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Two Essential Metrics for Agency Success
This post provides a guide on two crucial metrics for software or digital agency success: utilization rates and Direct Labor Efficiency Ratio (DLER).
Andrew Amann
November 30, 2023
Founder Insights
Navigating the Path from Consultancy to Product Agency
Explore NineTwoThree Studio's shift from venture studio to product agency, and the market expertise needed to build successful software products.
Andrew Amann
November 8, 2023
Founder Insights
The Future of SaaS Development: No Code Platforms
See the capabilities of no-code platforms, and explore how they are democratizing app development, paving the way for new design techniques in SaaS.
Andrew Amann
October 30, 2023
Consulting
Which is Better for Your Idea: Startup Studio or Product Agency?
This article delves deep into the distinctions between incubating your business with a startup studio or spearheading it with a product agency.
NineTwoThree Staff
October 18, 2023
Founder Insights
Finding Solutions As A Non-Technical Founder
How can a non-technical founder come up with a SaaS solution that meets a real market need? Insights from our CEO Andrew Amann about non-technical founding
Andrew Amann
August 14, 2023
Founder Insights
When Should A Business Become Profitable In Its Growth Journey
Insightful strategies for revenue optimization, cost reduction, and efficient scalability while providing a comprehensive understanding of key metrics.
Andrew Amann
July 26, 2023
Founder Insights
AI Complementing, Not Replacing, Humans
Explore how AI enhances efficiency and productivity by taking on repetitive tasks, freeing humans to focus on creativity and strategic endeavors.
Andrew Amann
June 22, 2023
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From 'Good to Great': Key Lessons by Jim Collins
Embark on a thrilling entrepreneurial adventure as we explore the transformative masterpiece, "Good to Great" by Jim Collins.
Andrew Amann
June 21, 2023
Founder Insights
The Kaizen Approach To Building Teams
Discover why it's important to follow the Kaizen method and take the time to build trust and communication in teams before moving into working mode.
Andrew Amann
April 26, 2023
Founder Insights
The Lean Startup Problem
Discover how staff augmentation helps startups stay lean while expanding their team, giving access to new expertise, saving costs, and scaling up.
Andrew Amann
April 24, 2023
Founder Insights
Leading With Compassion Improves Productivity
Learn about the power of compassionate leadership in the workplace, and how it can lead to higher levels of productivity, creativity, and innovation.
Andrew Amann
April 21, 2023
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The Business Journey Of Canva Founder Melanie Perkins
How did Canva CEO and founder Melanie Perkikns overcome a hundred rejections in order to launch one of the world's fastest-growing unicorns?
Andrew Amann
April 19, 2023
Founder Insights
Rolex And The Art of Selling Exclusivity In Software
Rolex works on the art of exclusivity and knowing the niche buying power of its customers. How can tech companies replicate these results?
Andrew Amann
April 5, 2023
Founder Insights
Contributing To Remote Team Culture With Happiness
How does a global remote venture studio foster a sense of belonging and care in its people? We explain our unique approach to team happiness here.
Andrew Amann
April 3, 2023
Founder Insights
The Success Of Nest And How It Almost Wasn't
How did the Nest thermostat go from being an almost-failure to one of the most successful smart home devices in the world? We break down their journey.
Andrew Amann
March 24, 2023
Founder Insights
Defining Sunk Costs In Startups
Building a startup comes with a lot of financial challenges. But the biggest financial challenge by far can be sunk costs. This is how to deal with them.
Andrew Amann
February 24, 2023
Founder Insights
The Succes Of The AirBnB Business Model
More than 1 billion guests are hosted in almost every city and country - all without owning a single property themselves - this is how AirBnB got its start.
Andrew Amann
February 20, 2023
Founder Insights
How Does Duolingo Make Money? The AI-Powered Model Behind Its $3.15B Success
Duolingo is one of the foremost educational apps in the world and with a valuation of $3.15B they've managed to monetize and gamify translation as a whole.
Andrew Amann
February 16, 2023
Founder Insights
How To Predict Revenue Without Knowing Anything About Revenue
We downloaded 13 forecasting tools and built out a custom business model canvas in excel that will work for any founder-led business - predict revenue now.
Andrew Amann
November 23, 2022
Founder Insights
Handy's Secondary Revenue Stream Is Ruling The Gig Economy
Handy's Cash Out Now means investors can bid on the revenue stream from the marketplace to earn a yield as an alternative to fixed-income products.
Andrew Amann
November 17, 2022
Founder Insights
Recruiting For Loyalty: Keeping Your SaaS Team From Quiet Quitting
Quiet quitting will worsen as companies don't understand employee loyalty. These are the steps that help us hire dedicated people and reward them for it.
Andrew Amann
November 14, 2022
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Pregnancy Apps Are Selling Personal Data
50 million women worldwide use menstrual tracking apps. But do all 50 million know their personal health data is being sold to third parties for profit?
Andrew Amann
October 31, 2022
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Achieving 100% Engineer Retention As A Digital Studio
Read about why the team and employee retention are key to our success as a venture studio from our CEO Andrew Amann and how we've retained 100% of our devs
Andrew Amann
October 20, 2022
Founder Insights
What Founders Can Learn From Super Entrepreneur Codie Sanchez
Gain key insights from leading female entrepreneur Codie Sanchez's business journey and learn how she managed to serve the underserved and gain success from it.
