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Category Archives: IT Business
This week, I will be eating lunch alone at Annies down the street. I intend to sit there by myself with a little paper notebook and brainstorm all the ways in which we suck as far as our organization is … Continue reading
Running a transparent business can have it’s advantages – every time one of my kids says something in a public forum I can count on dozens of opinions coming back to my inbox. It’s nice to see that we are … Continue reading
The other day I wrote about Zappos.com giving “$1K offer to quit” to someone that worked there for a week to test their loyalty to the company. Last night, I watched a full 60 minutes segment on the “Millennials” and … Continue reading
Read this article earlier today and it just blew my mind. It talks about the importance of corporate culture, values and giving your customers a reliable feeling when they work with your company: So when Zappos hires new employees, it … Continue reading
If you work in IT support, especially on the technology side, you are interruption driven. Simply put, your day is determined more by the events on the network and computers than by your own agenda. There is a slight differentiation … Continue reading
Serial entrepreneurs fail when it comes to making money with a technology business. This is one often overlooked or hidden fact among your garden variety of business topics covered at technology conferences, particularly in SMB where most people are being … Continue reading
I don’t know if I’m just an ass or if everyone else does this but Alice really put a smile on my face this morning: Now go away before I replace your job with a php script.
Henry Ford, father of the 20th century corporate slave model and racist, once said that “customer can have any color he wants so long as it’s black” and some 100 years later we still put our process over service because … Continue reading
The last few posts really started burning the vlad@vladville.com inbox so here are some of the points I thought I should discuss in public. I always like hearing from people, please drop me a note if you’ve got something on … Continue reading
The other day I wrote a rather emotional recount of getting rid of a large number of clients. Thank you for the feedback, it was overwhelmingly positive from some of the successful shops that I work with, and the only … Continue reading