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Rands In Repose: Hacking is Important
"ebook doesn’t want to be a big company. Like Google before it, Facebook took the time to carefully document the reasons they were not intending to become a traditional company in their S1 filing, and while this letter is positioned to the future legion of investors, the letter is a recipe for Facebook employees:

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo."
hacking  culture  business  development  programming  Facebook 
10 weeks ago by earth2marsh
Alex Payne — On Business Madness
"We mistake dumb luck for a machine that produces success. We rely on induction when we should rely on deduction, and then, having realized our mistake, we lean on “data-driven decisions” in lieu of common sense. We chase patterns that aren’t there and miss eager markets right in front of us. All this while projecting the confidence, real or manufactured, that’s necessary to play the game."
advice  business  management  startups  alex_payne 
february 2012 by earth2marsh
How Trello is different - Joel on Software
Another way of putting that is:  never build anything in-house if you can expose a basic API and get those high-value users (the ones who are getting the most value out of the platform) to build it for you. On the Trello team, any feature that can be provided by a plug-in must be provided by a plug-in.
business  startup  trello  apis  features 
january 2012 by earth2marsh
Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups
"The story of the Internet has been deflationary from Amazon to Craigslist to iTunes.  And so too will be Factual.  They have built algorithms that automatically crawl the web for the world’s best structured data and use heuristic techniques to ensure the quality of the data.  They have built tools to store the data but also to allow 3rd-party developers to rapidly consume or even write data to their tables.<br />
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business  data  trends  future  from delicious
august 2011 by earth2marsh
» 57 Questions About Metrics The Experience is the Product
"Asking questions helps me make sense of metrics.  It’s easier for me to think in terms of questions first, then look for the ways to answer them (whether that involves quantitative analytics, qualitative research, user testing, or some other tool).<br />
Not all of these questions will be relevant for your business, but seeing a checklist can help you identify the questions that do make sense for you.  (It’s also useful to revisit this list from time to time, because as your business evolves, the questions you focus on will change.)"
analytics  metrics  business  from delicious
april 2011 by earth2marsh
The Builders' Manifesto - Umair Haque - Harvard Business Review
"are you merely managing an organization, just leading an organization — or are you building an institution? "
leadership  business  management  innovation  future  builder  manifesto  from delicious
april 2011 by earth2marsh
startuptools / FrontPage
"Start-ups are always short on time. Here are some tools (products/frameworks/etc) that might avoid you reinventing the wheel and save you some valuable time.We (Songkick) have found that the most useful tools are introduced to us by other start-ups. This wiki is an attempt to collect some of that knowledge and experience in one place so that companies getting started on new problems have a useful reference.This list is focused on technical tools to save development time. For business focused resources, Seedcamp have created a useful wiki here."
tools  startup  business  reference  development  from delicious
march 2011 by earth2marsh
PeteSearch: Why API Providers Hate You
"Everybody in the engineering team was a fan of what third-party developers were doing with our APIs, and wanted to encourage and help them however they could. Especially in the early days, we sit around with developers and get excited about what was possible, getting their hopes up. Unfortunately our enthusiasm was no match for relentless schedules and bug-fix prioritization, so we always had radically less resources to give them than we'd hoped for. When engineering hopes collides with business priorities, revenue wins. Looking back, I feel most guilty about the way I let my own enthusiasm lead third-party developers on, and I'd imagine the Twitter engineers feel something of that too. It's Not Personal. When your dreams and livelihood are on the line, it's hard not to feel like it's the fault of the people you're dealing with."
api  developers  community  business  conflict 
march 2011 by earth2marsh
What Happened to Yahoo
"By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto pyramid scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!""
paul_graham  hackers  entrepreneurship  business  yahoo  startups  search  technology  lessons  history  internet  advertising  culture 
august 2010 by earth2marsh
user5653619 - PFBMFMNI Jingle (OG Version) - SoundCloud
""On the Media" has used this jingle every time we've discussed Present and Future Business Models for Monetizing the Newspaper Industry for the past year or so. We've decided to update it though. Stay tuned..."
