Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Build vs. Buy
So my travel was supposed to be finished until mid-June, but alas, I find myself this week in San Mateo, CA for 4 days of administrator training for Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is a very robust customer relationship management Software as a Service platform. We’ve decided at Doba to move our CRM (marketing, sales, and service) operations onto this hosted platform over time. We’ve been testing it in a limited fashion for the last several weeks.
In the past 5.5 years, we’ve built A LOT of software that originated from our “internal tools” roadmap–software to manage sales processes, billing processes, marketing processes, service processes, etc. Over the next many months, we’re going to work towards fulfilling those internal needs via the
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Steve Jobs
I hope you watched that interview with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs from Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference.
While I watched it, there were 2 things that Steve Jobs said that I liked so much I typed them out so I could share them with everyone. Steve and Bill were asked by an attendee what advice they could give him to continue to find success at his 100 employee new digital media company. Steve said:
People say you have to have a lot of passion for what you’re doing, and it’s totally true and the reason is because it’s so hard that if you don’t, any rational person would give up. It’s
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Apple and Microsoft
Whether you hate Apple and love Microsoft, or hate Microsoft and love Apple, or hate them both (I don’t think many people would love them both), you need to watch the joint interview of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that they did at the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference a few weeks ago.
Here are two guys that have such a history together. They have changed the world and the lives of Billions of people. I watched this last night and I found myself thinking back to when I got my first computer, a Franklin PC 8000. I remembered when the computer lab at Burley Jr. High was full
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