“While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space…” — Ryan Holmes

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

Landing a million-dollar investment for your startup is exhilarating. But as big as that number sounds, it doesn't go far. Many startups just getting off the ground won't have a CFO to monitor finances. It doesn't take much for spending to spiral out of control.

At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.

As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do - I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents' car battery... and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s.