Companies exist to make money. Companies need employees to do work so that they can make money. In a recent LinkedIn post I called “unlimited vacation” a scam. My post seemed t… Read More

This article was inspired by a request from Robert Sweeney, CEO at Facet, to describe what life as a contractor is like for me. Who should read this? Full-time developers who are currently e… Read More

I’m over a month late publishing our Q1 progress report, but here it is…finally. Financials When you create a financial model for your sales or revenue forecast, it will probabl… Read More

In this post I’ll be sharing an update on our marketing efforts at Facet. We’ll talk about our marketing strategy, explain some terminology and give you a view of what it’s… Read More

In 2004 I was a senior majoring in Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. The tech industry hadn’t yet fully recovered from the bubble bursting, so programming jobs were pre… Read More

Last week I was sitting at my desk feeling a little frustrated. A client had recently let us know that they were going to pass on an exceptional developer we had sent them. After a brief int… Read More

This year we should pass $15M in lifetime revenue at Facet. That seems pretty crazy. Just a few years ago I was an individual contributor software engineer at Netflix. Last year we did $2.2M… Read More

It had been 2 months since I left the second company I founded, Numetric. In just 3 short years I’d built the company from nothing to a working product, dozens of customers, 40 employe… Read More

I’m not sure if I’m like most software developers, but I’ve always found that the product I’m working on mostly doesn’t matter. What really makes me happy, and… Read More