Dave Bailey's Blog

One reason engineers tend to overcomplicate, and how to please your customers at a fraction of the cost.

You’ve hired a development team, built a product to address a...

‘We’ll probably have to rebuild this one day.’

What starts as an innocent comment can quickly turn into something that comes up at every technical meeting. The...

There’s no better way to to see a founder’s true colours than by asking about their customers. As an experienced product guy, I can instantly see through founders...

Imagine you could sit down with each one of your customers and show them the ropes of your product. Sure, it would be very effective, but can it scale? It turns out that...

Here is a fast and effective way to create a continuous stream of customer feedback that helps you build a product they will love.

Why do so many founders run into problems when outsourcing their MVP? Often fingers point to the developers, but the problem is probably closer to home. Here’s my tech war...

Isn’t everything on the internet supposed to be free? It turns out the answer is—not if you’d like to build a business. Here’s why you may be...

This advice isn’t new. It came out of the Lean Startup movement: create a landing page, drive some traffic, and see if it’s something people want.

But the...

Every new tech product starts with a simple idea. But in the brutal battle of creation, things can get complicated fast. The focus shifts from the big picture to the details,...

Several years ago, I created a mobile app called Spotnight that showed you every nightlife event across a city on any given night. The idea came about when I was with a group of...