Andrew Amann
October 11, 2022
Founder Insights
Balancing Overall Quality Against Development Speed in Mobile Apps
Building a mobile app is a delicate balancing act: how can you ensure that you retain the quality while keeping the speed needed to get to market?
Andrew Amann
September 17, 2022
Founder Insights
How Starbucks Became A Household Name And Lessons For Entrepreneurs
The story behind the venture of Starbucks and how they became an international household name - including how you can do the same.
Andrew Amann
August 5, 2022
Founder Insights
Mistakes Companies Make When Outsourcing Enterprise Mobile Development
There are a few mistakes we commonly see when it comes to outsourcing enterprise mobile app development - here they are in one article.
Andrew Amann
August 4, 2022
Founder Insights
Every Business Is a People Business: Game Theory for Startups
The game theory makes sense to understand the relationship between startups and the people aspect of running your business.
Andrew Amann
July 21, 2022
Founder Insights
First Ventures of Famous Founders
Learning unexpected lessons from some of history's great founders and thought leaders, including how they originated their ventures and their value today.
Andrew Amann
July 12, 2022
Founder Insights
The Problem With Tech Hiring Is Employers
Finding good tech employees is easy if you offer them something worth getting excited about.
Andrew Amann
July 4, 2022
Founder Insights
Task Management Supercharged - NineTwoThree
How a busy founder can keep track of all of their tasks and inboxes using a system that is operating system agnostic.
Andrew Amann
July 1, 2022
Founder Insights
Marc Andreessen On How Society Shapes Technology
Marc Andreessen explains that there are three phases to the introduction of a new piece of technology by society - learn more about it in this post
Andrew Amann
June 20, 2022
Founder Insights
Why Most Social Media Platform Ideas Fail
Here is why most fail, including a massive flop, and why you should never attempt to build one on your own.
Andrew Amann
June 15, 2022
Founder Insights
Operating An Agency with Teammates in Ukraine, March 2022 - 2023
A blog intended to show what it is like to operate an American agency with teammates in an area where a war has begun, and why it's important to support.
Andrew Amann
March 8, 2022
Founder Insights
Helping Others Succeed Leads to Success
Helping others is one of the greatest learned skills an entrepreneur can acquire and can always repeat to continue to get ahead in a future successful startup.
Andrew Amann
January 6, 2022
Founder Insights
Digital Venture Studio Playbook
A playbook on how a digital venture agency reduces the risk of failure and replaces the need for funding - allowing owners to keep 100%.
Andrew Amann
October 1, 2021
Founder Insights
How Does Leadership Influence Organizational Culture?
There is an interesting framework I learned about that takes multiple altruistic acts every day to perfect - defining the culture of your company.
Andrew Amann
September 2, 2021
Founder Insights
The Origin Story Of NineTwoThree
A perfect partner - in business or personal life — is just two people who refuse to give up on each other.
Andrew Amann
August 19, 2021
Founder Insights
Overwhelming the Problem - NineTwoThree
Overwhelming the problem is a management tactic that dates back to Julius Ceasar. It should be a decision to move your business in the right direction.
Andrew Amann
August 9, 2021
Founder Insights
Microwaves Engineers and Accountants Do Not Live in 24 Hour Days
What is a larger number 100 or 90? If you type 90 into a microwave it will take 30 seconds longer than 100. Here's how it relates to employee hours.
Andrew Amann
July 11, 2021
Founder Insights
Hiring NineTwoThree for a Machine Learning Project
Transform your data into a competitive edge with our expert AI/ML team skilled in machine learning, computational science, and statistics.
Andrew Amann
July 1, 2021
Founder Insights
The Product Launch Checklist for 2021
9/10 founders will miss one important step, guess which one.🧵 on which tools will generate the most ROI so that you can focus on sales and product.
Andrew Amann
June 15, 2021
Founder Insights
Finding Revenue Streams - NineTwoThree
Successful mobile apps usually have a hidden revenue stream. Want to learn how to spot them so you can create your own? Here's a case study from Gas Buddy
Andrew Amann
June 8, 2021
Founder Insights
What Role Should Big Tech Censorship Play in Business Ethics?
This example of big tech censorship brings light to the fact that the largest tech companies in the world hold the power to erase other companies.
Pavel Kirillov
April 9, 2021
Founder Insights
Business Continuity with Cloud Agnostic Architecture
AWS' recent suspension of Parler social media network highlighted the dangerous amount of power cloud vendors has over companies.
Pavel Kirillov
April 2, 2021
Founder Insights
The Four Principles of Building a Community
A community is an exclusive gathering where members with shared desires learn about their basic needs through an app created by [your name goes here].
Andrew Amann
January 14, 2021
Founder Insights
The Process for Getting What You Want Out of Life
A Five-Step process developed by Ray Dalio, which any organization past five years or individual can adopt to help achieve their goals.
Andrew Amann
August 29, 2020
Founder Insights
Improving the Lives of Others - NineTwoThree
Software agencies purpose is to build products for their clients, which in turn will generate cash flow for the client by either attracti...
Andrew Amann
July 17, 2020
Founder Insights
Team Management and Structure for Successful Software Development
No matter what your development project, communication, and understanding can make or break its success. Miscommunications or a poor...
Andrew Amann
June 20, 2020
Founder Insights
4 Real Ways to Attain Full Transparency Development
Every software development project requires some degree of transparency. How you stay up-to-date on development cycles and problems will have a...
Andrew Amann
June 20, 2020
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