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Profits, success and subscription models

Last week I posted that success equals profits and got an email response from William Reeve, saying very true, and good post, but don’t forget about businesses with subscription models. Many of these have highly predictable revenues and profits and can therefore be said to be successful before they have reached profitability, but once [...]

App stores just a flash in the pan?

FactoryJoe wrote an amusing tongue in cheek piece around a month ago poking fun at the app store. He called it Steve Jobs hates the app store… As well as doing a great job of charting the problems of the app store, many of which we’ve discussed here before he also [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-06

Published a new post: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30 http://cli.gs/Lv2gt # Wandering around the incredible palace on Isola Bella, lake Maggiore, Lombardy # RT @ianbissell: US newspapers Q2 ad sales plunge 29%, online falls 16% @marketingcharts http://bit.ly/SxG94 # RT @IndexVentures: Read about the deal here – http://bit.ly/12CQqE Index part of team that buys [...]

Great corporate culture story

Getting the culture of a company right is tough, but is massively rewarding when done well. Most often it is done badly though, and back in my management consultant days I saw enough empty statements posted on lobby walls to fill a small book. It is maybe for this reason that I love to [...]

Reminder – success equals profits

Jason Fried of 37signals made a great post yesterday which he titled The bar for success in our industry is too low. It is a bit of a rant and his main is that we in the tech industry are celebrating companies as successes before they have become successful – a [...]

Android marketplace still largely bereft of activity

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Regular readers will know that while I am full of admiration for the way Apple have taken market share in the smart phone market and created a vibrant ecosystem of third party developers around the iPhone I wish they would treat those developers better [...]