Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week | Kalzumeus Software
Talking About Money | Kalzumeus Software
Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
Selling Your Software To Businesses [TwilioCon 2012 presentation] | Kalzumeus Software
Why I’m Done Making Desktop Applications | Kalzumeus Software
Making 20% Time Work | begriffs.com
Following Google’s lead many companies have instituted “20% time” for their employees. This is one day per week in which employees can work on projects of their own choosing. The practice keeps developers motivated and sharp, produces tools to solve company problems, and in the best case creates open source which builds prestige and helps recruitment.
23 rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
Over the last 5 years of bootstrapping, I’ve tried a lot of things, and discovered there are many ways to create hassle for yourself that wastes time and energy and distracts you from building value in your business. This is my second post on lessons learned from bootstrapping; you can subscribe to updates to this page if you want to continue following along.
Opinion | 5-Hour Workdays? 4-Day Workweeks? Yes, Please (Published 2019)
Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope.
What Working At Stripe Has Been Like | Kalzumeus Software
Designing And Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game | Kalzumeus Software
It’s actually open source software that's eating the world
At Lightspeed we’ve been investing aggressively in open source software (OSS) businesses for the past 10 years. Recently, we’ve seen a significant increase in entrepreneurs pitching open source startups, and we’ve also seen greater competition for these deals. We pulled together some numbers in an attempt to measure the acceleration in interest in and funding for OSS businesses in the last few years. The results were staggering even to us.
The 7 Rules of Personal Productivity
It doesn't take filing systems, organization or daily plans to run a successful business. Read on to learn what really works -- then do it!
How to build a successful business model around open source software
The right approach to open source can be a great revenue model for the software provider — my company did it and we've been profitable since day one.
How I Went from Burn-out Entrepreneur to Automating my $4M Company and 10x my Productivity.
Building a business is hard enough. On its official website, the U.S. Small Business Administration purports that “roughly 50 percent of…
This Dumb Industry: In Defense of Crunch - Twenty Sided
Last week I derided permacrunch – the policy of working an entire creative team 70 hours a week all the time – as “the policy of simpletons and sociopaths”. This led to some people asking, “Why is crunch even a thing?” Can’t management just plan the schedule so that the project is done on time using only 40 hour work weeks?
The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
Six years, no deadlines, and one rule: write some code every day. That slow, stubborn routine turned a side project into a sustainable search company.
