Ade in Business

I ran across a really interesting article at strategy+business by way of Businesspundit. The article’s premise is that there weren’t enough failures during the dot com crash:

The 50 percent failure rate of the dot-com era still seems high, until we put it into perspective. Compare the dot-coms to other business realms: From 1996 to [...]

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I’m happy to announce that August Trometer is joining Recursive Function as a web developer. He’ll be spending most of his time working with me on software development. He hasn’t been here more than 20 hours yet and he’s already knee-deep in PHP code.
August was most recently working on his own creating cool [...]

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A few days ago a friend of mine posted his thoughts about 37signals and Basecamp, their flagship product. He mentions that users he’d signed up on his Basecamp account didn’t end up using it, and speculates that it’s because the application isn’t user-friendly. As evident from the comments, a number of other readers [...]

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I didn’t get a chance to go to SXSW, so have been happy to see slides that have come from some of the presentations. One of the more interesting ones was Barenaked App: The figures behind web apps. It’s an essential read for anyone who’s interested in building a web-based application for a [...]

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One of the things that intrigued me most about the rat infestation of a New York KFC restaurant was reading about Robert Corrigan, the expert that was brought in to help clean up the mess. Corrigan (from nearby Richmond, IN) has been called “the Elvis of the pest control world” for the research he’s [...]

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