Ade in Business

I ran across this interesting Starbucks fact (via Seth Godin):
It wasn’t until several years after the company was up and running that they realized it would be a good idea to sell any beverages at all. All they sold was beans.
It’s inspirational to think that a successful company like Starbucks had a much different business [...]

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A couple weeks ago Joel Spolsky posted a great transcript of his talk to Yale computer science students. Among other things, he talks about why it sucks to work as a programmer at a company whose focus is not software:
You never get to do things the right way. You always have to do things [...]

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