Archives for “Business”
Tweet How do you start a business? Go make a sale. Everything else is crap.
Tweet As the company has grown over the years, I have hit a number of tipping points that were unexpected and hurt the company. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a book that predicts these moments accurately and I know few people who have organically grown a 30+ employee 13 year old technology and [...]
Tweet Got a story for ya Ags! A long time ago when I was working at Circuit City as an Operations Manager I had days off during the week because I worked all weekend. Rachel, my wife, worked a normal job and the kids were in school with after school care so I’d get an [...]
Tweet This is a cross post. To comment go to the official version on the Chron here. Ed Schipul In 2006 Rick Perry passed an uneven business income tax in the state of Texas. This is in conflict with the Texas state constitution which states you can not have an income tax without a referendum. [...]
Tweet The most exciting thing for the schipul crew today, besides being able to serve our clients who are the reason we exist, was definitely the Monster cover DrupalRap. Created by ahughes3, dstagg and bpotter in conjunction with a conspiracy to reduce productivity for the entire company last week, I think they did an awesome [...]
Tweet “We use like twelve or thirteen kinds of different fish, but the thing is we have the same fish everyday,” says Thomas, now standing over one of many skate wings he must fillet into equal portions. “I know each fish in here. I know the body.” - The Fish Butcher
Tweet Edelman Trust Barometer 2011 Released. Highlights from Meg Strout’s blog followed by the slideshare. Meg’s summary: There’s been a decline in trust in “a person like myself” and regular employees, arguably because of “over-friending” Trust in credentialed experts (70%) and company technical specialists (64%) is soaring Informed publics (media consumers) need to hear things [...]
Tweet Looking for a new business idea? Try feeding your brain with this list of the best technical papers of the last few years. Via slashdot. imjustatomato writes “Top computer science conferences typically have an award given to the best paper submitted to that conference. This web page compiles the best paper awards for 16 conferences since [...]
Tweet “This has nothing to do with safety – 95 percent of these inspections, searches, shoe removals and pat-downs are ridiculously unnecessary. The only reason we continue to do this is that people are too cowed to even question the absurd taboo against profiling – when the profile of the airline attacker is narrow, concrete, [...]
Tweet It’s not like Microsoft didn’t foresee the changes ahead. With a staff of almost 90,000, the company has many of the tech world’s smartest minds on its payroll, and has incubated projects in a wide range of fields that later took off. Experiments like Courier (tablets), HailStorm/Passport (digital identity), and Windows Media Center (content in [...]
Tweet “A domain name doesn’t win you a market; launching second or fifth or tenth doesn’t lose you a market. You can’t blame your competitors or your board or the lack of or excess of investment. Focus on what really matters: making users happy with your product as quickly as you can, and helping them [...]
Tweet There are three rules to becoming a billionaire in business. First the business rules, then the story: Sell at a profit. You have to sell at a profit. You can’t sell at a loss and make it up in volume. Any fool can reach 10M in sales by simply selling $10 for $1. Granted [...]
Tweet The false axiom “work harder not smarter” came up in conversation today. Which reminded me of this paragraph I did on the book Rework called When to Apply Business Advice: Sometimes advice is populist, but there is a logical flaw. A company who follows the infamous “work smarter not harder” quickly falls to a [...]
Tweet “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)
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet 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. [...]
Tweet 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.
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet As a favor, made some revisions to the Saint Arnold Facebook Fan Page. Become a fan! Saint Arnold Brewing Company on Facebook
Tweet 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 [...]
Tweet 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 [...]