npr  radio  otm  jingle  newspapers  business  models  song  music 
july 2010 by earth2marsh
8 Startup Lessons from Constant Contact
"Get a CEO peer group to bounce ideas off of as soon as possible. Gail learned from a fellow CEO that calling free trial-ers would lead to a doubling in their “trial-to-pay” conversion rates. Trying this was the difference between a model that she thought was failing miserably and one that has built Constant Contact into a publicly traded company (see #3 on giving experiments enough time). If your product is strong enough, people do not need to be sold. Focus your sales teams on being coaches, not salespeople. This means focusing salespeople on making prospective customers successful, and not on near-term revenue maximization."
freemium  SaaS  businessmodel  business  entrepreneur  startup  strategy  startups  constantcontact 
july 2010 by earth2marsh
The Technium: The Shirky Principle
""Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -- Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds me of the clarity of the Peter Principle, which says that a person in an organization will be promoted to the level of their incompetence. At which point their past achievements will prevent them from being fired, but their incompetence at this new level will prevent them from being promoted again, so they stagnate in their incompetence. The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions (like a company, or an industry) can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem."
business  economics  entrepreneur  ideas  innovation  organization  problems  technology  quotes  solution  clay_shirky 
june 2010 by earth2marsh
Lessons Learned: What is a startup?
"Startups are designed for the situations that cannot be modeled, are not clear-cut, and where the risk is not necessarily large – it’s just not yet known. I emphasize this point because it is necessary to motivate large amounts of the theory of the lean startup. Fundamentally, the lean startup is a methodology for coping with uncertainty and unknowns with agility, poise, and ruthless efficiency. It is a completely different experience from the equally hard job of executing in a traditional kind of business"
definition  business  entrepreneurship  startup 
june 2010 by earth2marsh
Care and Kick Butt!!!! « Virtualization journey
Values are only meaningful if they are lived every day, if they are put into tangible action by the management team down day in and day out. As I get older I have a hard time with long list of things (where long is 5) and the product manager in me reminds me that having short and sweet priorities is paramount So, after years of working in, leading, studying teams and organizations, I think that if I had a company on my own again I would boil the company values down to two. Ready? Here they go: Care Kick Butt
business  philosophy  values  mission  via:bmulloy 
february 2010 by earth2marsh
How To Spam Facebook Like A Pro: An Insider’s Confession
" how these online scams work on Facebook and other social networks – the mechanics of how the money is made, some of the people involved, and who is actually clicking on ads. If you’re reading this article, there is a good chance that you are not the type of person actually clicking on these spam ads, but are you curious as to who actually is?"
spam  socialnetworking  socialmedia  advertising  facebook  social  community  online  marketing  business 
november 2009 by earth2marsh
Skimlinks :: Simplified affiliate marketing for publishers - generate revenue from your site's content easily
"How we help publishers save time and effort We convert your links into affiliate links for you Access to 6000+ affiliate programs with no admin effort Centralised reporting, showing what your users click on and buy Increased click-throughs by keeping natural links Broadest support for deep-links"
webdev  business  aggregator  affiliate  revenue  advertising  links  marketing 
october 2009 by earth2marsh
Business Model Jujutsu
"We tried charging for our API without much success.  Then we paid developers to use it and it took off. It is such an interesting move to make on the market. In the case of TACODA, they initially built a powerful behavioral targeting solution for publishers to segment their audiences and sell them to advertisers. They sold the technology to about twenty large online publishers. But the sales cycles were long and the license fees were smaller than they needed them to be. "
api  marketing  startup  strategy  business  model  adoption 
october 2009 by earth2marsh
Derek Powazek - Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists
"Search Engine Optimization is not a legitimate form of marketing. It should not be undertaken by people with brains or souls. If someone charges you for SEO, you have been conned."
