Germanwings provides a good example for the workflow companies should offer users when sending newsletters.
The path less traveled.
Germanwings provides a good example for the workflow companies should offer users when sending newsletters.
One of the most enriching things I’ve done in my life has been living abroad, experiencing cultures and societies completely different from those in which I was raised. I have a proposal for a Twitter feature that could potentially provide similar benefits.
This article discusses the no-man’s land in which bootstrapping startups often find themselves.
Apple’s app review process seems to get its share of knocks in the developer press, but we at Makalu recently had a positive experience which…
Can scheduling effort in blocks of one week help the service company’s productivity?
In our experience, Google ads blew Facebook ads out of the water.
An office on the beach and next to El Tinglao — perhaps one of the best kept secrets in Marbella, Spain. Fresh fish, barbecued meat,…
Apple Inc. took a risk, and invested in the design and development of an integrated platform — including innovative devices, an operating system, a distribution system, and a payment system. They offer this platform in the free market, under a set of terms and conditions to which those who choose to participate must agree. Those terms explicitly allow Apple to change the game anytime they wish.
Recently, a potential new customer expressed surprise when I told him that we at Makalu usually don’t sign NDAs. Mentioning that he’d found plenty of other companies willing to sign his NDA, I restated commitment to our position, and acceptance that we’d unfortunately have to miss the opportunity.
It’s always difficult to tell potential customers that we simply don’t know how long it’s going to take to build a software system, if said system is moderately complex. This is one reason we avoid fixed-priced projects — when the cost of building something is unknown, you want to make sure both you and the customer are on the same side of the table. It’s also why the principle of building the simplest system possible is so important.
When I started Makalu, over a decade ago, I remember longing for a user’s manual to help with questions like, “How much should I charge?”…
On February 17, Jason Fried wrote an article announcing 37signals’s intention to hire an outside firm to redesign their blog, Signals vs. Noise. Companies wishing to be considered for the project would be required to have a Pro listing on Sortfolio.com — 37signals’s yellow-pages service for finding web design companies. March 8th was the date earmarked for choosing the winning firm.
My colleague in MakaluMedia, Alex Bendiken, just won the Slashdot.com redesign contest. His and our servers are now experiencing a “slashdotting”. This should be quite…
John Engler talks about the salaries of small business owners and his uncle estimates that most small business owners pay themselves a salary equivalent to…
As I go through the process of reviewing CVs for a software engineer position we have open, and keep seeing acronym list after acronym list,…
The search form at Quickbooks.com returns, “Can’t find bundle for base name GlobalWidget on Search Entry Widget”. Trying to upgrade my Timbuktu 7 license to…
Apple Business Plan: “Paul Nixon seems to have nailed the business plan Apple’s following. He’s created a very nice infographic of the Apple products and…
From a new Interview with Steve Jobs in Businessweek: Q: How do you systematize innovation? A: The system is that there is no system. That…
There’s been a lot of negative talk about the fact that Apple are introducing technologies like Dashboard, Spotlight and Safari RSS into the forthcoming OS…
Kimbly writes about what not to do when applying for a job: First, don’t say you’re looking forward to working at a leading pharmaceutical firm,…
Here is an article I’ve been meaning to write for a long time. Glad Joel did it for me. 🙂 If you’re planning to apply…
