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Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss? -Full Post | The Trichordist
"Actually that’s the number one “new model” that the Digerati suggest. Sell T-shirts at your shows to make money! This despite the fact it’s not new. Bands have been selling t-shirts at live shows since the early 1970s. Recording albums to sell a few t-shirts is a terrible way to make money. Thanks for the advice but no thanks. Plus t-shirts are just as bootlegable as music."

There's a lot wrong with this article but there's also a lot right with it, too.
music  business  from instapaper
6 days ago by ohskylab
Net Promoter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A management tool that can be used to gauge the loyalty of a firm's customer relationships." Mmmm.
business  marketing  research  nps 
11 weeks ago by ohskylab
Signs You Aren’t Really Building a Minimum Viable Product | 22 idea street
a lot of the value of an MVP is testing the risky assumptions every startup has
web  business  mvp  from instapaper
january 2012 by ohskylab
Fetch — The easiest way to sell downloads from any website, social network, Goodsie shop, or Shopify store.
"Sell digital goods such as music, videos, photos, e-books, PDF's, or software from any website, blog, social network, Goodsie shop, or Shopify store." OK then.
business  ecommerce  shopping  web 
november 2011 by ohskylab
Delegate or die: the self-employed trap. | Derek Sivers
"You're so busy, doing everything yourself. You know you need help, but to find and train someone would take more time than you have! So you keep working harder, until you break."
business  management  startup  entrepreneurship  from delicious
january 2011 by ohskylab
Music Ally | Blog Archive » Spotify reveals €30m payout to rightsholders in 2010
Unexpected. "In Sweden, both Sony and UMG are making more money from Spotify than from any other retailer – online or offline."
spotify  music  business 
october 2010 by ohskylab
Bread and Circuses: The State of Web App Startups «
"I would like to propose that technologists apply their ample skill to solving the real problems of humanity, not just the perceived problems of their very privileged social set. And for my good friends at several of the aforementioned startups, I challenge you to find a way to solve a social or human problem with your app."
business  startup  society 
october 2010 by ohskylab
Third Door Office & Playspace
"Third Door combines professional, flexible, co-working office space, a communal social area and fully equipped Ofsted regulated childcare for pre-school children." Clever.
coworking  business  office  london 
september 2010 by ohskylab
The most effective debt collecting email I ever wrote | For A Beautiful Web
I like this. "A quick note to say that I am really disappointed that you have still not paid me the [..] that I'm owed for the work I did for you. In the grand scheme of things, it's not a lot of money, but actually I think that this is more a matter of respect."
collecting  debt  money  freelancing  work  business  finance  invoicing 
september 2010 by ohskylab
The Management Myth - Magazine - The Atlantic
"The world of management theorists remains exempt from accountability. In my experience, for what it’s worth, consultants monitored the progress of former clients about as diligently as they checked up on ex-spouses (of which there were many). Unless there was some hope of renewing the relationship (or dating a sister company), it was Hasta la vista, baby. And why should they have cared? Consultants’ recommendations have the same semantic properties as campaign promises: it’s almost freakish if they are remembered in the following year."
philosophy  management  mba  consulting  business 
september 2010 by ohskylab
Rands In Repose: How to Run a Meeting
"There are two useful types of meetings: alignment and creation. Briefly, alignment meetings are tactical communication exchanges that rarely dive into the strategic. These are fine meetings that have a weekly cadence, and while there are lots of ways to screw up these meetings, their tactical repetition often keeps them on the rails. Creation meetings — diving into solving a hard problem — involve, well, more creativity. Each hard problem requires a unique solution, and finding that solution is where creation meetings can go bad."
communication  business  meetings  productivity  rands  work  management 
august 2010 by ohskylab
What Happened to Yahoo
"So which companies need to have a hacker-centric culture? Which companies are "in the software business" in this respect? As Yahoo discovered, the area covered by this rule is bigger than most people realize. The answer is: any company that needs to have good software."
yahoo  culture  technology  business  paulgraham 
august 2010 by ohskylab
sanity comments on Is MBA important for a programmer to start a Tech Company?
