Business

In an interview, Clay Herbert walks Nathan Barry through creating the best …

Sam Harris gives away his content for free but still makes money.

Making a sale of a Software as a Service (SaaS) product to a large enterprise customer can be slow and difficult. There are a lot of potential roadblocks that need to be overcome.

We recently visited a local Indian restaurant and they had an interesting way to explain the dishes on the menu.

I come up with lots of ideas for potential applications, businesses, stories and random other things.

Sometimes you come across an article that makes you think. The article, Numbers To Know For …

I have a file with 400+ ideas for businesses, products, books, etc. So finding ideas is relatively easy. However validating and picking ideas is more of a challenge.

As many of my posts start, I was listening to a podcast. This was a startup founder who was talking about the company she started with a partner and how they handled decisions where the two of them …

Last week I experienced a range of customer service related to a new sofa we bought. It’s clear how much difference it can make.

“Put everything you know out for free but in a random order”.

Like lots of people, especially developers, I have a long list of potential business/app ideas that sit around and gather dust. Some of them are just impractical, some I don’t have the skills to …

A colleague just spent the day at a WeWork and commented on how badly named it was.

Quite often I will come across long articles and either put off reading them or just skim through their content. This

In a recent article by Ryan Singer, Options, Not Roadmaps, he explains why he doesn’t use roadmaps - he uses …

There are a lot of sites that claim to be idea generators. Most of them turn out to be just a button you click that slings together a bunch of random words that are meant to then become a prompt to …

I recently attended the fully virtual Microsoft Build conference. There is no way I would have been able to attend the real “physical” conference due to the location, financial commitment …

I came across an excellent site for summaries of productivity books. There are a lot of sites out there that provide summaries however the quality of the video summaries is excellent and seems to be …

I was listening to the audiobook for “Questions Are the Answer” by Hal Gregerson and it mentioned an approach used by the X lab at Alphabet nicknamed “MonkeyFirst”.

These are my notes from attending the Consensus 2019 conference in New York - there is a good chance that some of the notes I made are incorrect.

There is a natural reaction for people when faced with a problem to offer solutions. This can be especially true for managers.

This excellent article looks at the different types of deadlines and the impact they have. The key point for me, and not something I had seen previously defined, is the distinction between real and …

This one is just for future reference for me that I may find useful one day - a website full of resources that may be useful for naming things.

I have used the “5 whys” approach multiple times to get to the root of some question. This article advocates adding a time dimension to the decision. Not only should we consider why we are …

This is an old post (March 2009) that someone retweeted but still holds true on how to work out if an expert is really an expert. It also is a guide how not to fall into common traps that so-called …

I found this article to be a very astute observation that it can be all the “little trade-offs” that can add up to cause issues. The article highlights it from the perspective of a leader …

This is a great article about a small …

Derek Sivers highlights an interesting pricing approach in this article. He was asked to perform at a distant location. When the customer …

This is an excellent article that touches on some many areas including Amazon (again) and their …

I came across a link on Product Hunt to Tailor Brands who do automatic logo creation and branding. It is great to see …

Amazon just opened the first store with no …