There’s a lot that you can tell about an agency from its website, and not all of it obvious. Here are the five elements that, if you know what to look for, can help you come up with a confident evaluation of the software development agency you’re considering hiring.


Evaluating a Software Developments Agency's Website

Evaluating an Agency Website

Health insurers & their marketing teams spend a ton of time and energy getting people to visit their websites. But is bad UX design costing them revenue?

Why Bad UX Is Causing Health Insurers to Lose Revenue

CEO Nick Kishfy tells the Providence Business News about "innovation resources" in RI and what it was like to build a company up from 2 to nearly 50 employees.

Passion is Key Ingredient to Riding Out Tough Times

For all of us “mature” folk working hard to create value with technology, it is important to remember that the “A” word (agile) is nothing to be afraid of.

Being Agile — and Gray

There’s an old anecdote about a chicken and a pig. It goes like this, a pig and a chicken are walking down the road. The chicken says: 'Hey Pig, I was..

Why products built by large teams fail so often

Why Products Built by Large Teams Fail So Often

Kate comes to MojoTech with over 10 years of administrative and support experience.

Meet Kate - Operations Administrator

Meet Kate!

Starting this year all MojoTech employees are eligible to take six weeks of paid leave for family or personal medical reasons.

Introducing Paid Family Leave at MojoTech

Using what your company is - and already has - to ensure it's the best that it can be.

Four Ways to Ensure Your Company Is Your Best Product

Tech Collective recently asked MojoTech how we are driving innovation, education, and growth across the state’s technology ecosystem at large.

Our Motivation for Building an Innovative Company

For the third year in a row, MojoTech was named one of the Best Places to Work in 2016. What makes a company one of the "best" is beyond perks and benefits.

MojoTech Named One of the "Best Places to Work in 2016"

Like many small businesses, we have been faced with many options on how to run and grow our type of business. Some of these options include...

Who moved my dev shop? As business evolves, your strategy should too.

Who moved my dev shop?

See how you can avoid analysis paralysis and build inertia for your company.

Overcoming Problems with Inertia In Big Companies | MojoTech

Overcoming Problems with Inertia In Big Companies

When is the right time to add process to your business?

MojoTech - Boulder Web App Development and Design

New digs in Boulder

MojoTech featured as a top mobile app developer in Boston

MojoTech featured as a top app developer

It is no secret that the discussion surrounding diversity in the tech industry reveals itself to be a multifaceted issue.

Closing the gap: how we’re creating an inclusive environment.

2015's Best Places to Work!

Contrary to popular belief, “product gets built” is not success. Revenue goals. Customer success. Downloads. Engagement. This is how we measure success.

Defining the Ultimate Success of Your Project

How do you define the ultimate success of your project?

Is your idea good enough to turn into a product?

Many people assume that an MVP is simply a pared-down version of the product you want to build. And so to come up with an MVP, they’ll start with a “wish..

From Idea to Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with Examples

How to turn your big idea into a minimum viable product.

Greetings from Boulder!

If we’re meeting to discuss something challenging, we’ll naturally gravitate toward spending time on the easier problem instead. Parkinson’s Law of Triviality.

The appeal of easy problems (aka “bikeshedding”).

At MojoTech, we’re always looking to achieve huge goals. We produce exceptional work because we’ve perfected the ways in which we approach a project.

Marginal gains matter.

In 1998, Keurig introduced the K-Cup. The company’s goal was to standardize the quality of coffee, letting people in homes and offices everywhere brew stuff that consistently tasted good, one cup at a time.

Think protecting Your IP will save you? Think again.

Is “work from home” losing its luster as a recruiting tool?

Should you hire an agency to build your app, or do it in-house?

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of development agencies pop up that sell themselves as “mobile development shops,” with the idea being that there’s something so mystical about mobile development that only they understand.

Don’t hire a mobile development agency without reading this first.

Redefining the project management triangle.

Practicing what we preach: agile philosophy and our website redesign.

At MojoTech we use daily standups to manage our development process and maintain our client relationship day in and day out.

Why you need a daily standup.

What gold mining can teach us about building a successful business.

What gold mining teaches us about building a successful business.

While it's a tempting proposition, we avoid the compensation structures of equity deals. Here are the 3 main reasons.

Why We Don't Do Work for Equity Deals

Micro Contracts and the Iron Triangle:  Stopping Well in Agile/Lean Environments

Do you need a Programmer or an Engineer?

