6 days ago
veen : Information Arbitrage: Monitor110: A Post Mortem - " I worked with a terrific group of young, exceptionally bright people who believed in the vision. Ultimately, we failed. But why did we fail, and what could we have done differently? "
Linkorama : Monitor110: A Post Mortem - While we certainly made more than seven mistakes during the nearly four-year life of Monitor110, I think these top the list.
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8 days ago
veen : How to Change the World: $4,824.13 for Legal Fees
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8 days ago
veen : How We Built an iPhone App for $4873.92 | None | Gifter
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8 days ago
veen : How To Build A Web App in Four Days For $10,000 (Say Hello To Matt)
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deusx : MASTERMIND: Curtis Sullivan - "Even though our financials were immaculate they just didn't 'get' what a comic shop was and so they wouldn't rent to us. We tried to rent the Wizzywig location near State Street (now closed) but they told us they didn't want 'our kind of business.'&
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17 days ago
deusx : I had that idea years ago! - (37signals) - "Ideas on their own are just not that important. It’s incredibly rare that someone comes up with an idea so unique, so protectable that the success story writes itself. Most ideas are nothing without execution."
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Jeremy Zawodny : Toggl - Time tracking - that works. - Toggl - Time tracking - that works.: lightweight online task tracking
philgyford : Toggl - Time tracking - that works. - Free thing for tracking time spent on different tasks. Hated being made to do this at one place I worked, but still might be handy for freelancing.
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dbow : 37signals Workplace Experiments - 37signals experiments with ideas to make the company an especially enjoyable place to work, including Fridays off and company credit cards for discretionary spending
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dbow : Fire the workaholics - Liked David's response, and why a culture of workaholics is a bad thing for business..
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2 month ago
philgyford : Blinksale | The easiest way to send invoices online - Nice looking online invoice recording and sending app. I'm not busy enough to need it right now, but maybe one day... (via Ben Hammersley)
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2 month ago
philgyford : Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online's Bill Taylor - Much linked-to article about an online shoe-selling firm and how it's a great place to work. They offer new recruits $1000 to quit, in order to only keep people who are keen. (via Kottke)
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2 month ago
philgyford : Going Solo: Stowe Boyd - From The Far Side To The Dark Side: A Crash Course In Business Realities For Soloists. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos - A guide to freelancing. A lot that bears no relation to my experience, but I think I've been lucky at making a go of it without much planning (so far). Still interesting and worth a read.
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3 month ago
wearehugh : Circuit City Gives Up the Fight - no one will miss you when you're gone
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3 month ago
veen : Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - GigaOM - “imagination-based companies to succeed in the long run, making money can’t be the focus.”
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3 month ago
Linkorama : If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - Nice to have lawyers to blog these things for you. Quite interesting analysis.
Andy Baio : Marc Andreessen's guide to the Microsoft-Yahoo hostile takeover - the best explanation I've seen [via]
gleuschk : blog.pmarca.com: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo - very clear explanation
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4 month ago
nelson : Startups and acquisition - Well known VC points out that startups almost always suffer after an acquisition. Is a liquid private equity market the solution?
deusx : A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity - "But who am I to complain? We got paid right? So sit down and shut up. Except I am also a user of these services. I see what happens when a company gets purchased."
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4 month ago
veen : adaptive path » blog » Starting the CEO Search - "we’re announcing today that we’re on the lookout for a CEO to add to our executive team."
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4 month ago
jonhicks : Sharpenr - A blog about starting and running web based businesses
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dbow : 37signals Workplace Experiments - 37signals experiments with ideas to make the company an especially enjoyable place to work, including Fridays off and company credit cards for discretionary spending
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4 month ago
dbow : Fire the workaholics - Liked David's response, and why a culture of workaholics is a bad thing for business..
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4 month ago
veen : Redeye VC: I Don't Know... - Josh Kopelman on the confidence of not knowing something. I feel the same way when I talk to designers - You don't need to know every answer, just assure me you know how you might find out.
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4 month ago
adamrg : Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs - Well, I suppose that my interests had to align with WalMart eventually. I suppose that's not even true, I just buy off AmazonMP3.
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4 month ago
veen : How Fast Can This Thing Go, Anyway? - Inc. Magazine - "Zipcar was a classic founder-run company--long on passion, short on cash. Until a new CEO came aboard, gave the business a seven-step tune-up, and put the pedal to the metal."
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plasticbag : The most detailed coverage I've seen of Fire Eagle is from Venture Beat. I talked to them a month or so before we launched. - If you're interested in Fire Eagle, I think this is the article I've read with the most substance.
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