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Aug 22

“I had the highest credit score at a time in my life when I was leveraged to the hilt and I lived paycheck to paycheck. Now that I have my own business, a healthy retirement, and can pay for everything I need/want, I have a low score and I’m dubbed a higher risk even though my ability to pay is very high. I used to think a credit score was all about your ability to pay, but it’s clear now it’s more about how profitable you will be to banks.” A Whole Lotta Nothing on Credit Scores

Aug 21

(via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

Daring Fireball: (1) Collect Underpants, (2) ?, (3) Profit

John Gruber describes the mistaken thinking of people now saying “HP should’ve always sold the TouchPad at a fire sale price, they’d have sold loads and been successful”.

I wonder if this kind of thinking is the result of a VC-funded, low-overhead web-service mindset, where it is arguably possible to put growth ahead of profitability in the short term? And now tech cheerleaders/pundits are trying to look at hardware and atoms businesses through the same prism.

As Gruber says at the end of his piece, “sustainable businesses are built on profit”. And that requires pricing based on margins and cost per unit, not just user acquisition targets.

Aug 19

Apropos an office conversation about "white flavour cookies"

Homer: Lisa, would you like a donut?
Lisa: No thanks. Do you have any fruit?
Homer: This has purple in it. Purple is a fruit.

Aug 16

Archetypes of “Internet of Things” businesses

iamdanw:

Product companies who find telco partners to bootstrap the business

Web companies with prototyping capabilities and enough turnover to deal with some manufacturing

Advertising agencies who develop products ideas as PR

“It seems like every Mac-related site I visit or subscribe to is spending more time telling my how much money Apple is making and less time telling me how I can make better use of my Macs and iPhone. A little cheerleading is fine, but I don’t need to see daily stories about how Apple is dominating this sector or that. The smartphone marketshare battle with Android, for instance, has absolutely no effect on how I use my iPhone or how I live my life.”

Dr Drang

I see why Merlin Mann likes this guy.

(by Joe Heller via azspot)

Aug 14

If Mario Was Designed in 2010

Aug 12

(by Andy Singer via azspot)

Aug 11

(via startupquote)

These “inspirational” startup quotes are so often facile (“Just be awesome! Everything else will work itself out!”), though I can’t help but agree with this.

(via mikehudack)

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