Many have asked me why I rejected the academic career that I had and went forward with my crazy coconut-filled freelance thing. I had spent two 6-month periods at the…
There are two main approaches to doing your freelance business. Location-based in the physical environment (offline) or online purely digitally. By online freelancing, I mean the type of work that…
There are many ways to find paying customers for your freelance business. Some depend on what type of work you do as a freelancer, others work out pretty well regardless…
Starting your own business is always hard. Everybody starts from the bottom. There has to be an idea of what to sell, to whom to sell, how to find them,…
80% of small businesses survive the first year, but only 50% see their fifth anniversary, according to this article in Forbes. The article lists five common reasons why any kind…
We software developers are a strange breed of man. We, the instantiations of homo technologicus, love technology. Sometimes all too much! I remember when I started as a 22-year old…
CTO-as-a-Service is something rather new and you could easily say it is a niche industry. In this article, I explain my perspective on what it is and how I manage…