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By Bracken King |
August 26th, 2010
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The 80-20 rule describes a common scenario in which a relatively small portion of causes (e.g., 20%) account for a large amount of the effect (e.g., 80%). This type of situation crops up all over the place and is particularly relevant when thinking about the amount effort you put into SEO.
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By Tyler King |
August 6th, 2010
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It's pretty common these days to suggest that planning isn't very useful. Most lean start-ups seem to prefer spending their time "doing" instead of "planning". This post explains why planning is important for all businesses, but that businesses are simply discovering more efficient ways to approach it.
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By Bracken King |
June 22nd, 2010
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Earlier this year, the startup Square generated a huge amount of buzz for it's goal of letting anybody with a smartphone accept credit card payments with basically no startup costs. That buzz has recently turned sour as Square has struggled to meet the demand for its service. Does that mean Square launched prematurely, or has their early launch still left them ahead of the game?
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By Bracken King |
June 3rd, 2010
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Earlier this week, I talked about how you can use principles from evolution to grow your small business. This post goes in to more detail about how that principle can be applied to choosing and changing the software used in your company.
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By Bracken King |
June 1st, 2010
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One of the main assets of a small company is an ability to change and adapt quickly. Even for small companies though, change can be hard if you're always worried about what the "right change" is. Evolution suggests a way to overcome this problem by focusing on how you evaluate a change instead of what specific change you make.
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I really like professional football, and I'm from St. Louis. Unfortunately, these two facts combine to mean that I'm a big fan of the worst team in the NFL: the St. Louis Rams. This year the Rams have the first pick in the draft, so they can take absolutely any incoming rookie they...
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We recently decided that this blog should focus on the technology needs for small businesses. You might wonder why a small business shouldn't just use the same tools as bigger companies, so this post will outline just a few of the reasons.
In case you're not sure what we mean by "big-business so...
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As you probably know, Google released a new social networking feature called Google Buzz. Just like any Google product, some people love it and some people hate it. There are a lot of legitimate criticisms (mostly about the major privacy holes), but there's one criticism that I just can'...
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As you may have gleaned from our previous posts, Tyler and I are pretty big fans of many Google software products. Among other things, Less Annoying Software uses Google Voice to handle telephone service, Google Apps for email and documents, and Adwords for the majority of our advertising. It prob...
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I recently had a conversation with someone about what type of people a start-up company should hire. I obviously weigh the importance of technology more heavily than most people, but I'm of the opinion that one of the first hires any company makes should be a CTO (or just a developer if we're ...
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