Month: February 2009

Money is Time

In May last year when I met Alistair Darling he joked that he could “use some KashFlow” at the Treasury. Despite the sad truth behind his joke, I doubt I could give any useful advice to the Treasury.
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Left-Brain vs Right-Brain or “Why are designers not good at business?”

One of the skills we don’t have in house here at KashFlow Towers is design skills. There’s not a proficient Photoshopper amongst us. So we’ve always had to outsource. I’m yet to find a design firm or individual designer that provides good work, good pricing and good service. Someone we can work with on an ongoing basis for things like web design, print advert design, web banners, etc. Read more »

What do Jimmy Carr and Twitter have in Common?

I remember Jimmy Carr being interviewed once about his style of stand-up comedy. He said that he looks at a joke and trims off all the fat – getting it down to as few words as possible. And it’s true. I watched him on Live at the Apollo the other day. There’s no way you could have told the jokes in any fewer words. Read more »

Do Believe the Hype

I’m just wading through my mass of Google alerts and I found a really great article on ZD Net by Cath Everett called Five cloud computing myths exploded. Read more »

Can you make a better burger than McDonalds?

>In a recent blog post over on Cloud Ave, Ben Kepes quoted a “friendly SaaS vendor CEO who shall remain anonymous” as having said the following:

The app is to SaaS what the hamburger is to Macdonalds – people forget that. The app is a small part. To go global the BUSINESS MODEL and INFRASTRUCTURE and SYSTEMS need to scale… The actual application is the least of your worries. That’s why we have an average product but profit and high revenue wheras some slick apps out there have no money in the bank.

An insight well worth re-visiting every now and then. Read more »

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