Wired to do Nothing
“The mind is designed to engage with the world. Even when we are by ourselves, our focus usually is on the outside world. And without training in meditation or thought-control techniques, which still are difficult, most people would prefer to engage in external activities.”
Managing Up - Lessons From Scaling Teams at Credit Karma and Lyft
"Mid-career professionals struggle with upward management because it requires a fundamental mindset shift in how you approach your relationship with your manager and other leaders. Successful upward-managers have a finely honed sense of empathy and prioritize helping their leaders achieve their goals first."
What Do Workers Want?
“If you look at the survey data, you see very clearly there’s a huge variety of preferences over how many days people want to work from home. Around 27% of people basically say they never want to work from home ever again.”