A summary of Joe McCann’s New New World Order
The path less traveled.
Category: Business
In this article, I’m going to make the case for considering to allocate a small amount of your savings to Bitcoin. I’ll do that by…
When sourcing work at Upwork, we tend to look for staff who are located in Europe, so that we have the chance to work in…
One of the best, and most spot-on, comics from xkcd:
On December 1, the Canadian company formerly known as BitGold, sent an email to their customers, announcing a change that fundamentally affects how their customers…
This is the story of how Goldmoney botched the communication of a fundamental change in policy, that ultimately may lead to me taking my business…
Our company is bidding on the re-development of an existing product that has outgrown the technical framework on which it was originally built. The customer…
Overview In the world of web application development, we sometimes face technical decisions whose trade-offs extend beyond the technical. Those non-technical trade-offs can be subtle,…
Update — Readers will note that I’ve changed the title and URL of this article, and that’s because shortly after posting it, representatives of SendGrid…
One of my favorite podcasts, recently discovered, is StartUp, by Alex Blumberg, former producer at This American Life. The podcast chronicles the story of starting Gimlet Media, Alex’s new business aimed at creating a network of story-narrative podcasts. “StartUp”, documenting their own story, is Gimlet’s first production, and what’s interesting about this podcast is that Alex records almost all of his conversations along the way, giving us uniquely inside access into the creation of their company.
It’s a weird situation.
In a recent update we made to a customer’s software system, a bug was discovered, which led to a discussion about (a) why the bug wasn’t caught during testing and (b) why we charge them to fix the bug.
Given our business model, this is a discussion that occurs from time to time, and so I decided to capture our viewpoint in the form of an article I can refer to as needed.
In a conversation with the BBC, Motorola president Rick Osterloh had some words to say about Apple’s pricing. We do see a real dichotomy in…
Over on Rantbox, I posted a note about 9to5mac killing their full RSS feed, in the same way that TUAW did a while back—which, for me, marked the beginning of TUAW’s decline.
Today I received an email from Nate Westheimer, founder of the Picturelife service I use to store, manage and enjoy my photos and videos, announcing…
This is the disappointing story of a user who decided to delete Rego, and give it a one-star review.
About a year ago, somebody must have published a very popular book or article proposing a new sales technique that leads to greater conversion. At…
RaceSplitter is an app that provides “do it yourself” timing of sport events. It’s been on the market for three years and has gone through…
After reading about Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, I started thinking about the revenue and public valuations of the giant advertising companies—Google, Facebook and Twitter—as compared to that of Apple:
Back in August, I purchased a 4TB G-Drive at the Apple Store in Marbella to serve as the destination that CrashPlan uses when backing up…
When tens of thousands of customers, I suppose the laws of statistics dictate that you’re going to have a few disagreeable one.
With those, it’s probably best to listen to what they have to say, and just move on. But given the effort we’ve put into making Rego a good product, I can’t help getting a little upset sometimes when I run across them.
Perhaps the biggest struggle in the running a successful small company dedicated to knowledge-based work is deciding “what” to do. When I worked as an employee of another company, back in the day, I only had to worry about “how” I did my job; somebody else figured out the “what”. Read more.
Another good article from The Big Picture blog.
Barry Ritholtz (one of my favorite bloggers) reporting about a study of the effects nasty comments have on reader perception.
