The Business of Bookmarking
Insightful talk by Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard. (It’s a PDF of the text of the talk.)
Insightful talk by Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard. (It’s a PDF of the text of the talk.)
Olympus has announced that they’re going to sue some of their currently serving executives for their alleged role in the accounting scandal that exploded after Olympus dismissed its foreign CEO, Michael Woodford, last year. The Olympus board will not require the executives to stand down, however. The group being sued includes the current president of [...]
People that run these create a startup in 48 hours things? They’re snake oil salesmen, pure and simple. They’re selling to software developers a get rich quick scheme in slightly more respectable clothing. There is no substitute for hard work and no short cuts to success. You want to build a business? Great. Be prepared [...]
So Oliver Reichenstein wrote this article about a business class for news websites. And Fraser Speirs wrote an article about the cost of e-books. The timing is coincidental but one explains why the other won’t work. At least not at the moment. The cost that a news site would charge for a ‘premium’ version of [...]
So back to my original question – why are companies so addicted to growth? Why aren’t companies happy with a consistent revenue and profit stream versus a growing one? A few answers I can think of are: They are small. Without market share, you can’t grow revenue and profits. Valid, but you can be small [...]
Wired’s gaming blog, Game|Life, canvassed their predictions for the upcoming year in terms of gaming and the issue of the hardcore gamer, particularly vis-à-vis Nintendo, came up. Whenever this issue is raised I pray someone will say what should be plain for anyone to see. Namely that the hardcore demographic vastly overrates their importance and [...]