Ade in Business

This is a duplicate of a post I wrote at our new Recursive Function Blog. If you’d like to comment, please do so there.
I enjoyed the 37signals book and agree with a lot of their philosophy, but was baffled by today’s article, You don’t need a product road map.
The article makes a lot of [...]

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When we evaluate software, we typically ask someone from sales, “can it do that?” and they enthusiastically respond, “of course!”.
What we rarely ask as a follow-up is, “so how easy is it?” or “is it really the best tool for me to use to do that?”
We should also ask similar questions to contractors — a [...]

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Wow. In the first 24 hours of going live, the Ponyfish site has seen more unique visitors than the FormSpring in the months of March and April combined. New feeds are getting created by the minute, and a good percentage of those users are registering for accounts as well. I even had [...]

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OK, I know I mentioned a few days ago that I was putting some finishing touches on another web service, and was thinking about releasing it in the next couple weeks. Well, in the principle of releasing early and often, I’m making Ponyfish public today.
Ponyfish comes from an idea that I’d been tossing around [...]

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I read about new web application launches frequently, and as you can guess it’s always interesting to me to evaluate what others are building. However, it seems like more and more sites are launching under “private beta” status where you give them your contact information and may or may not receive an access key [...]

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