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Productizing A Freelancing / Consulting Business
How consultancies can get recurring revenue, deepen client relationships, and improve project outcomes by using some tactics from software companies.
21 Months In: How to Manage a Remote Team
If you want some ideas on how one team has set up their team to be successful at remote work, then stick around. This chapter is for you. Read more.
Pandora and Royalties
Enjoy SiriusXM's channels, podcasts, and articles which are dedicated to bringing you the hottest Celebrity, Entertainment, Music and Sports news.
Only clear skies on Google Maps and Earth
To celebrate the sunny days of summer (in the northern hemisphere at least), we're unveiling new satellite imagery for all Google mapping p...
Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh
Those dicks at Google are shutting off Reader at the end of the week, and the world is in a mad tizzy trying to find a feed reader that will continue to function. First a word on why it is stultifyingly stupid that this is even a problem in the first place: I want to read my feeds on three devices: a desktop computer…
My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89
As a songwriter Pandora paid me $16.89* for 1,159,000 play of “Low” last quarter. Less than I make from a single T-shirt sale. Okay that’s a slight exaggeration. That’s …
Ambition can be poison
In the right dose, ambition works wonders. It inspires you to achieve more, to stretch yourself beyond the comfort zone, and provides the motivation to keep going when the going gets tough. Rightfully so, ambition is universally revered. But ambition also has a dark, addictive side that’s …
Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign
Can you believe it? Malibu homeowners intentionally obscure public beach access areas with fake signs and hidden access. This is not only ridiculously selfish, it is illegal. Enter this...
Book discovery service: No Names. No Jackets
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What Product Companies Can Learn From Consulting Companies
Surprisingly, you can sell $50 SaaS more effectively with tactics used to sell $50,000 consulting engagements.
What happened to innovation?
There’s a lot of debate about whether or not the pace of innovation has slowed, and if so, what that means. After some particularly brutal pitches that felt like Saturday Night Live parodies of...
An App Store Experiment
What happened when I built a 7-minute workout app in a single night and launched it quietly.
Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One
Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One, Xbox One, Xbox, Microsoft
Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists
At the bottom of my recent post on App Store pricing , I ended a three-paragraph footnote 1 with this:
Effective Technical Leadership
Most successful projects have a single engineer responsible for driving the project forward while ensuring that strong technical decisions…