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Building with AI Agents Means Becoming More Than an Engineer
AI lets you code at lightspeed, but to ship anything meaningful, you now have to play roles that used to be handled by an entire team, from QA to research to product strategy.
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AI Assisted, AI Agent, and Vibe Coding for Non-Technical Founders
AI can help you build simple things like a marketing site or a bare-bones MVP, but once you move beyond that, you’re going to need real technical depth to keep everything from collapsing under its own weight.
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Announcing the launch of Blackfullness 2.0
In an age where self-care, emotional regulation, and mental health are core to simply functioning as adults, having the right support system is not optional. It is essential.
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NITM @ AcceleratorCon 2025
NITM showed up to AcceleratorCon 2025 as a proud sponsor and speaker, sharing insight into building MVP products, using AI effectively, and navigating the early founder journey.
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Introducing: Let’s Be Real About …
Social media makes it easy to lose yourself in the “lives” of your “connections.” A two-hour Instagram binge can feel like a five-minute “wait… what just happened?!?” moment. It’s time to pause and be real with ourselves and with the people we love.
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Over Productivity in the Age of AI Agents
Chasing that elusive "10x or 20x multiplier" isn't worth it unless you're genuinely benefiting financially.
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Over Productivity in the Age of AI Agents
Chasing that elusive "10x or 20x multiplier" isn't worth it unless you're genuinely benefiting financially.
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Bridging the Gap: Making a Sustainable Transition from Fortune 1000 to Startup World
You can absolutely thrive in the startup world, but only if you rewire your mindset, systems, and support network for the long game.
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Building the Right Tech Stack: A Guide for Managers Moving into Startup Leadership
Choosing the right technology stack early can make the difference between rapid growth or expensive setbacks, it's your startup's strategic backbone.
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Effective UI/UX in Early-Stage Startups: Why Design Matters More Than You Think
In a world of fleeting attention spans, your product's design can be the deciding factor between gaining loyal users or losing them to competitors.
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Managing Startup Risk: Setting Yourself Up for Success (And Safeguarding Your Career)
Every startup leap carries risk, identify and mitigate the biggest ones before you dive in.
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Scaling Smart: Infrastructure Considerations Before Your Startup Takes Off
Scaling too early leads to waste, while scaling too late leads to outages, churn, missed revenue, poor timing and infrastructure discipline are everything.
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Securing Funding for Pre-Series A Ventures: What Corporate Managers Need to Know
Raising money for your startup isn't about pitching your idea, it's about proving your execution.
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Startup Leadership 101: Coaching, Mentoring, and Growing Your New Team
You’re not just building a product, you’re building the people who will build the product.
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Your First Startup Hire: What Mid-Level Managers Should Know About Team Building
Your first hire will shape how your company works, communicates, and scales; choose wrong, and you’ll multiply the chaos.
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From Corporate Projects to Startup Sprints: Agile Methodologies That Work
More than half of early‑stage teams blame slow decision cycles for missed product‑market fit—and nothing slows a team faster than dragging a 12‑month corporate roadmap into a 12‑week runway. According to McKinsey, Agile transformations can significantly boost EBITDA, enhance employee engagement, improve customer satisfaction, and accelerate time-to-market, much like Henry Ford's revolutionary shift with the assembly line dramatically improved productivity, affordability, and worker satisfaction.
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Evaluating the Startup Product: From Corporate Pain Points to MVP Potential
So, you’ve come across a startup product or service that claims to solve a glaring inefficiency or fill a gap—whether it’s in the corporate world or beyond. You’re intrigued, but you’re not sure whether it’s worth your time, money, or energy. Whether you’re thinking about joining, investing, or partnering up, evaluating the product or service thoroughly is a must. Let’s break down how to figure out if this product or service is the real deal or just another shiny object.
