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Now I am starting back doing consulting on a freelance basis, I really want to reexamine the business model of consulting. I have always felt that the hourly charging is a pain. I don’t think it is fair for neither the client nor the consultant. The agencies of course like it as that is their main way of making money. …
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John over at Daring Fireball has an interesting piece called The Life, where he talks about the economic realities of being a successfull one man ISV in the Mac world. It is based around the NewsGator’s recent purchase of Ranchero Software, which apparently has caused a bit of frustration amongst Ranchero Software …
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So I ended up quitting my nine to five job. In Denmark you have to give 30 days notice to the end of a calendar month, so I actually did it a couple of weeks ago, but I couldn’t write about until today for various reasons. It became more and more difficult to do what I wanted to do next to a steady job, so it was time …
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Focusing on a large long term abstract revenue goal makes you loose focus and morale. Instead focus on building the first $50K of revenue. Just saw this by Wil Schroter, The First 50 Plan via Ken. The problem with trying to think in terms of “how do we get to $10 billion in revenue in 2050” is that you lose sight of …
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Just read this cool article Pioneer of the Flat Tax about Mart Laar the first prime minister of an independent Estonia. It reads almost like the story of a typical hard headed young entrepreneur who doesn’t yet know all the reasons why something can’t be done. Imagine a place with no tax accountants, where the annual …
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I have to admit like many people I was dumbfounded when I heard about EBay’s purchase of Skype. Having read EBay’s Skype Presentation I think it does make a lot of sense. There is definitely a lot of shared areas that might not be entirely obvious to some of us who are snow blind in they payment area. In particularly …
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Excellent advise today from David Cowan: ” The Best Startup Advice I Have”:http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2005/09/best-startup-advice-i-have.html which is about the Sales Learning Curve as defined by Mark Leslie the founder of Veritas. In a nutshell as far as I understand it you need to expect a certain learning …
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In Business 2.0 John Occhipinti from the Woodside fund wants to pay $5M in venture capital for a fraudproof credit card authorization via cell phones and PDAs. I found this via Nathan’s hilarious Odio.us Elevator Pitch generator. Lets first look at why John wants this from us: Credit card fraud is more rampant than …
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Bumped into (while web browsing) a very old friend of mine here in Denmark yesterday, who I haven’t seen for 15 years. It turns out that he is also a bit of a serial entrepreneur and boy did we have a lot to talk about. He’s working solo on a new venture right now for the same reasons I am. I hadn’t really formulated …
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Interesting inteview at Adaptive Path with Flickr’s Eric Costello about how Flickr ended up going down the photo sharing path and away from their original idea for an online game. The first early version was really a chat site… It wasn’t a photo sharing site, so much as it was a place where you could go to chat and …
