Draw a line between work and life, advises entrepreneur Veronica Kirin. When you're starting a business you need to be intentional about planning down time, so you don't find yourself becoming a workaholic.

Everyone wants to be a rockstar, in life and in business, right? Nicole Holland believes that everyone is a rockstar in their own right, they just need to find their hit song and get discovered. She's been involved in entrepreneurship and coaching since a young age, but when she got serious about it, she rocked it!

How do we come up with a new idea? Gert Garman facilitates brainstorming sessions and uses innovation processes to bring new ideas to light.

Radoslav Stankov has been doing software development since 2002, starting as PHP programer, but quickly moved around the tech stack. Rodoslav considers himself to be a full stack developer. Currently he's working at ProductHunt, where he does iOS development in Objective-C / Swift, backend in Node and Rails and frontend in React / Redux. He believes that frontend and backend are equally important and a lot of problems can be avoided by working in collaboration.

This is part one in a three part series, focused on the 3 personal attributes that help build trust, respect and likability in the workplace.

Eric Stroh is an experienced software developer and sports enthusiast. After teaching computer science for 15 years he joined the ranks of iOS developers at CapTech Consulting, building mobile apps for large financial institutions. When not mastering iOS Autolayout, Eric enjoys time on the lake and playing tennis.

As a kid, JR didn't have running water and realized his family was struggling. Due to his work ethic and mentors, he's built and sold 3 businesses and working on his 4th.

Chris Britton used to be the kind of guy who would rarely take a long vacation. When he did, he could not completely get unplugged and resist taking calls and answering emails. Now when he books a vacation, he specifically looks for areas with horrible cell phone coverage and leaves for two weeks at a time.

John Michael is a designer/front-end developer who teamed up with co-worker Paul Groetzner to start a software company while keeping both of their 9-5 day jobs. Nine months later, they are gearing up for their official launch and would like to share their experience of starting with nothing to producing a viable market product with zero funding.

Matt LaVoie discusses the differences between developing user interfaces for yourself and being a servant designer, empathizing with customers.