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Inside the Pre-Series A Startup Mindset: What to Expect and How to Thrive
The Pre-Series A stage is one of the most exhilarating yet chaotic phases of a startup’s journey. Unlike corporate environments with defined processes, established teams, and stable resources, early-stage startups thrive on speed, iteration, and adaptability.
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Why Mid-Level Managers Make Great Startup Leaders
Mid-level managers in Fortune 1000 companies often possess deep operational expertise, strong people-management skills, and a drive for greater impact. While they may not yet hold a "VP" or "C-level" title, their experience in problem-solving, process optimization, and strategic execution makes them invaluable to startups. If you're considering making the leap into the startup world, you may be more prepared than you think.
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Dear future founder: Stop F*cking Spinning your Wheels!
Founders spend so much time seeking perfection that they miss their opportunity and spend years trying to figure out what other little feature will make their product more viable. This is all before even putting their product in from other actual customers. 😡. You need to get in front of your customer as quickly as possible!
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On finance & funding: Should I bootstrap or seek investment for my startup?
Raising money for your venture can be one of the most fruitful things you can do. It can also be one of the most distracting things you can do in the early stages of building your tech company. What if I told you there was another, more foolproof way, to launch your business?
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To AI assist or to not AI assist
By now, it's almost impossible not to have heard of ChatGPT, Chatbots, or some level of AI. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of our lives and businesses, evolving from classical AI to the current era of Broad AI (LLM/Large Language Models, LAM/Large Action Models), and poised for the future of general AI/AGI. AI's exponential growth has reached a pivotal juncture where its presence will soon be ubiquitous: AI everywhere.
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Is my company tech-enabled or tech-innovative?
Congratulations on launching your new company! You've got the LLC or Corp established, a compelling name, logo, and colors that reflect your brand identity. You're ready to pitch, demo, and share your innovative startup with the world.
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Mastermind Groups: Your network is your net worth
Mastermind groups are great for getting the kind of support you need when you need it. For entrepreneurs, hustlers, and high-performing professionals, mastermind groups serve as a base of support that you may not get in your daily life.
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Business Analysis: Let’s hammer out a solution through Brainstorming.
At NITM we take pride in providing our clients with helpful tools that can be used collaboratively or individually. Many of our tools are spread across both the technical and business spaces. Today we will discuss a very useful technique you can use as part of your business analysis activities.
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Protect your Ass(ets)
As a business owner, entrepreneur, founder, partner or person responsible for the spending of your money, the most dangerous things out there are a waste of your time, money and energy. While you can get more of and make up for some of each, do you really want to though? Today we’re gonna talk about one of the worst cases of time, money and energy suck we’ve experienced so far: The scam known as T-Mobile Travel.
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In order to Scrum you must be Agile
Day to day collaboration on projects requires organisation, communication and progress. There are various frameworks for project management that can help ensure the product is being delivered according to the vision of the idea person. We take advantage of lightweight principles of project management known collectively as Agile.
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Why understanding the value of chatbots is critical to your success
A chatbot is software that can be used with either visual, voice or text to interact with your users. Chatbots can be found in every part of life, from popular voice assistants such as Alexa and Google Home to messaging platforms such as Slack, Skype, Facebook Messenger and more. They offer a unique way to interact with potential users and could provide extra value to your customers with little effort.
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Why does the user need an experience?
Knowing your target market is simple. Understanding what they want and need requires a bit more work. Crafting a proper user experience is about listening to your customer, confirming their needs and providing a level of service they can be proud of.
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What can the cloud do for you?
Like most things tech, if you didn't grow up with technology or have an affinity for it then it'll be more difficult to learn and understand. The cloud is technology that either makes sense to a business owner or doesn't. It’s not magical or sentient and exists to both save you money and make more money.
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Servermore or Serverless?
We’ve worked with startups and small businesses to help them develop their MVP and feature products. Part of that conversations usually focuses around choosing the right cloud architecture. Cloud infrastructure can already be confusing and problematic if not setup and maintained properly. As always with technology there is the next evolution. Enter Serverless architecture.