Business

Let’s finish with a couple of…

November 4, 2015

Let's finish with a couple of publishing hot takes... Ben Thompson talks about how Grantland was a money pit for ESPN, but why it shouldn't have been. Text is a gateway drug, and Bill Simmons is already proving it with…

The dangers or selling under non-disclosure

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2015

Business

Gilbert Pellegrom has written a post that somewhat tells the story of what happened with WP Updates. Most of you know that WP Updates was acquired, and as I previously reported, was under a non-disclosure agreement as part of the…

Envato is incorporating in the US

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2015

Business

Envato is expanding operations to the United States, with an official incorporation. Many large companies do this, where they are registered in their home country, and again in large business centers. The US is a huge business center for Envato…

Two AMAs to make you smarter

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2015

Business

Two AMAs happened today with people I respect a lot, in different walks of life. AMA with Pippin Williamson Pippin Williamson, you all know, makes plugins. He did a great AMA on ManageWP. I'm going to steal some nuggets: On…

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2015

Business

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…

What makes some companies in the open source software world different

Brian Krogsgard

October 6, 2015

Business

For a long time, I've debated with myself about what makes some consulting companies get a lot more attention in the open source software world versus others. The key factor, I think, is community engagement -- and I mean engagement…

WP Updates sold under non-disclosure, experiences outage

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2015

Business

WP Updates is a SaaS that allows plugin and theme authors to provide automatic updates to their customers. It is a third party distribution system that the author uploads their updated files to and WP Updates sends it to customers.…

Local WordPress development strategies and transparency in business — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 19, 2015

BusinessDraft

Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss strategies for working locally, Underscore.js templating, and transparency in WordPress businesses.

Popping the publisher bubble

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Business

Ben Thompson does excellent analysis. In his latest post he talks about the big problems facing journalism and publishing online. Here's my favorite part: It is easy to feel sorry for publishers: before the Internet most were swimming in money,…

Gravity Flow makes custom form administrative workflows simple

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

BusinessDesign

"RE: RE: RE: RE: Needs input." Gravity Flow helps organizations get rid of this nonsense, by extending Gravity Forms to make custom form-based workflows for administrative approval and user input processes.

Freelancers and the self-employed are ignored by the government

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

BusinessSecurity

Sara Horowitz -- who is the founder and executive director of the Freelancers Union -- makes a compelling argument for how important freelancers are to the American economy. She highlights just how big the freelancer economy is: For better or…

Yoast to expand to Drupal with SEO product

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

Business

It makes sense, given Yoast SEO's recent API changes and adjustment to a real-time Javascript driven SEO analysis, that they can now create a cross platform SEO product. And today they announced that Yoast SEO for Drupal 7 will be available…

Showing up at a gold rush with a shovel and a pan

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2015

BusinessDesign

I'm a pretty big fan of Dave Pell's NextDraft newsletter (subscribe and read my interview with him and Andrew Norcross!). It's a mix of tech and current events, and today he talked about the bubble in tech. I'll show the quote…

Million dollar products

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2015

BusinessDesign

Kyle Neath isn't a fan of Unicorn culture in tech-land. He would like to see more people aim to create what he qualifies as family businesses, and aim for smaller (more niche) customer bases, provide better service, build companies that…

Stream 3 goes back to self hosted site logging, looks more like 1 than 2

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Business

Stream is one of those plugins that I've always seen the potential in but it's never quite nailed it. I was a pretty big fan of Stream 1, and I wrote about my experience, but in the end it ended…

Restaurant Engine sold for “low six figures”

Brian Krogsgard

August 7, 2015

Business

Brian Casel has sold Restaurant Engine for a "low six figures" sum. His asking price was $185,000, according to FE International, the site he used as a broker. Restaurant Engine was a very early entrant as a hosted WordPress website provider…