by Veronica Drake | Jul 26, 2021 | Best Practices, Culture and Values
As your organization grows and operations become spread out, communication acts as the key to ensuring that teams and projects are aligned. Good communication signals maturity, and setting your team up with set processes that nurture this practice will prevent...
by Bria Fox | Jun 28, 2021 | Culture and Values, Start-up Life
The month of June is widely known as Pride Month and this has led the marketing world to push many companies to switch their logos to includes LGBTQIA+ flags until the 30th. No initiatives, no volunteering, no fundraisers. The stores fill with pride and ally-friendly...
by Veronica Drake | Jun 25, 2021 | Best Practices, Culture and Values
Keeping everyone in the loop at your organization about what’s going on in terms of projects, outages, and your tech stack is a precursor for an efficient company-wide process. Publishing service-level agreements (SLAs) benefits both you and the entire team while...
by M.H. Lines | Jun 21, 2021 | Best Practices, Culture and Values
Transparency can be scary. Especially at a company when failures are certain to happen. AKA every company. #failshappen. It is natural to want to cover up the low points, whether to keep your team, and yourself looking good or to not worry teammates about challenges...
by Adam New-Waterson | Apr 21, 2021 | Culture and Values, Marketing Operations
It’s the thing everyone hates to hear the most — the system went down. In our case, last week for several hours overnight, one of our APIs went offline affecting a percentage of our clients. Once we realized the service was offline, it was fixed within 22... by M.H. Lines | Jan 27, 2021 | Culture and Values
Automaton is now Stack Moxie. Even though I love the name, I hate it. I loved the name Automaton when my cofounder Andy and I sat down in 2016 and came up with it. I was shocked to see it available in a trademark search. It represented everything I thought the company...