Blog
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Product Owners
A Guide to How BRS Keeps Their Clients Involved Every Step of the Way
- Aidan Mirisola-Sullivan
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The Art of Project Management
Like Spinning Plates
- Aidan Mirisola-Sullivan
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Enterprise hapi
with an Enterprise Client
- Bill Woodruff
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Sponsoring the future of Node.js web frameworks
Ensuring hapi days are ahead
- Devin Ivy
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Case Study: Embedded NodeJS Team
An embedded consulting and development team augmentation project that forged a longterm partnership.
- Emily Straubel
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Why Node.js
Why The Biggest Tech Companies Are Switching to Node.js
- Emily Straubel
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Cloud Migration to AWS
When is the right time to move your business to the cloud.
- Emily Straubel
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Need a working vacation?
The Developer-in-Residence program is designed to bring fresh talent to Maine from anywhere in the world.
- Emily Straubel
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Notes on Net Neutrality
This is about creating a fair playing field for new companies, economic opportunity for rural communities, and about people choosing the kind of world we want to live in.
- Sam Mateosian
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The hapi pal roadmap
build a healthy community around building healthy nodejs web services
- Devin Ivy
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From Monolith to Microservices
How to refactor a monolithic application into microservices
- Emily Straubel
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CBB Hackathon
Weekend adventures in computer science.
- Emily Straubel
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Introducing hapi pal
a suite of tools and best practices for the working hapijs developer
- Devin Ivy
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Refactor or Die
Prioritizing and decision-making when you need to refactor your SaaS product
- Emily Straubel
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Measuring success for new products
Metrics that matter when you're building software from scratch
- Emily Straubel
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When Growth Stalls
How to learn from slow growth and change your platform to perform better and beat the competition
- Emily Straubel
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EVENT: STARTUP SPRINT
FREE WORKSHOP SERIES TO VALIDATE & PROTOTYPE YOUR STARTUP IDEA
- Emily Straubel
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Maine Lumberjacks: A Brand Experiment
Building a brand that reflects the rugged Maine woodsman for a team named the "Lumberjacks".
- Emily Straubel
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Wild Blueberries: A Brand Experiment
When crowdsourcing a hockey team name, our designers take on the challenge of reimagining fruit as intimidating for a team named the "Wild Blueberries".
- Emily Straubel
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Big News for Maine Hockey Fans
Maine Mariners and Big Room Studios Announce Partnership to Create Visual Brand for the New Portland-based Hockey Team
- Emily Straubel
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#ASW2017
8 Startup Events Not To Miss At Austin Startup Week 2017 #ASW2017
- Emily Straubel
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Twitter Guide to Node Interactive 2017 Speakers
@Twitter list of speakers and Node Interactive organizers
- Emily Straubel
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Node Interactive 2017 Schedule
A quick guide to the Node Interactive Schedule 2017 .
- Emily Straubel
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Hiring? Go to Node Interactive
Why You'll Meet Your Next (and best) Employee at Node Interactive
- Emily Straubel
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How to Hire SEO Services
Compare working with SEO freelancers, boutique agencies, full-service agencies and hiring an in-house SEO
- Emily Straubel
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SEO Metrics That Matter
Tracking key metrics over time will become help you gauge success and improve your tactics.
- Emily Straubel
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SEO Best Practices Checklist
List of the fundamental SEO best practices to follow when building or redesigning websites.
- Emily Straubel
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Civic Design Fest 2017
Building tech for our community. September 23rd - Mechanics Hall
- Emily Straubel
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Startup Marketing Toolkit
The apps and services we use to help startups scale and automate their marketing.
- Emily Straubel
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New SEO/PPC Services!
Big Room now offers a 3 week intensive marketing bootcamp for businesses that need to get a lot done, quickly.
- Emily Straubel
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ART: SEEN - VR Art Experience at MSCW
Last week we debuted our newest Virtual Reality art experience ART: SEEN at the Maine Startup and Create Week. An interactive tour of Maine's art scene.
- Emily Straubel
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Get Funded: Part 6 (The prototype)
A prototype might be all you need to prove to investors that your company's opportunity outweighs the potential risk.
- Emily Straubel
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Maine's R&D Bond Passed. Thank God.
Despite predictably low voter turnout, The Economic Development Bond passed and was later signed into law.
