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Business
- The Slicehost Story
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GeekDesk
- Exit Interview: Founders look back at acquisitions by Google, AOL, Microsoft, and more
- Every Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud in one place
- Quote: Spinfree had a dirty little secret: It wasn…
- How Intellum switched from making a plan for VCs to making a product for customers
- Exit Interview: Newsvine's Mike Davidson
- Link: Mixergy interview with Jason about Sortfolio and more
- Forget passion, focus on process
- Link: SvN Flashback: Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs (Guy gets it right)
- Quote: What’s more, delegating isn’t…
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: SparkFun
- Real time vs. slow time – and a defense of sane work hours
- Exit interview: Jaiku's Jyri Engeström
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, and Proud: The story of Z. Vex' oddball effects pedals
- The problem with the tech world’s “swing for the fences” approach
- Quote: Basecamp was done almost entirely without…
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Goldstar
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Coudal
- Exit Interview: Ask Jeeves' acquisition of Bloglines
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree
- Exit Interview: Farhad Mohit of Shopzilla
- How to get good at making money
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: FlightAware
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Rivendell
- Scott Heiferman looks back at Meetup's bet-the-company moment
- [Podcast] Episode #25: Hiring
- Tim Ferriss on tolerable mediocrity, false idols, diversifying your identity, and the advice he gives startups
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: BigCommerce
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: InsuranceAgents.com
- Video: At TEDxMidwest, Jason explains why the office…
- The story of Polaroid inventor Edwin Land, one of Steve Jobs' biggest heroes
- Another round of lessons learned from our new team-based way of working
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Admoda
- Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Alien Skin Software
- The Big Think interview, take two
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: GitHub
- Link: Managing Conflict
- Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: iTeleport
- Bob Lefsetz: "The whole music business infrastructure is about selling out"
- You couldn't pay me to work for Ballmer
- Step one is admitting you have a problem
- PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT
- The next generation bends over
- The bar for success in our industry is too low
- Forget the resume, kill on the cover letter
- There's always time to launch your dream
- Ask 37signals: 10 ways to "get ink"
- Why Enterprise Software Sucks
- You're not on a fucking plane (and if you are, it doesn't matter)!
Design
- Behind the scenes: Reinventing our Default Profile Pictures
- Behind the scenes: Highrise marketing site A/B testing part 1
- What happens to user experience in a minimum viable product?
- Lessons learned from implementing Highrise's custom fields feature
- Ten design lessons from Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture
- Flashback: Every time you add something you take something away
- Link: SvN Flashback: It just doesn’t matter
- How nature and naiveté helped Paul MacCready build a human-powered airplane in only six months
- The Emeco 1006 chair
- How Makalu Interactive created the international iPhone hit RaceSplitter
- Behind the scenes: 37signals.com Redesign
- George Nakashima: "It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value"
- Ryan's talk at Future of Web Apps 2010, London
- A look at the design process of aviation innovator Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson
- The first step is to start
- Basecamp home page redesign
- Design Decisions: Calling out to existing customers on signup
- How do you turn inspiration into skill?
- Hovers (and power users) still have a healthy future
- "Designing with Forces" – How to apply Christopher Alexander in everyday work
- Video: I gave a talk on “UI Fundamentals for…
- A shorthand for designing UI flows
- The different sketch styles of the designers at 37signals
- Writing Decisions: Headline tests on the Highrise signup page
- Why we skip Photoshop
- Microsoft System Center Ad
- iPhone: Context over consistency
- How Apple's small things influence their big things
- The technology of OLPC's hundred dollar laptop
- The 10 most popular newspaper typefaces
Programming
- Link: SvN Flashback: Essential vs. Non-Essential
- How to hire a programmer when you're not a programmer
- [Podcast] Episode #22: Programming roundtable (Part 3 of 3)
- [Podcast] Episode #21: Programming roundtable (Part 2 of 3)
- [Podcast] Episode #20: Programming roundtable (Part 1 of 3)
- Big Think interview with David
- Device-scale user interface elements in iOS Mobile Safari
- Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding
- Ask 37signals: How do you document code?
Support
Sysadmin
Uncategorized
Writing
- SvN Flashback: Eureka! We’re editors
- On Writing: The 1972 Chouinard Catalog that changed a business – and climbing – forever
- All the "wrong" things we did with REWORK
- Tools for editing REWORK
- Why is business writing so awful?
- [On Writing] Saddleback Leather tells its story and promotes through education
- Writing Decisions: Saving space without losing meaning
- [On writing] Constraints, nightmares vs. dreams, seeking haters, etc.
- [On writing] John Gruber, Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, and Judge Judy
- Why most copywriting on the web sucks
- Four letter words
- Excerpts from Stephen King's "On Writing"
- [On Writing] Keeping it real
- [On Writing] Describing a slice instead of the whole pie
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