"The key idea here that most entrepreneurs miss is that you really need to vet your own ideas. Many aspiring entrepreneurs dream up an idea, and then stick to it doggedly, either because its the only idea they have, or they find it technically interesting. They don't want to discover that it won't work, so they don't try to figure it out! This is a bit like writing some code, and then not testing it because you really don't want to discover that its buggy."
business  reddit  via:paul.irish  mba  work  startup 
august 2010 by ohskylab
MuckWork - we do your dirty work
From Derek Sivers: "assistants to do your uncreative dirty work, so you can do what only you can do".
business  dereksivers  support  outsourcing  music 
august 2010 by ohskylab
The scariest pricing idea ever. That works. | The Freelancery
"Here’s a pricing technique that sounds, at first, like the dumbest newbie move of all time. Call it ‘fill-in-the-blank’ invoicing. Or ‘pay what you want’ pricing. The notion is, you do the work first, then let the client decide how much to pay for it." Heavy caveats.
via:ihart  business  pricing  money  freelancing  work 
july 2010 by ohskylab
Organic Startup Ideas
"The best way to come up with startup ideas is to ask yourself the question: what do you wish someone would make for you?"
paulgraham  business  ideas  startup  entrepreneurship  creativity  strategy 
july 2010 by ohskylab
Invest in Hackney
"Details and links to managed workspace providers in Hackney."
hackney  offices  business  work 
june 2010 by ohskylab
Why trivia is so important | Life and style | The Guardian
""This has come to be known as the Colour of the Bike Shed Phenomenon: the time spent on any item will be in inverse proportion to its cost and importance. Relentlessly, the trivial squeezes out the non-trivial [...] Similar effects – where small stuff preoccupies us because it's small – course through our lives [...] I fear that something related is also what's transpiring whenever I get that delusional feeling of achievement from having powered through multiple unimportant items on my to-do list, leaving untouched the few tasks that really matter. Taken together, Parkinson's two laws amount to a wry but certainly not trivial warning: the work we do expands to fill the time available – and, half the time, it's not even the most important work."
work  business  trivia  gtd 
may 2010 by ohskylab
On the pricing of service work. | This User’s Experience
"An interesting (though obvious, after-the-fact) consequence of increasing our hourly rate, is that the customers that were left tended to be exactly the type of customers we’ve always wanted to work for — they appreciate, value and demand high quality, and are doing interesting things."
business  rates  service  pricing  money 
april 2010 by ohskylab
Grand Union sells for £15m as Jaimes Leggett quits for Ogilvy - advertising news - Campaign
"Grand Union, the full-service digital advertising agency, has completed its sale to the digital network FullSIX in a deal estimated to be worth £15 million."
gu  stalking  friends  agencies  business  advertising  grandunion  fullsix 
april 2010 by ohskylab
Is John Lewis the best company in Britain to work for? | Business | The Guardian
"At a time when the limits of the more traditional capitalist model of shareholder ownership stand cruelly exposed, John Lewis's ongoing success is increasingly prompting all three main political parties to point to it as a possible template – for other companies, for schools, hospitals, even local councils."
via:markrocky  business  capitalism  democracy  economics  johnlewis 
march 2010 by ohskylab
The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend) - Charlie's Diary
"What I really need is some kind of subscription model that makes the disintermediating depradations of Google strictly irrelevant. So this leads me to ask what new business models exist that I can monetize and that aren't going to (a) be devalued by Google, (b) undercut by infinite free bandwidth, or (c) require an old dog to learn new skills (like cat-emulation, or screenwriting)?"
business  advertising  google  books  money  content  economics  newspapers  publishing  charliestross 
january 2010 by ohskylab
Alex Payne — Don't Be A Hero
"Heroes are damaging to a team because they become a crutch. As soon as you have someone who’s always willing to work at all hours, the motivation from the rest of the team to produce reliable, trouble-free software drops. The hero is a human patch."
productivity  business  programming  career  projectmanagement  heroes  antipatterns 
january 2010 by ohskylab
ongoing · Doing It Wrong
"What I’m writing here is the single most important take-away from my Sun years, and it fits in a sentence: The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don’t know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups."
web  development  business  strategy  projectmanagement  analysis  timbray 
january 2010 by ohskylab
8 Lessons From the Creativity and Technology Conference - Advertising Age - Digital
"Bring tech-heads into creative conversations early to color communication ideas with what's possible in web development." But don't call them tech-heads.
business  advertising  technology  digital  creativity  planning  adage 
november 2009 by ohskylab
Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web - paulcarvill.com
"A [front end developer] is responsible for everything that sits on the client side of the web stack — the content, presentation and behaviour layers. Few other roles touch so many other key aspects of a business as does a [front end developer]’s." Amen to that.
web  career  frontend  development  business  advocacy 
september 2009 by ohskylab
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Monkey Boy's three-legged race
A classic quote from last time round: "The Borg-Yahoo merger won't work. Here's why. It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster."
quotes  business  google  yahoo  microsoft  fakestevejobs 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
"When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in. Plus you have to remember to go to the meeting. That's no problem for someone on the manager's schedule. There's always something coming on the next hour; the only question is what. But when someone on the maker's schedule has a meeting, they have to think about it."