Our final essay in a three-part series from CEO Nick Kishfy on how best to get internal buy-in for something built by an outside agency.

Internal Buy-In For Your App Project: Bringing the Team Together

Our second in a three-part series from CEO Nick Kishfy, on how best to get internal buy-in for something built by an outside agency.

Getting Internal Buy-In: Overcoming The 4 Most Common Objections

Our first in a three-part series from CEO Nick Kishfy on how best to get internal buy-in for something built by an outside agency.

Stuck Getting Internal Buy-In For Your App Project? Here's How.

Innovation for grown-up companies

Duncan Shaw weighs in on how best to encourage real innovation in a large, established business.

We're the Best! (Place to Work in RI)

How Saying No Led To One Of Our Best Engagements

Are you buying a product or an outcome?

MojoTech Partners with Teespring to Accelerate Development

This Article is Late, For Good Reason: Taking control of your workflow

Tradition can be the enemy of innovation, but does it have to be? See how loyalty and preserverance can drive progress towards ideal outcomes.

Does Loyalty Stifle Innovation in Technology? | MojoTech

Should Your Agency Become A Product Company?

Pride in our Work

Clients vs Customers | MojoTech Development Blog

Clients vs. Customers

Ribbon Cutting

What do you do here?

You can use Bitcoins to pay for discount retail goods, computers, space travel and more. And now, we're excited to announce that we've begun accepting Bitcoin from our app development clients.

MojoTech now accepts Bitcoin

At MojoTech, we drive fast and look out the windshield, but every once in a while it’s good to look in the rearview mirror. As we charge ahead, the backdrop of 2013 is a beautiful site.

2013, A Huge Year for MojoTech - Here's to 2014

2013: A Huge Year

Why You Should Stop Looking For The "Best" Apps

Building Better Mojo: Five Reasons We Partner with a Local Charity

We've Been Nominated For the Developer of the Year Award!

The Real Reason 37Signals Is Successful

If you’re thinking of having someone sign an NDA before you share your idea with them, please read this first. I don’t mean this post to be an insult; I only hope that it helps founders refocus on what’s truly important: doing everything you can to execute.

Sorry, But Your Idea Is Only Worth $1

Choosing An Agency To Build Your App? Read This First.

Imagine if users raved about your app. If they just couldn’t wait to come back and use it again.
To me, that’s how it feels to be a Zappos customer. The company continues to wow me.
And I know I’m not the only one.

Five Lessons Product Developers Can Learn From Zappos

And as we hit another huge milestone, our 100th product launch, I can’t help but reflect on these last 100 projects and the road that led here.

A Retrospective of 100 Successful Product Launches | MojoTech

98...99...100!

The Next Million Apps — Big Companies Must Disrupt Themselves

If you’ve gotten a lot of business advice, you’ve probably been told that you shouldn’t fear failure. 

Why You Shouldn’t Embrace Failure

A Quick ‘Thank You’ To Our Clients

How to turn an agency into one of the fastest-growing companies in America

Big Moves At MojoTech

Algorithmic Interviewing (Optimizing to Hire the Wrong Developer)

MojoTech Is the 42nd Fastest-Growing Software Company In America!

A discussion about "the startup culture" concept that gets tossed around a great deal in our community.

Startup Culture Is Not About Ping-Pong Tables

Why Working More Is Not The Answer

Want to make a great product? An engineer isn’t enough.

Build Your Product, Then Your Business

Here are 5 elements that can help you come up with a confident evaluation of the software development agency you’re considering hiring.

Hiring in New York is like hiring for everywhere

MojoTech Team Wins Best Design

In 2012 we’ve grown our team from under ten to over twenty, and we still have positions open. We've moved from a nice little studio in Warren to a much larger headquarters in Providence...

2012 Year in Review - Our Continued Growth | MojoTech

2012 Year In Review

Referrals and Beyond: Marketing a Development Firm

What questions should you ask when hiring a development firm? Before your next project engagement with an outside firm, here are a few questions to ask.

5 Questions To Ask When Hiring A Development Firm

5 Non-Technical Questions To Ask When Hiring A Development Firm

Our very own Sam Saccone & Ryan Coughlin competed last weekend in Boston at AngelHack. They had 24 hours to build a product and demo it to the judges. That product was Snowcast.