I apply Lean-Agile knowledge and tools to execute and release value.
I was reading today the great article about the unknown aspects of REST and I thought that it’s finally time to talk, or in my case write more about the future of the APIs, but first let me invite you to the magical world of Stephen King’s novel The Wind Through the Keyhole and in the precise moment when the Ka-tet are hiding from the Starkblast.
Hello,I will be out of the office from 2/20 thru 3/8 – returning to my desk on 3/9.If you have questions about life, ask Deep Thought.If you have an emergency, dial 0118-911-881-911-119-7253. (yes, really) If you wish to speak to an operator say ‘zero’. (In Bulgarian)If you know the whereabouts of known terrorists, contact Jeff…
I still remember the good ol’ times where I almost convince an entire company to allow their > 500 employees to contribute to an opensource or a free software project at least 1 hour a month. The journey was hard. I prepared a strategy and facilitated the discussion, and spend numerous hours taking to smart…
I have started a small campaign today and I am so happy to see it working – 138 engagements so far and a few donations. There is no way to see the donations, but I can see more “I have donated” tweets in the target languages. Please retweet and take action :) Feeling like spending…
I missed a step in my previous article on purpose. I was planning to write a separate article about that and here it is. When I was completing my UX training by Chris Nodder I liked a technique called “Ideation” and I have decided to hack it and to use it for my own purposes…
Prototyping is part of my work. I don’t trust product owners or analysts that do not prototype ideas and share them with the customer or another stakeholder. I will tell you more now about my strategy and I hope it can be useful for you. I have grown the ability to listen, remember and prototype…
There are tens of thousands of API’s available. More to come. Most of the companies though, have troubles engaging developers to use them. So I have decided to share a few thoughts and ideas on how you can do that, based on my experience. Design your API well Nobody likes powerful, but not developer-friendly APIs.…
Let’s imagine you want to understand how happy your customers are with your product. According to the marketers there are several methods to do that, like NPS or Temper, but all of them require interaction with the customer. Let’s be honest, most of the time people don’t want to answer stupid questions like “How do…
This morning I was surprised by Google Drive. They offered me to use voice for some basic commands, instead of selecting them or using a shortcut (in my case). A few months ago I created an experiment by combining the shiny SoHo Interface with a few good working opensource javascript implementations for voice and gesture…
I held my second growth hacking workshop for StartupYard a few days ago and I did a small research – I was looking for a joke to use as an icebreaker at the start of the workshop. So I was trying to find out some funny growth hacking resources using Google, but then I realized,…
A few days ago I’ve attended the launch of SohoXI – Hook and Loop’s latest product that aims to change the look and feel of the Enterprise applications forever. I am close to believing that and not only because I work for the same company as they do. They have delivered extremely revolutionary UI in…
I wrote an article on Linkedin about the 3 interesting startups from Europe. Click here to read it.
I met Margarit a year ago at one of the events I am organizing – Bulgaria Web summit. He was invited as the official photographer. It turned out that he was good at that, but he is also a startup guy and an entrepreneur as well. A few days ago he asked me if I…
A week ago I got an email from a fellow Bulgarian, Antonio Stoilkov, asking if I could help to spread the word about a very great Java Script framework he developed in the last 2 years. He asked me to push it to Product Hunt, because I have submitted similar products in the past. So…
Yesterday I had a growth hacking workshop for Startup Yard accelerator’s startups. Actually It was held in the Node5’s open space and I’ve noticed some other folks eavesdropping and even occasionally shaking heads in agreement. I was there like 30 min earlier and I was a bit nervous, because I prepared the slides (as usually)…