As is often the case PG has an excellent essay up on “What Happened to Yahoo” (no exclamation point from him). While the entire is a must read the money quote for me is: Yahoo treated programming as a commodity. At Yahoo, user-facing software was controlled by product managers and designers. The job of programmers was […]
Continue reading →So yesterday, according to The New York Times, Apple took about 600k in new iPhone orders. Rock on. At about $200 a pop that is about $120 million in revenue plus whatever the AT&T sub happens to be. Most likely three x that or $360 mill in total. Not bad for a day when you are […]
Continue reading →Last week, in advance of the unveiling of the new iPhone 4G and the iPhone OS4 operating system a little bit later today by Steve Jobs at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, AT&T announced that it is dropping it's unlimited data plans for iPhones. Of course they did not spin it this way but instead […]
Continue reading →"I think people are willing to pay for content. I believe it for music and video, and I believe it for the media." Steve Jobs Steve made the comment at D8 […]
Continue reading →by David Eckoff, special to Force of Good Everyone knows someone who has come up with a good idea and who has not acted upon that idea. Or started working on the idea… and not finished. Perhaps you can even personally relate to that. People come up with good ideas for new businesses all of […]
Continue reading →As the organizer of Atlanta Startup Weekend I have been involved with a few companies that emerge from the event. And as they move forward there is always an issue. An issue of equity holders and complexity of the cap table. This issue has been a subject of conversations within both Skribit and Twitpay. Investors […]
Continue reading →In a nice opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, by Schramm et al. They essentially say that the age of the business not the size is the more precise characteristic of companies creating jobs. The more precise factor is not the size of businesses, but rather their age. According to the Census Bureau, nearly […]
Continue reading →Rich DeMillo is blogging. He is writing about the interesting things that happen when technology innovation and business execution impact each other. How technologists can get things done in a technology company and what business managers need to know to be successful. When Worlds Collide is about how organizations can succeed when business execution and […]
Continue reading →"The rich keep getting richer because they keep doing whatever it was that made them rich. Ditto for the poor." Neal Boortz
Continue reading →Remember Nina. That lady I thought was a god send. She’s a liar too. My wireless modem never showed up on Friday. Gotta give AT&T a little credit though. Mike showed up. I speed tested the AT&T service on Friday morning. Maxed out at 3Mbps. I signed up for 6Mbps. So I had to call […]
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