At my weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) newsletter - I share my thoughts as a CTO, which some may consider insightful and practical startup advice. Some of the topics that I like writing about: building SaaS products, growing teams, scaling technology and in general being a good founder and a decent person.
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Co-founder & CTO @ mindnow AG ๐ Zรผrich
Partner at mind ventures GmbHI grow teams, build products and solve problems โ occasionally a computer is involved.
Startup Founders Guide
๐ So you want to be a founder? This series was made for aspiring entrepreneurs and people who are looking to go from early-stage startup to late-stage business. I've helped companies release multitudes of products and here are some proven guides that will help you turn your idea into MVP, find your first customers, grow your business and become a unicorn.
๐งฌ Becoming a Real Business: Accounting, Taxes, and Automation
13 min read
๐ป How to build a community around your SaaS
11 min read
๐ก Getting your Idea to the MVP
11 min read
๐ฐ How to sell your SaaS to Enterprise Customers
13 min read
๐งฉ Dealing with complexity
15 min read
๐ค How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup
13 min read
Technical Manager Guide
๐โ Scaling your team is hard. Finding the right talent and making sure they stay is a challenge. I have experience growing from zero to multiple teams working seamlessly with one another. It wasn't easy. This series was made for management and tech leads to help you grow by empowering & enabling your employees.
๐ป Embracing Hacker Culture
9 min read
๐โโ๏ธ Self-Organizing Teams
7 min read
๐ธ๏ธ How to build remote teams properly
12 min read
๐คน๐ผโโ๏ธ Managing technical debt at an agile company
9 min read
โฑ๏ธ How to run efficient meetings with engineers
6 min read
๐ฅ Helping your Interns / Juniors grow
9 min read
๐ฆธโโ๏ธ Lessons learned from becoming CTO of a small startup
10 min read
Latest Newsletter Issues
๐ I like writing. Each week, I share some reflections about things I've been pondering, as well as the daily struggles of a CTO. Might be interesting for you, so subscribe.
๐ฌ Building a side-project
5 min read
๐ Promotion-based development
5 min read
โ๏ธ Being an Amateur
5 min read
๐ The Toxic Grind
5 min read
๐ย We’ll add it to the backlog
3 min read
๐ฏ What does a Product Owner do all day?
2 min read
๐ Every app has its skeletons
3 min read
ย ๐ญย Owning up to your mistakes
4 min read
๐ฅ The unfair advantage
5 min read
โ๏ธ So what does SLA really mean?
4 min read
๐ฅ Battling daily procrastination
2 min read
๐ฅ Do things, tell people
5 min read
โณ Moving Forward in times of uncertainty
5 min read
About me
๐ฅ The past decade I've been leading development in one role or the other. Currently, I'm a co-founder and CTO at a swiss digital agency. Established in 2018, growing it since then to 60 employees with a sustainable profit and solid development. The result is a well-structured and oiled innovation machine that is still building products of any size. We've built neobanks, ecommerce projects, automation tools and even tightly-integrated SaaS ecosystems.
๐ During the past 15 years, I've had the privilege to launch dozens of different products for different industries - as a software developer, architect, team lead and eventually CTO. I've worked with many startups and released several open-source libraries.
๐ง As a side-hustle, I consult. Nowadays my expertise lies in building proper development processes as well as helping early-/mid-stage startups grow their products. I've done this all my life so I've gotten pretty good at it. So instead of coding, I'm focusing more on the big picture stuff and managing chaos inside of it โ making sure the whole engine works as efficiently as possible.
Get yourself a CTO
๐ ๏ธ Fractional CTO or CTO On-Demand โ I work closely with your team with multiple check-ins during the week to make sure we deliver a solid product. My goal here is to help you build a development environment where your team thrives and focuses on building amazing products without too much supervision.
๐ฆบ CTO as a Service โ I will be available to you as a mental sparring partner to bounce ideas and discuss your technology needs. As an external consultant, I will help guide your product development through your hands. I will share my experience and show you the necessary steps to tackle the current situation.
๐ Health Check โ An intensive one-day workshop to evaluate your current technology processes, development team performance, and possible improvements. I will help you find low-hanging fruits to improve your team, code, or product. This service is also suitable for due diligence before acquisition/investment or internal audit by the parent company. It can take more than one-day for companies with 100+ people.
Consulting
๐จโ๐ป One-on-One โ I can consult your company and help you with a specific problem youโre facing. You can send me your questions, and weโll organize a 1- or 2-hour online session (or more if necessary) to go through the issues. I have the most experience in:
- Solving technical debt. Once you've grown too fast, and achieved success, it's time to fix those corners you cut.
- Scaling teams correctly without chaos in processes. Onboarding new hires and making sure they stay for the long run.
- Solving efficiency bottlenecks. I can help you bring underperforming teams to success.
- Setting up proper procedures so team members can code efficiently.
- And a lot of other problems that I have encountered and solved over the years.
Let me know your concrete situation, and Iโm sure weโll find a solution. I will be glad to get to know you.