Cote’s Weblog

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Over mounds of meat and eggs the other night, we derived the famous Enterprise Software Ladder. The theory goes that the development of Enterprise Software typically goes through the following stages:

Features/Innovation: You come up with some system that takes data in one end, transforms and/or arranges it, and spits it out the other end, or […]

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Matt Ray had a nice quote on hiring “just OK” people. Here’s a related, and equally punchy passage from “Ten Things Smart Start-ups Know”, in The Big Moo:

Lose the Slackers
“I stopped looking for work the day I found a job.” If that’s the official coffee cup mantra at your office, you’ve got troubles. A start-up […]

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Coté: “What do you want to drink?”
Kim: “[pointing to full tumbler] What’s that?”
Coté “That’s for me. It’s rum.”
Kim: “You’re just going to drink it straight?”
Coté: “Yeah, it’s good. Here. Come on. Try this [holds out glass of rum].”
Kim: “What is it?”
Coté” “It’s rum. It’s Myer’s. It’s not like Bacardi. It’s the top of the line.”
Kim: […]

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I got the books in today. So, our little gang of 6 will start giving ‘em out to people.
Drop me an email if you want a copy.

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