- Emily Straubel
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Getting Funded: Part 5 (The metrics)
Know which startup metrics matter and how to track them. It could make all the difference in getting seed funding.
- Emily Straubel
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Founders Party
You're formally invited to this ridiculous party. There will be beer. There will be shenanigans.
- Emily Straubel
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Maine Startup & Create Week 2017
We'll be hosting workshops, panels and throwing a badass party. Here's a list of where to find Big Roomers.
- Emily Straubel
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Vote Today in Maine to Invest in R&D
Vote YES on Question 1 to Invest in Maine's Research & Development
- Emily Straubel
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Getting Funded: Part 4 (The market)
It takes experimentation and testing to understand how a product that will meet the needs of the market.
- Emily Straubel
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Getting Funded: Part 3 (The origin story)
Craft a pitch story that makes them personally invested in your team and your product's success through basic storytelling techniques.
- Emily Straubel
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Getting Funded: Part 2 (The obsession)
Whether they call it passion, grit or obsession, investors need to know you'll do whatever it takes to grow the company against all odds.
- Emily Straubel
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Getting Funded: Part 1 (The startup team)
In a highly competitive market, investors have been increasingly judicious about what, and more importantly, who they invest in.
- Emily Straubel
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Losing web traffic?
The March 8, 2017 Google algorithm update caused panic for most. Unless you have a site with awesome content.
- Emily Straubel
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Wordcamp 2017: Content-First Workshop
Sharing the nitty gritty details of our Content-First approach with the world at WordCamp 2017 in Portland.
- Big Room Studios
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Maine.js Event
Functional Reactive Programming in 2017 and Beyond
- Emily Straubel
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Agile-ish
We aren’t dogmatic about the way we do things, but we borrow from Agile and Lean processes.
- Emily Straubel
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VR For Foodies
Can Virtual Reality change the way we taste food in the future?
- Sam Mateosian
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Get More Done
We keep our teams small, self-organizing and packed with experts.
Everyone's accountable and responsible. Everyone gets shit done.- Big Room Studios
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Musicians Using VR
New musicians embrace VR and give us a vision of what's possible using new technology.
- Emily Straubel
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Looking for a Technical Co-Founder?
Before you give equity to a technical co-founder, consider one of these hiring options. It might save money, time and even the company.
- Emily Straubel
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Wasted.
You're wasting your marketing budget on these social media mistakes.
- Big Room Studios
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SXSW Guide
The Startup Founders Guide To Chance Encounters at SXSW
- Big Room Studios
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VR SXSW 2017
Where to find us in Austin during SXSW 2017.
- Big Room Studios
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Need a job?
We're looking at you Project Managers!
- Big Room Studios
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Culture of Innovation
Over 16 years, BRS has developed a culture of innovation that has mobilized our small but mighty team to produce hundreds of weird and awesome projects.
- Emily Straubel
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Featured on WCSH
We consider it the greatest compliment to have our work compared to being in the matrix.
- Emily Straubel
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What is Agile?
The ability to change and innovate quickly.
- Emily Straubel
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Virtual Reality Collaboration
An event to bring virtual reality to Maine businesses.
- Emily Straubel
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Maine Startup and Create Week
An interview with co-founder Sam Mateosian on the state of entrepreneurship in Maine.
- Big Room Studios
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We're Moving
Come September 2015, the newly established Thompson’s Point will be the next place for us to call home.
- Big Room Studios
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The Underground’s Finest Project Managers
How project management can sometimes feel like playing drums with four arms.
- Sam Frankel
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In Defense of CuttySSark
Bringing JavaScript-driven events into your CSS.
- Devin Ivy
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A Leap Forward
The carpet finally matches the drapes, and we couldn’t be more excited.
- Chris Bracco
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Westward, Ho!
A Startup Pilgrimage from Portland, Maine to San Francisco.
- Sam Mateosian
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First Civic Hack Night
My thoughts on a heart-warming, butt-cleansing success (more on the butts later.)
- Sam Mateosian
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Multiple SSL Certificates in Apache
Setting up multiple SSL Certificates in Apache with One IP Address.
- Tim Mateosian
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Robotics Hack Weekend
The latest member of our team is a keyboard controlled wheelchair named Jazzy.
- Sam Mateosian