The Tech Therapy Couch: Honor Thyself

From the great outdoors of beautiful, sunny Colorado, we are talking about how to balance honoring your original intention for building your app or software idea with building something people actually want and need. How does one little grasshopper do that, Yoda?

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Video Podcast: VanillaJS, JAMstack and Shenanigans

Raika Technologies is proud to present this episode of The Raika Show, where we talk VanillaJS, JAMstack, and branding and coin a new phrase: NeapolitanJS.

FUNDAMENTALS!

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The Startup Therapy Couch™: Keep going. You got this.

Every entrepreneur I know will describe a time in the building of a new company and new idea where you feel and intuitively know that you are doing all of the right things... But it seems like nothing is happening.

Just because it SEEMS that way, doesn't mean that's true. Just keep going. The difference between an entrepreneur and everyone else is that this is the time the entrepreneur digs in, trusts themselves, and keeps moving forward.

Just keep swimming... swimming... swimming...

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Podcast: Do you really need an Advanced Degree to succeed as a Software Developer?

This week on Incubate This!, in podcast partnership with The Raika Show, Raika Technologies and GotAnAppIdea.com talk about the benefits of advanced education and postulates how much a formal degree matters to be a successful Software Developer.

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The Tech Therapy Couch: Big Ideas... Not Big Data.

When you're getting to the heart of your app or software idea to determine what needs to be in your prototype or MVP, you need to remember that any app that requires a bunch of pre-loaded data in order to provider value will be MUCH more expensive to produce. That's because you don't already have the data from the user's actually using your product, so you have to buy it from someone else.

If you're in that place, you haven't gone far enough into your idea to root out the intrinsic value of it. Create something that users want or need regardless of the resulting statistics and metrics, and you will curate the data over time. THEN you can add that value into your app later, and your users will be thrilled that now they can see what you see.

Brilliant.

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Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality... Really reality?

How many different types of reality are there? What do they all mean? How do you know which one you’re in?

Okay, so that’s a silly question, we’ll grant you… This week Raika is looking at Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality and talking about the state of the technologies and positing whether we’re trying too hard to escape our lives.

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Video Podcast: Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality... Taking us away from Reality?

This week on The Raika Show, we are exploring AR and VR… And how they impact our actual “R”. Technology has the potential to open up our lives and our experience in amazing ways. But only if we use it correctly. Is our addiction to social media, smart phones and “being connected” ultimately what separates us from each other?

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Podcast: Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality... Taking us away from Reality?

This week on The Raika Show, we are exploring the wonder of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality… And discussing the impact of both on our actual Reality. Could this technology be the key to bringing humanity back to actual connectedness? Or does it further fuel our addition to social media, smart phones and the illusion of being connected?

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The Startup Therapy Couch™: Know it all... Don't control it all.

You MUST know everything that's going on with your company when you're building a startup. If there's a manufacturing process, no one should know it better than you. If there's software, no one should be better informed about the state of the software than you.

HOWEVER... You CANNOT, SHOULD NOT, WILL NOT be able to CONTROL all of those things. And you SHOULD NOT try. Do what you are good at, be the biggest champion of your product and your people, and let those who are great at their jobs do them well.

Happy Tuesday, you know-it-alls!

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