#business (408 links)
- AGILE IN ACTION: Fixed-price contracts don't work think-box.co.uk
If you think it's possible to identify a single date, somewhere off in the future, upon which you'll receive everything you've requested and for a fixed price, then you're setting yourself up for failure and disappointment.
- 3. Your history is interesting at New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
There is, by my estimation something of the order of twenty, possibly up to fifty times as much money to be made in the retrieval and reissue of lost gems as there is in releasing new recordings by new artists.
- Coding Horror: Can Your Team Pass The Elevator Test? codinghorror.com
Ask them what they're doing. Then ask them why they're doing it, and keep asking until you get to a reason your customers would understand.
- @Second Chance Tuesday: Last.fm - the "conviction entrepreneurs" | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | Guardian Unlimited blogs.guardian.co.uk
The first time Martin Stiksel and Felix Miller, Last.fm's founders, have spoken publicly on the acquisition of their site since it was purchased by CBS in May
- TuneCore: Welcome tunecore.com
TuneCore has arrangements with leading digital music retailers that let us place your music in their online stores and subscription services. You get 100% of the money that your music earns.
- Founder's Syndrome: How Corporations Suffer -- and Can Recover managementhelp.org
This syndrome occurs when, rather than working toward its overall mission, the organization operates primarily according to the personality of a prominent person in the organization, for example, the founder, board chair/president, chief executive, etc
- Vitamin Features » Getting a startup right the second time thinkvitamin.com
We all [...] hope for the quick success of a Twitter instead of the starting and stopping of a flickr (started as a game). ImThere is a startup that started and stopped, and David Gorman documents their eventual success.
- Test Early » Fire your best people…reward the lazy ones testearly.com
It’s the difference between troubleshooters and troublepreventors.
- Guide to Low Cost, High-Impact Websites | Adrian Wajsbrem Blog blog.wajsbrem.com
These tips are for kickstarting a low cost and high impact website, however some tips are general principals rather than recommendations for all cases.
- Are Big Ad Agencies So Clueless That Corporations Should Avoid Them? businessweek.com
I've been spending much time with ad agencies and focus groups lately and can only conclude that--with some exceptions--they are mostly clueless.
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- Digital Web Magazine - Contract Killers digital-web.com
The tricky situation of quoting for web design and development projects, and the various types of contracts you can agree upon.
- Secrets to Amazon's success - (37signals) 37signals.com
"High Scalability offers some secrets to Amazon’s success based on interviews and writings of early employees." Some great tips in here.
- How To Bootstrap Your Startup readwriteweb.com
"What skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation you'll need, and much
- Not-Just-For-Profit notjustforprofit.org
- Jackson Fish Market » What are we doing? jacksonfish.com
We will generate and launch multiple products. Does that mean we have no focus? If you have to ask that question, you’re still not getting it.
- Managing Humans - An Introduction managinghumans.com
This book isn't just about management, it's about creating places where people can comfortably build stuff.
easyOffice, owned and operated by the easyGroup, will open in High Street Kensington in London on 28 November 2007, and is already taking bookings.
- The wiki way | Technology | Guardian Unlimited guardian.co.uk
Don Tapscott, the author of an eye-opening new book called Wikinomics, says that we have barely begun to imagine how the internet will change the way we live and work.
- adaptive path » an interview with flickr's eric costello adaptivepath.com
From 2005. Background.
- How Top Bloggers Earn Money images.businessweek.com
It may very well be that Second Life is over-hyped or ill-conceived for business purposes. Even if so, however, it’s not due to the five provably bogus claims.
The crux of the piece is that despite the hype, real life businesses are closing down their Second Life outposts due to little to no interest in them.
- Starting out: Creatives clued in to 'Generation C' | Small Business | Business | Money | Telegraph telegraph.co.uk
"It was a leap of faith. By mid-2006, Matt Webb and Jack Schulze had been meandering along, doing a few jobs together and talking about "crazy ideas"."
- Vitamin Features » Winning work’s a pitch thinkvitamin.com
Client wants a website, Agency wants a client, but Client wants something for nothing and to see other agencies. What’s Agency to do?
- Sleep Overrated sleepoverrated.tumblr.com
Podcast on agile business. [Scott] pulled out some interesting points
- » 10 Essential Marketing Skills for Freelancers freelanceswitch.com
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas?
- Web Professionals portfolio and profile - Professional On The Web professionalontheweb.com
A portfolio directory for web agencies and freelancers
- Ask the Wizard: How and What to Measure burningdoor.com
Successful businesses measure and count things [...] unsuccessful business either measure nothing, the wrong things, too many things, or finally, they measure the right things but they don't communicate the measurements efficiently.
- Xchangeteam - Freelancer of the Year xchangeteam.com
Designed to showcase freelance talent and reward those consultants who have demonstrated that they have added real value to a client’s business.
- 10 mistakes managers make during job interviews articles.techrepublic.com.com
"Conducting effective interviews requires a balance of instinct, insight, and some solid preparation. It also helps if you don't make certain blunders, such as monopolizing the conversation, asking leading questions, or applying too much (or too little) p
- Six ways Twitter can make money - Download Squad downloadsquad.com
- Lame excuses for not being a Web professional | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
If you do like rants and have an interest in creating websites that work for as many people as possible, you might enjoy this.
This article will first introduce persistent UI pitfalls of the 1990s, then outline the benefits of Web standards-based Web site development.
- Fractals of Change: Morph of a Nerd CEO - The Power of Silence blog.tomevslin.com
Negotiation is not debate.
- Why Web Accessibility Makes Sense » Introduction » Accessites.org » Powered by AutoRun accessites.org
This presentation will help you see the value of web accessibility and why it makes sense for you, as a web developer, and why it is a must-have for your clients.
- Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Refactoring Your Career « webworkerdaily.com
Here’s a catalog of career refactorings you can apply to help move yourself towards your own vision of what you want to be doing next.
- Transitioning from User Experience to Product Management - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
Becoming a product manager is a logical move for many UX practitioners, as it requires many of the same skills, traits, and competencies involved in crafting a user experience. Additionally, product management is a common role within many organizations, m
Some of the worst problems plaguing companies who attempt to enter the world of blogging.
- Geek | Manager » Starting Out in Project Management blog.geekmanager.co.uk
"One of the difficulties for a first-time project manager is that being a great project resource (i.e. team member) is what gets you the job as project manager, nine times out of ten. Unfortunately, the characteristics of a great project resource are not
- ChangeThis :: ChangeThis changethis.com
Creating a new kind of media. A form of media that uses existing tools (like PDFs, blogs and the web) to challenge the way ideas are created and spread.