This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
This is the blog of Adam Kalsey. Unusual depth and complexity. Rich, full body with a hint of nutty earthiness.
New Model Software Startups: Two Stage Ventures in Business
Let's call this pattern the two-stage software startup. Unlike a two-staged rocket, the first stage is light and runs on little fuel, it's the second stage that has the big burn, if it ignites. ... Build as little as possible, as fast and cheaply as possible, while demonstrating some unique value.
The Blog's New Role in Crisis Communications in Business
So, why a blog in a crisis? You have the ability to offer updates instantly. You can use a human voice to accommodate the public's emotional response. (via)
Ubiquity in the Internet Age in Business
InfoWorld: The top 20 IT mistakes to avoid in Business
Tim Bray on Patents and Linux in Business
In software, assume that everything is already patented. You can't build anything, no matter how new it is, without infringing someone%u2019s patent.
Los Angeles Faces The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Earthquake, Flood, Fire, Back-Up Catcher in Business
How baseball's greatest opportunity-seeker completed a deal with no downside, lots of potential, and confused the baseball press in the process.
The Big Unit, The Medium Unit, or Immaturity vs. Dignity in Business
Starting Up on a Shoestring in Business
Starting a business without a budget.
How Not To Treat a New Customer in Business
More mobile phone customer service nightmares
Free Software? Not For You, Baby in Business
IBM pushes Linux in their ads, but then discourages customers from switching from closed-source IBM software like AIX.
When the CEO is the Brand, But Falls from Grace, What's Next? in Business
What happens to a company if the CEO's name is in effect its brand -- and then that name is tarnished?
Stressed for Success? in Business
You are being judged [by college admissions] according to criteria that you would never use to judge another person and which will never again be applied to you once you leave higher ed.
If He's So Smart...Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation in Business
If Apple is really the brains of the industry--if its products are so much better than Microsoft's or Dell's or IBM's or Hewlett-Packard's--then why is the company so damned small? (Consider that in the last 10 years alone, Apple has been issued 1,300 patents, almost one-and-a- half times as many as Dell and half as many as Microsoft--which earns 145 times as much money.)
Boxes and Arrows: Executive Dashboards in Business
These systems, and their web-based progeny, all have the same goal: bringing critical information to decision makers and improve the performance of their business.
The Problem With Presentations in Business
Don't let presentation software keep you from getting your story across
Running a One-Person Business in Business
From Inc.com, resources and tips for anyone running a small business. Collectsions, home offices, marketing and more are covered.
Blogging for Dollars in Business
Tips for a successful Adsense site
Fast Company | The Threat of Pigeons and Other Fundamentalists in Business
When I meet someone who's willing to disregard an obvious truth just because it conflicts with his worldview, I wonder about his judgment. I wonder what other truths he's willing to ignore in order to preserve his superstitions. When such a person is in charge, I do more than worry.
Veeck Family Values in Business
Marilyn Monroe look-alikes, nuns giving fans back rubs, cross-dressing dog mascots, death to disco night, Bill Murray leading a marching band, Elvis tributes ... Just another typical scene for the prince of baseball promotion, Mike Veeck. Peel back the zaniness and find constant innovation, no fear of failure, and an inherited calling.
Dakota Indian tribal wisdom on project management in Humor
The Dakota Indians say, 'when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount'. However, in many companies a range of far more advanced strategies are often employed.
Short-Circuiting the New Paper Pushers in Business
I inserted words from the job descriptions into my resume, giving the bots exactly what they wanted to see.
How Users Participate in Building Google in Business
I've always argued that sites like Amazon, Google, and EBay ... represent the leading edge of a new paradigm. Here are some of the ways they are different.
Fortune.com - Mighty Amazon in Business
Jeff Bezos has been hailed as a visionary and put down as a goofball. He's proved critics wrong by forging a winning management strategy built on brains, guts, and above all, numbers.
Venture Reporter Bought Out in Business
In my mind blogs have killed the newsletter business. You can't be just a newsletter any more because some talented and ambitious fellow who has been laid off will spend $99 to host a blog to kill his former boss. The only protection you have is to build something bigger and better then a blog. Blogs are killing the weak publishers.