seo  rant  evil  marketing  webdev  inspiration  advice  usability  tips  design  howto  business 
october 2009 by earth2marsh
Post-Medium Publishing
"In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren't really selling it either. If the content was what they were selling, why has the price of books or music or movies always depended mostly on the format? Why didn't better content cost more?"
culture  technology  essay  paulgraham  content  business  marketing  media  publishing 
september 2009 by earth2marsh
Open Atrium
"a free and open source intranet built as a Drupal distribution, with some impressive functionality available out of the box. Not only is this a solid piece of software to begin with, but its makers are evangelizing what they think could be a transformative paradigm for extending Drupal's capabilities. In addition to being a well-constructed Drupal distro, the software is neatly packaged with an array of useful features for internal collaboration. There are blogs, wikis, a calendar, to-do lists, a ticketing system, and a microblogging tool called the Shoutbox. To aggregate the activity from these various parts, there's a group dashboard."
drupal  calendar  cms  community  intranet  business  opensource  wiki  collaboration 
july 2009 by earth2marsh
Seth's Blog: Malcolm is wrong
"Magazines and newspapers were perfect businesses for a moment of time, but they wouldn't have worked in 1784, and they're not going to work very soon in the future either. We're always going to need writers, but the business model of their platform is going to change. People will pay for content if it is so unique they can't get it anywhere else, so fast they benefit from getting it before anyone else, or so related to their tribe that paying for it brings them closer to other people. We'll always be willing to pay for souvenirs of news, as well, things to go on a shelf or badges of honor to share."
free  business  economics  gladwell  malcolm_gladwell  trends  future  journalism  media  attention  seth_godin  marketing  economy  news  chris_anderson 
july 2009 by earth2marsh
Email patterns can predict impending doom - tech - 22 June 2009 - New Scientist
"After US energy giant Enron collapsed in December 2001, federal investigators obtained records of emails sent by around 150 senior staff during the company's final 18 months. The logs, which record 517,000 emails sent to around 15,000 employees, provide a rare insight into how communication within an organisation changes during stressful times."
enron  forecast  email  patterns  stress  prediction  analytics  crisis  pattern  network  psychology  datamining  business 
june 2009 by earth2marsh
Scan Your Books And Search Them On Google
"he ability to enter your own books and create a personal library which you can then search if Google has scanned those books."
search  google  business  scanner  barcode  digitization  scanning 
june 2009 by earth2marsh
FriendDA -- Slightly more than a hearty handshake
Enjoyed a laugh from @rands creation of the FriendDA (= NDA for Friends) #YesI'mLate
collaboration  humor  business  friend  contract  agreement  tech  ideas  entrepreneurship  nda  disclosure  protection  idea  YesI 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
How the Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs - BusinessWeek
"When you are at the top of the world, the most powerful nation on Earth, the most successful company in your industry, the best player in your game, your very power and success might cover up the fact that you're already on the path of decline." That question—how would you know?—captured my imagination and became part of the inspiration for this book"
article  business  usa  decline  failure  signs  strategy 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
Socialcast
private microblogging. "Socialcast is free for 10 users and $1 per month for each additional user Special rates for companies with 50+ users and non-profits"
microblogging  intranet  twitter  networking  collaboration  business  service  socialsoftware  communication  sharing  tool  enterprise 
may 2009 by earth2marsh
On newspapers: Google in the middle | Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog
"the essential problem facing the online news business is oversupply. The cure isn't pretty. It requires, first, a massive reduction of production capacity - ie, the consolidation or disappearance of lots of news outlets. Second, and dependent on that reduction of production capacity, it requires news organizations to begin to impose controls on their content. By that, I don't mean preventing bloggers from posting fair-use snippets of articles."
