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Highrise Tags Export: Docs out of date in their own Help system
Keeping out of date and inaccurate information in your help documents is just wrong. Case in point: 37signals Highrise export.
Feedback/team building tool: Rypple
How should you get feedback from your employees. It depends on organisation size. Small groups: just ask. Larger: have a look at Rypple.
bcToolkit vs Freshbooks for Basecamp reporting: nod to Freshbooks for reports plus invoicing
Should you use bcToolkit? How important is reporting. Are there any more affordable alternatives to bcToolkit?
Why we don’t want VC: How seeking funding can destroy your business and your life
Rand Fishkin’s three months in VC hell in 2009 and how he woke up out of the nightmare and made SEOmoz profitable instead. Goal: build a better world.
37signals suite review: Is it worth upgrading? First fix the suite integration and syncing guys…
Is it worth upgrading to the 37signals suite from Basecamp? Really, it depends how much sync you need and how much integration you want.
When good suppliers go bad, or why we don’t recommend Cartika Hosting anymore
When a business expands too fast and loses sight of serving customers to focus on growth instead, the results aren’t pretty. Here’s our experience at Cartika.
Verizon Hands Consumers Back $50 million in bad charges or Why government oversight of private enterprise is necessary
Alas, without civil oversight, private enterprise is not an invisible helping hand, but the ripper’s glove on your throat.
How much is a good logo worth? Case study: Agile Pain Relief
Does a strong logo make a difference to how much you can charge or getting the business at all? We think so. Here’s a case study of a homemade log vs designer.
FreeDB or Musicbrainz: Why is there no software to upload album info in OS X?
Gracenote stole the CDDB from its contributors. FreeDB and Musicbrainz appeared. But why is it almost impossible to use them on OS X?
Paypal sucks but so does Digital River and Google Checkout is no great shakes either
Between 10% commission rates and Paypal’s arbitrarily account freezing, how should a small business or software process transactions?
Paying to pitch to VC’s or Angel Investors
Don’t get sucked into paying to pitch VC’s. Use your head and get there on your own resources.
37Signals, Basecamp URL change and not giving a damn about your customers
37signals abandons white label Basecamp betraying original subscribers: open source self-hosted Basecamp replacement on the way.
Typepad Export Options: Congenial Lies from SixApart’s Anil Dash
The Wizard of Oz ends happily…the Wicked Witch melts. Why can’t this story end happily, why no working export for Typepad?
Work Life Balance from Jack Welch: A Review of Winning
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Jack Welch’s Spartan philosophy of leaving the crippled employees on the mountaintop – is it worth it?
The Key to Vaynerchuk’s Success Online
Want to succeed online? Start by letting go…”You are better off letting the world run wild. You cannot completely control your message any more. Be as authentic and awesome as possible or you will fall like the Berlin Wall.”
Paying B2B writers | Reward Models for Online Publishing
How to reward online writers and encourage them not to write long wordy boring articles, but exciting, inspiring and controversial pieces.
Outsourcing in Europe
The very high euro – which seems to be carrying the local currencies with it – does make European outsourcing pretty much a local sport at this point.
Low returns, safe investment in Tech? No, it’s the dawn of a new golden age
Tech companies are bigger than banks. Has tech gone stale as an investment arena? No way – we are just at the start of a new tech business renaissance. But it’s a paradigm shift – to profit you have to get with the new program.
What is an idea worth?
Short essay about what an idea is worth. The right idea could be worth $361 million per person – or nothing.