#business (408 links)
- Trouble at eBay - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
eBay's business is still booming [...] but there are signs that trouble may loom in the core business.
Enables social entrepreneurs, socially-minded people and socially-driven organisations to share, shape and use social insight to generate greater positive impact in the real world.
- Seesmic: Why it's so important to just frackin' start calacanis.com
Bottom line? As an entrepreneur you have to follow your nose and don't worry if you dump or change your original model. Evolution is the revolution. However, it you don't start you can't iterate.
- Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online's Bill Taylor discussionleader.hbsp.com
Looks like Zappos is doing things right.
- ongoing · Multi-Inflection-Point Alert tbray.org
We’re simultaneously at inflection points in programming languages and databases and network programming and processor architectures and Web development and IT business models and desktop environments. Did I miss anything?
- Be Good paulgraham.com
Either businesses aren't supposed to be like charities, and we've proven by reductio ad absurdum that one or both of the principles we began with is false. Or we have a new idea.
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium kk.org
"I have been researching new business models for artists working in the low end of the long tail. How can one make a living in a micro-niche? Is it even possible, particularly in this realm of no-cost copies?" Great, if dispiriting feedback from Robert Ri
Coudal used to generate revenues almost exclusively from client work. Anyone who’s done client work knows the inherent frustrations that come along with that. But instead of merely accepting these frustrations [...], Coudal searched for another path.
Startups that hire incorrectly fail. They don’t probably fail, or maybe fail. They just plain fail.
Some good, some bad.
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium kk.org
A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author - in other words, anyone producing works of art - needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.
- Creative Space Agency : Pages creativespaceagency.co.uk
- Company-Customer Pact Wiki ccpact.com
"The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster."
- Start Your Own Business : Journal : Mark Boulton markboulton.co.uk
A small article on making the leap to working for yourself
- russell davies: the magnificent seven and the double-deckers russelldavies.typepad.com
I think there are two ways to start / be a great creative business - 'the group of experts' (which I think of as The Magnificent Seven) and 'the group of friends' (which always makes me think of The Double-Deckers.)
- Kevin Kelly -- The Technium kk.org
When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can't be copied?
- Logic+Emotion: Innovation + The "Un-Agency" darmano.typepad.com
I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that.
- How To Raise Your Rates Without Losing Clients - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog freelanceswitch.com
If the fear of losing clients is holding you back from raising your rates, here are some pointers to help you broach the thorny subject of asking for more…
- Airbag - Fail. airbagindustries.com
After six years big business still has no idea what to do with this blog thing.
- FreeAgent Central - Money Management for UK Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants freeagentcentral.co.uk
A streamlined Money Management application for UK Freelancers, Contractors and Consultants who want to escape spreadsheet hell.
- The Invoice Machine | Create Invoices Easily And Free invoicemachine.com
Create free and beautiful PDF invoices in a snap.
Mostly obvious but always good to be reminded.
The Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has a clever system: she has a “pay what you can” policy with her downloadable songs, so fans can download them free — but her site also shows the average price her customers have paid for each track.
The digital skills that job seekers must have and that hiring organizations demand are varied, nuanced and cutting-edge.
- Managing design designcouncil.org.uk
Articles on how design is managed, with practical ideas and real-life examples of design being used for business success.
- Does Accessibility Cost More? - Accessites.org accessites.org
But why not charge more? Accessible, standards-complaint sites are quality sites, and quality sites, like quality cars, quality watches, and quality everything else, tend to be more expensive.
- advertising practitioner: angry blogging, finger wagging, happy happy joy joy russelldavies.typepad.com
Eventually, once every efficiency has been wrung from the web, they'll start to need those skills of imagination, craft and intuition that our funny little industry has so painstakingly acquired.
- 25 Reasons You Didn’t Get The Gig : Freelance Folder freelancefolder.com
Some personal observations, reasons I probably would click away, not hire someone, not call back.
- Cambrian House, Home of Crowdsourcing cambrianhouse.com
Crowdsourcing ideas, business, opinions & more...
Despite waves of consolidation across the ad-agency business, there remains a healthy bunch of independent digital shops doing everything from search optimization to building web interfaces to simply doing damn good creative.
- A List Apart: Articles: Findings From the Web Design Survey alistapart.com
The first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
- Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry Friends at FISTFULAYEN fistfulayen.com
A brief, twenty minute presentation to some friends in the music industry about why it’s time we pay closer attention to consumer needs when it comes to digital music.
Five alternative models for selling music, many of which are actually being tested by artists, entrepreneurs, and even the major record labels themselves.
- The Information Architect as Change Agent - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
How many projects have you worked on where the implementation team gave any consideration to the way people would be affected by the changes the new system would impose on them?
- Nine Inch Nails Help Seal Record Industry’s Coffin techcrunch.com
Highly popular Industrial Rock Band Nine Inch Nails have announced that as of today they are free agents, and will not be using the services of a record company in the future.
- BBC NEWS | Business | BBC Worldwide buys Lonely Planet news.bbc.co.uk
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has bought the travel guide publisher, Lonely Planet.
- Vitamin Features » Launching a UK Start-Up: Seven Lessons Learned thinkvitamin.com
Great ideas are only great if they fit a purpose, as such it is important to be clear from the outset what your site’s core user proposition is.
- Streamlining HP - Sam Lucente - Design - Blackbird fastcompany.com
"The "attitude," as it came to be known, was built around three core attributes: inspired, genuine, trusted. Innocuous as they seem, they were vivid enough for a group of designers to begin to articulate a common visual language."
Seek to be a double/triple/quadruple threat.
- Adactio: Journal - Microsoft in London adactio.com
Microsoft threw an invite-only gathering at its London offices: something about start-ups and Web 2.0. [...] Here are the notes I took…
- Web Worker 101: Estimating Basics « Web Worker Daily webworkerdaily.com
Whatever your skills as software developer or web designer (or whatever your web work career entails), you need to also understand the basics of estimating.