economics  business  middle  newspapers  journalism  google  syndication  change 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
Tropicana Line's Sales Plunge 20% Post-Rebranding - Advertising Age - News
"According to Information Resources Inc., unit sales dropped 20%, while dollar sales decreased 19%, or roughly $33 million, to $137 million between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22. Moreover, several of Tropicana's competitors appear to have benefited from the misstep, notably Minute Maid, Florida's Natural and Tree Ripe. Varieties within each of those brands posted double-digit unit sales increases during the period. Private-label products also saw an increase during the period, in keeping with broader trends in the food and beverage space."
marketing  business  branding  package  design  sales  packaging  advertising  logo 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
Edge: THE END OF UNIVERSAL RATIONALITY: A Talk with Yochai Benkler
"about human sharing, about the relationship between human interest and human morality and human society."
sustainability  innovation  culture  change  business  knowledge  networks  sharing 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
The Atlantic Online | May 2009 | The Quiet Coup | Simon Johnson
"The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time."
atlantic  imf  oligarchy  banks  finance  business  economics  banking  corruption  crisis  bailout  2009  wallstreet  politics  change  government  economy  regulation 
april 2009 by earth2marsh
The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone
"No empire can survive being rendered a permanent laughingstock, which is what happened as of a few weeks ago, when the buffoons who have been running things in this country finally went one step too far. It happened when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was forced to admit that he was once again going to have to stuff billions of taxpayer dollars into a dying insurance giant called AIG, itself a profound symbol of our national decline — a corporation that got rich insuring the concrete and steel of American industry in the country's heyday, only to destroy itself chasing phantom fortunes at the Wall Street card tables, like a dissolute nobleman gambling away the family estate in the waning days of the British Empire."
rollingstone  finance  economy  economics  usa  money  politics  business  financial  analysis  crisis  bailout  wallstreet  recession  2009 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
Monetizing your Web App: Business Model Options | Our Blog | Box UK
"Building or launched a web site/application? Check out the choices below on how to generate money from your hard work. Note that these are not mutually exclusive: consider mixed hybrid models too."
business  model  plan  startup  economics  models 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
Conceptual Trends and Current Topics
"A fairly detailed taxonomy of the existing business models for web sites. The breakdown is here. Using their taxonomy the researches than examined one Top 100 web app list for 2008 and found that: 34% use Advertising, 12% a Variable Subscription model, and 8% each for Virtual Products (typically digital downloads), Related Products (typically a large software company offering a free product to attract you to their platform) and Pay-Per-Use."
business  plan  startup  revenue  model 
march 2009 by earth2marsh
Prince-ly returns from the Because Effect
"When something that was originally scarce starts becoming abundant, something strange happens. You find that you start making money because of that thing rather than with that thing. That’s the Because Effect."
innovation  marketing  economics  trend  abundance  music  business 
january 2009 by earth2marsh
After Credentials
"The course of people's lives in the US now seems to be determined less by credentials and more by performance than it was 25 years ago. Where you go to college still matters, but not like it used to. What happened? _____ Judging people by their academic credentials was in its time an advance. The practice seems to have begun in China, where starting in 587 candidates for the imperial civil service had to take an exam on classical literature."
credentials  degree  education  university  paul_graham  wealth  career  parenting  performance  business  economics 
december 2008 by earth2marsh
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Omnigoogle
excellent overview of why Google's business is a bit unlike any other's.
google  business  economics  microsoft  future  information  advertising  economy  strategy 
september 2008 by earth2marsh
Pay Dispute Continues as Classes Near - washingtonpost.com
many of the District's 4,000 public school teachers are locked in a heated debate over Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's proposal to offer salaries exceeding $100,000 for those willing to give up job security and tie their fates to student achievement.
education  business  economics  incentive  reform  dc 
august 2008 by earth2marsh
Cory Doctorow: Filesharing deal will drive swapping underground | Technology | guardian.co.uk
The record industry will not be in charge of the characteristics of filesharing systems. They may get remunerated for their use, but they won't be able to dictate their functionality... If they want to cash in on filesharing, they'd better do it soon, bef
technology  surveillance  riaa  privacy  piracy  music  sharing  business  model 
august 2008 by earth2marsh
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