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“O’Reilly never raised outside capital; he funded his projects through profits. “There is a wonderful rigor in free-market economics,” he wrote in an early company manual. “When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.” (source)
Financial reform bill signed into law, eliminating SOX 404(b) internal control audit requirement for smaller reporting companies. Short version: Companies under 75M don’t have to spend 1M on reporting because Enron screwed everything up for all of us. Long version: here. A surprisingly pro-business bill in modern politics. It will create jobs. A good thing.
I emailed out to the company today’s quote of the day, something we do internally, with the three quotes below. But given how popular advice from 37 Signals is among some of my employees, I wanted to add some commentary (after the jump). And BTW, I definitely agree with these three quotes from Rework. “You [...]
Great preso in my opinion on job searching using social media from happykatie. Job Hunt 2.0 – using the Web to find a new career View more presentations from Katie Laird.
The company is 12 years old today. Wow. What a journey so far! A huge THANK YOU to our clients, our employees and all of our supporters over the last 12 years. Black swans do exist, and thrive, with a lot of help from their friends. THANK YOU! We’ll have a party after SchipulCon 09 [...]
From the New York Times Company Settles Case of Reviews It Faked Lifestyle Lift, a cosmetic surgery company, has reached a settlement with the State of New York over its attempts to fake positive consumer reviews on the Web, the New York attorney general’s office said Tuesday. The company had ordered employees to pretend they [...]
As a favor, made some revisions to the Saint Arnold Facebook Fan Page. Become a fan! FB.init("8dce7637eb601c6234b36f5619d9bb4a"); Saint Arnold Brewing Company on Facebook
The following are my notes from listening to Jim Collin‘s audio coaching on “getting the right people on the bus.” From Jim Collins: The Five Key Things to Consider When Looking for the Right People “What are the characteristics of the right people? Are there any generic characteristics we are looking for in the right [...]
Part of blogging, for me, it contextual in regards to “the times”. The current events are relevant to the medium. And this is our current reality in the United States of America. Unemployment hits 25-year high – jobless rate hits 8.1% in February as a record-high 12.5 million people are unemployed (3/6/2009) Merrill Lynch uncovers [...]
I just finished reading The Simple Truth About Your Business, Why Focused and Steady Beats Business at the Speed of Light. By Alex Brennan-Martin, a man I have had the privilege of meeting. And a man who has earned a good amount of my money from celebrating dinners at his Houston restaurant with my wife [...]
Recently finishing Outliers, I was really struck by the section on mitigated speech and airplane crashes. Gladwell‘s definition of mitigated speech on page 194 is: Mitigated speech – any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. In short, co-pilots may not communicate clearly with captains out of deference. They hint [...]
Reading Gladwell‘s book Outliers, and this quote grabbed my attention. He’d had to make his way alone, and no one — not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone. I have always disliked the phrase “self made man” because in my experience I have never [...]
kicking a futbol in the vineyards Originally uploaded by eschipul. I really like the three business planning questions at the bottom of this business planning article on the CNVE site: Do you have a clear goal for the ultimate outcome? Is your ultimate outcome reasonable? Can you articulate your goals in a way [...]