development  software  business  productivity  collaboration  programming  culture  management  paulgraham 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Ryan Carson: How to Measure the Health of your Business at a Glance - Industry Updates - Entrepreneur - Virgin
"The way we do this is by having a 1-hour meeting every Tuesday morning where my manager presents a PDF report that outlines these figures and colours the report either Red (we're in trouble and we better do something about it), Yellow (We're in danger, but it's fixable) or Green (we're on track to achieve our goals)."
business  productivity  management  finance  process  accounting 
july 2009 by ohskylab
10 Weird Ways to Distribute Music | Epicenter | Wired.com
At no. 1, "Max Tundra’s Limited Edition Kosher Chicken Soup". Ah, Ben.
music  business  marketing  art  ideas  creative  daft 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Seth's Blog: The art and skill of working with bureaucrats
"Have you noticed that most airports feature the same restaurants? It's not an accident. The people who run these chains have organized themselves to be good at dealing with municipal organizations. Same thing goes for design firms, creative firms, accountants etc. that deal with large corporations. In my experience, 40% of the fee goes for the work and 60% goes to pay for the do-overs, staffing, project management and hassle that comes from working from big organizations and committees. A lot of small businesses get burned when they charge just the 40% and the client expects that the other 60% comes for free. It doesn't."
business  strategy  advice  sethgodin  quotes 
july 2009 by ohskylab
Engineers Are The Best Deal - So Stock Up On Them
"Software engineers today are about 200-400% more productive than software engineers were 10 years ago because of open source software, better programming tools, common libraries, easier access to information, better education, and other factors. This means that one engineer today can do what 3-5 people did in 1999." And so say all of us.
development  productivity  business  strategy  engineering 
june 2009 by ohskylab
My M&M's® - Personalized Chocolate Candy Messages
Custom M&M's. Feels like we've done the custom sweets to death already but you never know.
business  shopping  marketing  advertising  food  ecommerce  customization  chocolate 
june 2009 by ohskylab
Dear Dustin Curtis | Dustin Curtis
"If the UX architect at AA.com is actually pretty good, then why does the site suck so much?"
design  usability  ux  business  process  culture  americanairlines 
june 2009 by ohskylab
Report Paints a Painful View of Ad Agencies « FUEL LINES Fueling Ad Agency New Business Through Social Media
"Forrester Research believes today’s ad agencies are not well-structured to take on tomorrow’s marketing challenges, needing to move from making messages to establishing community connections." What, really?
advertising  strategy  agencies  business  social  community  via:eldret_99 
june 2009 by ohskylab
GigPark
"Discover the trusted service people your friends use "
web  business  social  community  recommendations 
may 2009 by ohskylab
Launch a Business, Not a Side Project | Think Vitamin
"I’ve seen a lot of web apps launched recently which haven’t succeeded. They’re not failing miserably, and they’re not wild successes. They’re just kind of puttering along, sapping just enough resources to be a problem, but not succeeding enough to really take off. The majority of these apps were built by small web design firms or freelancers who bought into the dream without really understanding how much time it takes to make an app succeed."
business  marketing  startup  entrepreneurship  innovation 
may 2009 by ohskylab
Kickstarter
"A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers..."
design  music  business  social  work  creativity  startup  ideas  entrepreneurship  fundraising  funding  art 
may 2009 by ohskylab
The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company
"Online purveyors of high quality crimefighting merchandise."
top  business  shopping  art  fun  store  superheroes 
may 2009 by ohskylab
Shopp — plugin ecommerce for wordpress
An e-commerce plugin that adds a feature-rich online store to your WordPress-powered website or blog."
business  wordpress  ecommerce  web  plugins  store 
may 2009 by ohskylab
FAQs - Change Of Company Name Resolution | Companies House
"How do I change my company’s name?" Why, by passing a special resolution at a general meeting or by having all member sign a written resolution, then paying a tenner to Companies House.
business  company  names 
may 2009 by ohskylab
My Name is E
"Enables you to collect your accounts - on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and every other network of your choice - in one spot, and share them in real life by using any mobile phone or Connector."
tools  business  social  mobile  iphone  sync 
april 2009 by ohskylab
MEAT CARDS
"Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients: MEAT AND LASERS."
business  food  cards  meat  top  via:simonw 
april 2009 by ohskylab
Interview: Mr Best Buy goes looking for bargains in Britain | Business | The Observer
"[Bob Willett] says it is wrong for analysts to focus on store openings, as the internet is key to growth - web sales are rising faster here than in the US. "Up to a third of our business will be done on the web, so you don't need hundreds of stores," he says."
