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- Doing Business In Japan | Kalzumeus Software kalzumeus.com
How to do what you love and make good money 2016-12-19 The problem: People with a well-paying job ask my advice because they want to quit to become full-time…
- Opendoor: A Startup Worth Emulating stratechery.com
I suppose I appreciate the efficiency with which Techcrunch expressed its skepticism for tech’s latest unicorn, Opendoor; it’s right there in the headline:…
- How to start a company with no free time | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
It has also made me a more efficient programmer by saving time rewriting because I do most of my mistakes before I start writing anything down. I want to move…
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- The Three Infrastructure Mistakes Your Company Must Not Make firstround.com
When Avi Freedman was getting ready to graduate Temple University in 1992, there was no way to buy internet service in Philadelphia. Literally. If you wanted to…
Most payment disputes can be easily avoided with a clear invoicing process or quickly resolved with a gentle reminder – but what can you do if your client…
- Using React is a Business Decision, Not a Technology Choice — Future of Front End blog.formidable.com
Summary : React is a library for building composable user interfaces. There are many other tools like Angular, Backbone, Knockout and Ember that do similar…
- How Boots went rogue | Aditya Chakrabortty theguardian.com
T ony was talking about how he wound up getting paid to care less – less about his sick patients, less about the specialism that demanded years of study, less…
- The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- A “web designer” or “web developer” used to be a generalist who wrote HTML, CSS, and some jQuery. Now there’s a demand for specialization: a UI/UX designer…
- Moving to Singapore blog.ghost.org
In the next couple of months we’ll be reincorporating the Ghost Foundation in Singapore and closing down all operations in the UK. This is easily the biggest…
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About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp : A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly…
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- HMRC Employment Status Manual hmrc.gov.uk
- Moog Music Gives Employees More Control nytimes.com
At the Moog synthesizer factory in Asheville, N.C., on Tuesday, Michael Adams, the company’s owner and chief executive, wanted to share some life-changing news…
- Patrick McKenzie — "Leveling Up" · Double Your Audience doubleyouraudience.com
(This article is part of the MicroConf 2015 Recap . Want to explore more talks from the event? Go back to the Recap Hub ) Main Concept Ship something! It…
- We Don’t Sell Saddles Here — Medium medium.com
We know that we have built something which is genuinely useful: almost any team which adopts Slack as their central application for communication would be…
- Employee travel expenses - FreeAgent freeagent.com
- How the EU VAT rules make EU startups and digital businesses uncompetitive in a global market. rachelandrew.co.uk
Unless you have been residing under a rock for the last month (and I’m starting to wish I had been) you’ll be aware of the impending EU VAT Place of Supply change. Much of the noise has been made by those businesses who will be forced into VAT Registration because of it, and rightly so. However, for those of us who are VAT Registered and so must update our systems to cope, the issues of implementation loom large.
- Russell Davies: clarity as a business model russelldavies.typepad.com
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After running a service that delivers new work opportunities to designers and developers , I’ve come to realize most of us do portfolios wrong. Your online…
- What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap | Kalzumeus Software kalzumeus.com
- You're Better Off Being A Fast Follower Than An Originator businessinsider.com
First Movers tend to launch without really fully understanding customer problems or the product features that solve those problems. They guess at their business model and then do premature, loud and aggressive Public Relations hype and early company launches and quickly burn through their cash. This is a great strategy if there’s a bubble occurring in your market or you are going to bet it all on flipping your company for a sale. Otherwise the jury is in. There’s no advantage.
- Everything you need to know about Income Protection Insurance - Freelance Advisor freelanceadvisor.co.uk · Archived on
- Lostmy.name lostmy.name
Beautifully illustrated, wonderfully written and created especially for every child, this is bespoke storytelling like never before
- Lifestyle Programming successfulsoftware.net
If you aren’t going to be satisfied with anything less than being a multi-millionaire living in a hollowed out volcano, then an all-or-nothing, VC-backed start-up crap shoot is probably your only option. And there are markets where you have very little chance of success without venture capital. But really, how much money do you need? Is money going to make you happy? How many meals can you eat in a day? How many cars can you drive?
- Win-win consulting medium.com
Ideas on how to survive unpleasant projects as a consultant
The people who generate all the ideas and work are evolving and realising that they themselves could be reaping the rewards rather than the agency.
Agencies on the other hand are happy to keep trying to live in a world which is ceasing to exist. Clinging onto the same ideas, tools, and ways of working with CEOs who are either oblivious to the current mindset or too frightened to instigate change. It’s the perfect storm of increasing entrepreneurialism, decreasing loyalty and an industry reveling in mediocrity.
- The Journey of Launching My First Product, “To Do Cal” | Chris Norstrom chrisnorstrom.com
Moral of the Story: Start Small, You Can Make Massive Mistakes and Still Be Ok.
Much more in here than my poorly-chosen quote would suggest.
- 57 startup lessons defmacro.org
A mixed bag, mostly useful when VC-talk filter engaged.
- front-end-ops smashingmagazine.com
_thenittygritty: Front-End Ops by @SlexAxton http://t.co/MUtey1gK2H
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- The Happy Startup School – Helping entrepreneurs realise their dreams, one startup at a time thehappystartupschool.com
One of the mistakes I see entrepreneurs make is they move to business model before locking down strategy. The way I like to think about this is get the product right first, then lock down the strategy of the business, then figure out the business model.
One of the best articles I've read so far this year.
My definition of a good solution to a complex problem is one that solves the immediate problem, is built to last and generates more potential than it uses.
The more I think about complex problems, the more I get convinced that the built to last part is critical. Almost all failures are caused by not aiming for durability.
The spectre of competition means that at work, school, everywhere we think we have to work/study/run as fast as we possibly can, all the time. But, says Bjergegaard, much of that is counterproductive. "We get tired, we don't work as well under constant stress. We don't always need to be there anyway – many of my best ideas have come when I'm running, or on holiday."