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Why does France’s SNCF hate European tourists from German speaking lands?
We've suffered through two world wars with you, you didn't pay the reparations we wanted for the first one, you'll pay those reparations now.
Visiomente: Modern Carpet Baggers or What’s Wrong with American Business
Visiomenté don't produce anything except legal documents and hassle.
Thanksgiving: Making a Better World
Heroic work at great personal sacrifice are what makes hope possible. It is an honour to support such work.
People who buy iPhones are image-conscious fad-following idiots
Samsung smartly shows iPhones are for pretentious wannabes who are behind the times.
Balancing life and work as an entrepreneur
What's your best advice for balancing life and work as an entrepreneur? Forget it.
Focus in Business Means Leaving Money on the Table: Apple
Apple stay focused and are the second largest company in the world, leaving long time rivals at Microsoft and new rivals at Google in their dust.
Neo-Taylorism vs Toyota Production System vs Human Relations Movement for Knowledge Work
What's cool about business theory is that it's all been invented before. Here's a practical rundown on Scientific Management for knowledge work.
Drupal vs Joomla vs WordPress: Developer’s Perspective
Drupal can be justified for enormous projects, Joomla should die a violent death, WordPress is great for any kind of site small or large. Here's why.
Highrise Tags Export: Docs out of date in their own Help system
Keeping out of date and inaccurate information in your help documents is just wrong. Case in point: 37signals Highrise export.
Feedback/team building tool: Rypple
How should you get feedback from your employees. It depends on organisation size. Small groups: just ask. Larger: have a look at Rypple.
bcToolkit vs Freshbooks for Basecamp reporting: nod to Freshbooks for reports plus invoicing
Should you use bcToolkit? How important is reporting. Are there any more affordable alternatives to bcToolkit?
Why we don’t want VC: How seeking funding can destroy your business and your life
Rand Fishkin's three months in VC hell in 2009 and how he woke up out of the nightmare and made SEOmoz profitable instead. Goal: build a better world.
37signals suite review: Is it worth upgrading? First fix the suite integration and syncing guys…
Is it worth upgrading to the 37signals suite from Basecamp? Really, it depends how much sync you need and how much integration you want.
When good suppliers go bad, or why we don’t recommend Cartika Hosting anymore
When a business expands too fast and loses sight of serving customers to focus on growth instead, the results aren't pretty. Here's our experience at Cartika.
Verizon Hands Consumers Back $50 million in bad charges or Why government oversight of private enterprise is necessary
Alas, without civil oversight, private enterprise is not an invisible helping hand, but the ripper's glove on your throat.
How much is a good logo worth? Case study: Agile Pain Relief
Does a strong logo make a difference to how much you can charge or getting the business at all? We think so. Here's a case study of a homemade log vs designer.
FreeDB or Musicbrainz: Why is there no software to upload album info in OS X?
Gracenote stole the CDDB from its contributors. FreeDB and Musicbrainz appeared. But why is it almost impossible to use them on OS X?
Paypal sucks but so does Digital River and Google Checkout is no great shakes either
Between 10% commission rates and Paypal's arbitrarily account freezing, how should a small business or software process transactions?
Paying to pitch to VC’s or Angel Investors
Don't get sucked into paying to pitch VC's. Use your head and get there on your own resources.
