— Enten Journal —
Writing from the Enten team
Notes on software development, revenue-share models, and building better relationships between companies and the people who build for them.
2 July 2026
How to Hire a Developer or CTO with Revenue Sharing (Instead of Equity)
Can't afford a senior engineer's full rate — and reluctant to hand over equity? Here's how to hire a developer or CTO with a revenue share: how it works, how much to offer, and when it's the wrong call.
2 July 2026
Revenue Sharing vs Equity: How to Reward Key People Without Diluting
Equity isn't the only way to give someone a stake in your success. Here's how revenue sharing compares to equity for rewarding developers, advisors and partners — when each one wins, and how to choose.
19 March 2024
Mastering Software Development: Effective Product Risk Management
Any software development project will encounter a wide range of foreseen and unforeseen risks. Effective risk management can help teams anticipate challenges, minimise disruptions, and deliver…
12 March 2024
Mastering Software Development: Navigating Technical Debt and Legacy Systems
“We have no tech debt in our codebase.” This, of course, is an impossibility. Balancing innovation with the maintenance of existing code is an unavoidable part of the development process. For CTOs…
8 March 2024
London Weekly Round-up
A v brief round-up of some interesting events we went to this week in London: - a Disruptive Tech meetup on Platform Engineering, run by Civo with talks from Kunal Kushwaha and Will Stewart ; - a…
5 March 2024
Mastering Software Development — Enhancing Developer Motivation and Team Morale
Mastering Software Development — Enhancing Developer Motivation and Team Morale If you’ve lost the motivation of your developers then can you really trust that they’ll get the best results? Effective…
1 March 2024
♂️ Enten London Social Update! ♀️
Following on from the trip to Lisbon the other week, here’s a quick update on some cool events we went to in London over the last week: Robert Haritonov ’s React Advanced London meetup where we heard…
28 February 2024
Mastering Software Development — Managing Scope Creep and Changing Requirements
Mastering Software Development — Managing Scope Creep and Changing Requirements In the world of software engineering, “ requirements ” provide the blueprint for a project’s objectives and…
23 February 2024
Enten in Lisbon Update!
🤔 What did our time in Lisbon teach us? 🤔 🤝 Yesterday brought to a close Enten ’s exploratory mission to Lisbon. Over the last few days, we attended: - A Lisbon Digital Nomads event at Fintech…
20 February 2024
Mastering Software Development: Time Overruns, Hofstadter’s Insight and Strategic Planning
“It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.” — Hofstadter’s Law This witty observation by Douglas Hofstadter from 1979 still rings true today,…
18 February 2024
Enten Case Study Update
Late last week we published an update to the Enten website, detailing an enterprise SaaS case study that demonstrates how our model works. 🇵🇹 Lisbon trip update 🇵🇹 In other news, our fact-finding…
14 February 2024
⛺ What are the features of being a digital nomad? ⛺
Last night, I attended a series of lightning talks at the Block co-working space in Lisbon and heard about the following topics: 🛌 Why we sleep (did you know you that you sleep for on avg 30 years…
30 January 2024
Revolutionising Software Development — the Enten Model
The Rise of New Models and the Enten Royalty Approach Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) face a constant challenge to obtain high quality talent in their rapidly evolving world. Traditional approaches…