Two bits of exciting news to share with everyone today. First, we’ve won SE Michigan’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For for the fourth year in a row. We’re excited about that, because no matter what we do or why we do it, it’s not worth it if the work experience (and, by
Read More...Paul Graham went back and asked the founders of all the startups he’s funded about what surprised them about starting a startup. In other words, what did they wish they knew going in that they do now? The list is intriguing. Here are the biggest: Be careful with cofounders. Startups take over your life. It’s
Read More...I have a preternatural fear of skeletons. The origins of this fear go like this: when I was 8, on some nondescript day leading up to Halloween, I was walking past my father’s darkened den, which was situated at the end of a long hallway. Back then, house phones were beige and weighed the same
Read More...Jason Fried: Making money takes practice, just like playing the piano takes practice. No one expects anyone to be any good at the piano unless they’ve put in lots practice. Same with making money. The more you practice the better you get. Eventually making money is as easy for you as piano is for someone
Read More...Article in yesterday’s Chicago Tribune on 37signals’ CEO Office Hours. 37signals is an outstanding example of a company that has very literally embraced the transparency, authenticity and openness other companies claim to want but seldom demonstrate.
Read More...Previously, we have discussed the value of Oracle BI apps for PeopleSoft, and we have examined some key implementation considerations. Today, in this final post on the topic, I would like to chat about the biggest buzzword of them all: ROI. The key question for many customers is this: does it really make sense to
Read More...Hot on the heels of Oracle OpenWorld 2009, the 9.1 PeopleSoft app releases keep coming. Over the weekend, Oracle has made available both PeopleSoft Enterprise Learning Solutions 9.1 and Customer Relationship Management 9.1. Both of these releases are now available on eDelivery and you can find the release notes on Oracle’s ‘My Oracle Support’ by
Read More...Relatively short post today, which means not much in the way of editorial, simply because I’m slammed and have embarrassingly little time to tell you about the time a bunch of us, when we were 11, went out into the woods and made spears out of dead saplings and began to wage a sort of
Read More...UPDATE 10/22 10:08 AM EST: Google just announced its capability to show Twitter updates in its search results. So much for Bing having any substantial upper hand. Looks like Microsoft’s Bing gets the first shot at indexing the Twitter datastream, at least as part of the Bing brand itself (web nerds likely know there is
Read More...Interesting list. Of these, I see the biggest hitters being: Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is a style of computing that characterizes a model in which providers deliver a variety of IT-enabled capabilities to consumers. Cloud-based services can be exploited in a variety of ways to develop an application or a solution. Using cloud resources does
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