A blog of aggregated miscellanea and things I like uncovered from my daily travails. I'm @jacobjay, a peripatetic designer/developer of British persuasion, having interests in gastronomy, fashion, technology, interiors and sustainability. I'm currently living between New Delhi and France, working on a Lua web platform and e-commerce. I dig Macs, mountain biking and smelly cheese.
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Posts tagged “business”
“ « planning […] can lead to a false sense of security for entrepreneurs, and can discourage necessary business “pivots” along the way » ”
‘Is Planning Bad for Business?’ by Inc Magazine
Making Money — Advice from Jason Fried [Inc.com]
“making money is not the same as starting a business”
“ In one day, we just paid more than three months’ rent. That was a light-bulb moment. An office can be free — and even a profit center — if you start thinking about your company’s byproducts. ”
‘The Truth About Real Estate’ by Jason Fried (37 signals) on Inc.
“ the percentage of corporate managers who consider the proper function of the corporation to lie beyond merely maximising return on investment for share owners has remained well above 60 percent ”
‘Ties that bind: a social contracts approach to business ethics’ on Google Books. If this fact is broadly true it’s encouraging.
Flattr — a social micropayment platform that lets you show love for the things you like.
«Sonalika with Nawab Bashir Khan, Gold Printer with Anokhi since 1978, Jaipur.» Great juxtaposition of production and presentation in these photos, re-enforcing the image of a company that values its workers, and transparency. Via INDIAN BY DESIGN.
“ We would rather suffer the visible costs of a few bad decisions than incur the many invisible costs that come from decisions made too slowly – or not at all – because of a stifling bureaucracy. ”
Warren Buffett; via 37signals.
“ In the early days it was said the Apple marketing department consisted of Jobs looking in his mirror and asking himself what he wanted. His customer-relations motto is from Henry Ford: «If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.» ”
‘Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple’ from Times Online. I’m not sure we really need another profile of Steve Jobs, but this one’s actually not uncomplimentary if you can identify with Jobs’ mechanisms. Indeed I’m not sure why he is attempting to suppress it—except that he needs to maintain ‘unknowability’.
