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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I ran across a very interesting post by Philippe Chrun, who writes with much detail and honesty about his failing startup, mycarpoolstation.com:
I am quietly distancing myself from my pet project, my baby which I poured my heart and soul and mind into…. We invested 30,000 US$ of our own capital, excluding an estimated 50,000 US$ [...]

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My LLC papers for Recursive Function finally came in the mail last week. Thank you, Secretary of State Todd Rokita.
I applied through LegalZoom, and found the process pretty quick and painless. And at $206.10, it was much cheaper than our Bottled Software filing several years ago. (I always like it when I spot [...]

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… and not knowing whether there’s water at the bottom or large jagged rocks. And if there’s water at the bottom, not knowing whether you’ll find the elusive Jaguar Shark lurking below.
On Jan. 30th I sat down with my boss and handed him my letter of resignation. I was a manager in the [...]

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