bestbuy  business  uk  ce  retail 
april 2009 by ohskylab
CoTweet™ - How business does Twitter
"Designed for businesses using Twitter to engage existing customers and attract new ones, CoTweet is a comprehensive Twitter business platform that supports both proactive marketing communication and response-driven customer support." Wow, way to make it sound really boring.
tools  business  social  marketing  collaboration  twitter 
april 2009 by ohskylab
Social-Media Pioneer Pearson Leaves Dell for Blog Council - Advertising Age - Digital
"If you're Home Depot, and you've got 150,000 employees, half of whom are on Facebook, you had better be thinking about this. Social media is no longer experimental."
business  social  quotes  dell  blogcouncil  via:markrocky 
april 2009 by ohskylab
Getting Real: Have an Enemy (by 37signals)
"When we decided to create project management software, we knew Microsoft Project was the gorilla in the room. Instead of fearing the gorilla, we used it as a motivator. We decided Basecamp would be something completely different, the anti-Project."
quotes  strategy  startup  37signals  business 
march 2009 by ohskylab
Rollo & Grady Interview // Terry McBride - Los Angeles Music Blog
"Digital had been seeping into our world for about three years and the Napster effect was apparent. Being a small company and working directly with artists, we could really hear and see what was starting to happen. It was a realization that fighting it wouldn’t work; understanding it and being able to grow it was what was going to work. It was a psychological shift for us."
music  business  marketing  nettwerk  interview 
march 2009 by ohskylab
Made By Many » Blog Archive » “What Is a Social-Media Agency?”
"The old digital agency model is not helpful today. Instead, the industry can learn a lot from social start-ups (like Vimeo - who I am in love with, or SoundCloud) and work as fast as possible, being entrepreneurial, pragmatic, and nimble [...] People in traditional agencies - ‘old new media’ and our cousins in advertising - say they find all of the above quite challenging - which is weird because these agencies are stuffed with really smart people."
agencies  via:markrocky  business  culture  entrepreneurship  top  social 
january 2009 by ohskylab
Preoccupations - Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time - NYTimes.com
"Time is the most perishable good in the world, and it is not replenishable. You can’t earn an extra hour to use on a busy day. Nonetheless, we usually have a vague feeling that there is plenty of time — somewhere in the future — so we waste it now and carelessly steal time from our families, friends or ourselves when we come up short at the end of a workday and need to stay an extra hour."
quotes  business  productivity  top  management  culture  psychology  nytimes  meetings 
january 2009 by ohskylab
CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The Designers Republic
Designers Republic goes under. "I’ve never liked that agency model - it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order to service bigger clients. I’m not being ungrateful to the people who ran the business side at DR – it wasn’t their fault. I’m glad we did it - it took getting there to make me realise that it wasn’t where I wanted to be."
via:blech  design  business  uk  agencies  art  culture  creativity  thedesignersrepublic  top 
january 2009 by ohskylab
Contemplating the Consumerist sale and the adpocalypse
"What advertisers buy when they purchase a magazine or TV ad is slice of the attention of some subset of that media object's audience [...] A web page, in contrast, is typically festooned with hyperlinked visual objects that fall all over themselves in competing to take you elsewhere immediately once you're done consuming whatever it is that you came to that page for."
attention  advertising  online  business  trends  web 
january 2009 by ohskylab
this is sippey.typepad.com: project management lingo
“Is there Project Management Lingo?” Yes. Yes there is. My favourite in the comments: "What Would McGyver Do?"
projectmanagement  business  language  jargon  humour  via:russelldavies 
december 2008 by ohskylab
Rumblefish | Sonic Branding and Music Licensing
Find and license music for any project—TV shows and advertisements, movies, websites, video games, podcasts, and more."
music  business  mp3  audio  licensing 
november 2008 by ohskylab
adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » One way for surviving the downturn - delineate your business value (#7 and #10 in a series of 16)
"By understanding a business’ problems or opportunities, we can figure out what behaviors we’re hoping to engage, and then connect that behavior to a financial outcome."
business  ux  via:alastc  roi  design 
november 2008 by ohskylab
EMI's £700k taxi bill • The Register
"The report says that costs at EMI Music were out of control, and that reporting structures were so dysfunctional, management struggled to find out the true picture."
music  emi  business 
october 2008 by ohskylab
NO2ID :: View topic - They want my passport at work! ....ADVICE??!?!??!
"I have been asked by my work place to provide my passport." Not just employers; looks like it's becoming standard practice for recruiters to ask even if trading as a limited company. Something to do with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
via:scrubadub  security  employment  business  work  recruitment 
october 2008 by ohskylab
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