For Economical Gamers, a Rental With No Due Date in Business
Now the Netflix model - in which subscribers pay a monthly fee to rent DVD's by mail, with no fees imposed for late returns - has spread to the video game industry.
The Trading Desk in Business
A look at the business of baseball and using baseball strategies to run a business.
Why Spy? in Business
Studies show, for instance, that electronic monitoring results in lower job satisfaction, in part because people begin to believe the quantity of their work is more important than the quality.
Bundle Up for Cold Calling - Part 2: 8 Hot Script Tips in Business
Even at a large company, it's surprisingly easy to get through to the right person if you ask a specific question. I simply called up the main switchboard of a major portal and asked, "Who is the person in your IT group that is in charge of Website performance?" Two minutes and a little chit-chat later, I had a name, phone number, and email address.
The Dell Way in Business
"Our direct model has basic principles: Don't let anyone come between us and the customer. Keep clear communication, and no extra costs." Those tenets apply even when Dell is selling services, Rollins says.
Lessons From Online Groceries in Business
Unlike Webvan and other cautionary examples, British companies carefully thought through how to efficiently coordinate their IT processes, marketing approaches and supply-chain strategies. For example, most companies pick up customer orders from existing stores instead of building separate distribution centers, thereby assuring a lower fixed cost.
Boston Globe Online / Business / AT&T Broadband users see 3d e-mail shift in Business
Lynch said he found it surprising that Comcast was moving to put its own name on the e-mail service - but letting the AT&T Broadband name continue to appear on cable bills for several months after last fall's 8 percent rate hike. ''Comcast would rather you think that was AT&T,'' he said.
New insurance products for the hosting industry in Business
ISPs and Web hosting are the only industries that have been able to get away with contractually denying any liability for incidents involving their services.
Why Music Stays Free in Business
For $9.95 to $24.95 per month, each allows consumer downloads from song catalogs. But the services come with restrictions. Full song catalogs aren't available, only about 200,000 tracks. There are rarely new songs by major artists. MusicNet prevents its songs from being burned to CD. pressplay allows consumers to burn only two tracks per artist each month (making it almost impossible to assemble a copy of a CD). MusicNet doesn't allow its downloadable songs to be ported to portable music players; pressplay normally allows only 10 songs to be ported per month.
Saltire : Dress Casual Must Die in Business
I just think it promotes an overall tone and image about the way you do business with people. Unfortunately at a lot of companies dress casual has slipped a few notches to casual or even ultra-casual (aka sloppy chic).
BW Online | The Man Who Redefined Management in Business
A new documentary about Peter Drucker shows how he has had more impact on business than other any writer in the 20th century
Lousy Service Cripples United, McDonald's in Business
Lousy service. It drives customers away and it makes advertising a total waste of money.
LawMeme - Software Company Claims Free Speech Tax Exemption in Business
This may seem like a crackpot theory--but Citrix is a major company, and it is seeking to include in its class action 499 of the Fortune 500 companies
MySQL Vulnerabilities in Business
There is a flaw in the password authentication system in MySQL that makes it possible for an attacker to authenticate as another user in no more than 32 attempts.
Get on your own payroll to save on self-employment taxes in Business
Turns out that by putting myself on a formal, taxable salary from my company, my firm can earn a new corporate deduction and I can protect a sizable chunk of my earnings from the government's penalty on personal enterprise. And it's legal.
HBS Working Knowledge: Innovation & Change: The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top in Business
Microsoft wins through effective management of its intellectual property and an ability to spot and react to important trends before they take hold.
Survey: Small Biz Should Bite the Online Bullet in Business
Of those small businesses with e-commerce capability during the 2001 holiday season, 59 percent said being online allowed them to increase sales, with an average increase of 29 percent. More than half (54 percent) said it increased their profitability.
I, Cringely | Resistance is Futile in Business
How Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Is Likely to Change Big Media
inc.com: Five Ways to Blow a Sale in Business
We asked CEOs from our Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies to share the sales techniques they've learned to avoid.
Saltire : Halcyon Days Revisited in Business
In the end, all of their process, methodologies, and strategic frameworks were the same.
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