by Bertrams Lukstins | Apr 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
Being a freelancer is hard: you must balance your client work with finding new clients and optimizing how much you charge. It can also be tempting to use your skills for some of your personal projects, which might bring in revenue later but won’t pay the bills right...
by Bertrams Lukstins | Mar 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Like many companies founded in the past years, Monitup started with a need and a problem arising from Covid. The founder, Faruk Durak, was suddenly doing his development work from his home in Istanbul, so the need for time tracking was evident, and so he began...
by Bertrams Lukstins | Feb 23, 2022 | Marketing
Jump to example demos: GrafanaHockeyStackSwetrix Analytics software is a great SaaS business to run: you take existing data, aggregate it, or perhaps add a bit of your processing and a pretty UI. The value provided to the end-user is enormous, so you can charge a...
by Bertrams Lukstins | Feb 23, 2022 | Agile, Management Tips, Marketing
Marketing, in its essence, is wasteful. Teams invest time and money on activities to make revenue or achieve other traction-related goals. So to fix the wasteful nature of marketing, all we should do is measure the effects of our campaigns, right? The roughly $3...
by Bertrams Lukstins | Aug 23, 2021 | 1:1 Meetings
1:1 meetings between an engineering manager and a developer is a well-established practice in software engineering. What we don’t think of often, however, is the frequency of these meetings. It’s widespread for engineering teams to select a meeting cycle...
