Who says breaking things can't pay off? I sat down about a month ago to try and build a Chrome extension for Yalla. What better coding practice, I thought, than learning to tie an extension into our app? A tool to let users add priorities from outside Yalla would fit perfectly with our vision of …
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It was July 2016 and I was starting to worry. I was about to do something desperate. I was about to walk into a building and attempt to get a job at a digital marketing agency with absolutely no experience. I had quit my job as a reporter four months earlier to concentrate on learning to code. In …
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Greg and I gave a Yalla demo to some potential clients over the phone recently. They were looking for a new customer relationship management system and had narrowed it down to Yalla and a competitor. I started by walking the women through Yalla’s funnel feature, because they said a simple, …
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It's stinking hard to compete with the monster companies in our industry. How can we? They raise lots of money, have crazy valuations, and have signed up all of the "cool" brands to use their software. They get to display all of those brands on their website for instant credibility. We don't have …
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My best friend Brian and I, (who also happens to be the one that coded Yalla) went to college together. We took all of the same classes together and spent almost every waking minute together for about 2 years. We majored in business administration with an emphasis in CIS. The thing is...we didn't …
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One of the biggest fails of my business career was choosing a name for our application, throwing all kinds of time and money into building a brand around that name and then operating long enough to acquire some good clients only to be told by a trademark attorney that we'd be in all kinds of doo doo …
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