The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay. -Steve Jobs
Posts Categorized: Business
Wunderlist Pro
Soon, very soon, we will be launching Wunderlist Pro, a brand new premium version of Wunderlist that is guaranteed to make working in teams, small or large, downright simple and a whole lot more productive. I love these guys. They epitomise the Berlin tech scene so well. Such a cool company, sexy product and a… Read more »
Ron Johnson sacked from JC Penney
The former Apple retail chief has been ousted from troubled retailer JC Penney. According to TNW… JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson is out, a source familiar with the situation said. Mike Ullman will rejoin the company as CEO. He had two years in the company, which is a short amount of time given how screwed… Read more »
The Irish Tech Startup Guide
(via frontline vc)
Mobile phones in America
As explained by The Verge.. The weird thing is, this isn’t the case in Europe – a part of the world that is often behind in technology terms, mainly because it’s so difficult to cater to a continent with hungry shoppers who all speak different languages and have different needs, desires, regulations, etc. For me,… Read more »
What being 28 weeks pregnant while being a CEO is like
Marissa Meyer explains to the newly established Lean In foundation, for entrepreneurial women… Could I really take the helm of Yahoo when I was 28 weeks pregnant? Even now, it sounds absolutely crazy. I considered if and how I could make it work: learning more about the role, getting words of encouragement from close friends… Read more »
What is programming?
An interesting few articles have cropped up recently with regard to how we get, train and promote programming with the younger generation. For sure, the likes of Coder Dojo have promoted coding, scripting and programming with kids in fun ways that people never got previously. Learning a bit of JavaScript to do a simple game… Read more »
Stripe goes into beta in the UK
From TechCrunch… Stripe, the payments startup, has today opened a closed Beta of its platform in the UK. For now it will be limited to an undisclosed number of partners, but will be gradually “trickled out” to the current waiting list of developers and start-ups which apparently run into “thousands.” According to cofounder Patrick Collison,… Read more »
Groupon drops its CEO
Poor performance in the stock market means Groupons CEO has to go. It makes perfect sense, and he knows it. (This is for Groupon employees, but I’m posting it publicly since it will leak anyway) People of Groupon, After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d… Read more »
Working from home in Yahoo!
Yahoo is in crisis. Marissa Meyer is also in crisis trying to fix an old dog. That’s hard to do when everyone is disparate, especially when attempting to rebuild a brand, product and set new goals & challenges for teams internally. Meyer comes from Google, where one of the cornerstones of the company is building… Read more »
