Charles Forster

10+ years in software design & development, and delivered products used by hundreds of thousands of users. I'm passionate about the product creation process and building productive teams.

Passionate about personal & leadership growth for founders and entrepreneurs.

Author: Charles Forster

Space travel was only possible because of steps
Personal Development
Charles Forster

A giant leap is just a series of small steps

From the time Kennedy proclaimed “We choose to go to the moon” until Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon and uttered the famous phrase “one giant leap for mankind”, a brilliant, dedicated group of pioneering men and women undertook the impossible: to do what no one on earth had ever done. It was a

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Personal Development
Charles Forster

Life, Disrupted – A Day of Startups

Morning 6:00 am. My iPhone lights up and screams at me to wake up. Ugh. Rubbing my eyes, it’s time to throw off the Parachute sheets, roll out of my Casper bed and pull the sheets back up to the pillows. That’s about as close as I get to making my bed. I mean, no one actually makes their bed, do

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Personal Development
Charles Forster

The Key Entrepreneurial Trait My Dad Unknowingly Taught Me

When I was growing up, society didn’t glorify rock-star business leaders like we do now. We didn’t have Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to look up to. Sergey Brin and Larry Page hadn’t built Google yet. But I had my father. To be completely fair, we’re not billionaires. We haven’t even come close to that

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Apples App Store Problem
Tech Life
Charles Forster

Apple’s App Store Problem – and How They Can Fix It

When the iPhone came out, Apple was crowned the king of mobile. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Back in the early 2000’s designers were having an experimental free-for-all trying to figure out how a website should look and function. Then in 2007 the iPhone was released introducing the world to the concept of apps.

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Charles Forster - Meditation
Personal Development
Charles Forster

30-12-1: January – Meditation, A Retrospective

February is now upon us and since we’ve gone 1/12 of the way around the sun, it’s time to talk about January’s plan and how it went. For January, I was focusing on Meditation. The goal was to meditate every day and track how I was feeling, what went right and what went wrong. To

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