The Business of Opportunities
A great post about how WooThemes creates opportunities for businesses, enabling them to create opportunities for their customers as well.
A great post about how WooThemes creates opportunities for businesses, enabling them to create opportunities for their customers as well.
Tom McFarlin makes a well-reasoned article on his issues with the way the WordPress plugin repository works. I disagree with some of what he says, but he definitely makes some great points. I especially agree that the repository is extremely user-focused, and I don’t see why it can’t be a little bit of both user…
In the latest release of Jetpack, you can assign a constant in wp-config in order to develop locally. This is long due and welcome news. There are also some nice new filters for refining which widgets and shortcodes are made available in Jetpack.
Jesse Watson, Software Development Manager at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies, explores what makes software development “hard.” One of his sources claims that over 40% of software projects fail! The insight Jesse draws from all this failure is expressed in the “One Skull Rule.” This rule states: “The most valuable asset in the software industry is the synthesis of…
Rainmaker Digital is the newish name of the formerly known Copyblogger Media. Brian Clark recently did an interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy, where he discussed the state of the business, where things are going, and what to expect. It was pretty enlightening. I’m just going to call them Rainmaker from now on because it’s easier….
A friend and former coworker of mine really likes the word “webmaster”. Because it’s a hilarious word. It suggests that this person has control over the web in general, which is pretty pretentious. However, traditional webmasters have long had a place in the workplace. Today, I stumbled upon a conversation between Marc Andreesson, of the…
An excellent business-related discussion in Post Status Slack: Patrick Garman (CEO of Mindsize) asks in our #business Slack channel, “How much cash do you keep on hand in the business?” 💵 The consensus was three months, although Cory Miller always “could sleep at night” with a 6-month reserve if revenue completely stopped. Some, like Carl…