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  • Stay Away from Services with No Business Model

    Stay Away from Services with No Business Model

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    Curtis McHale

    I won’t be using your service if you have no business model. I’m glad the product is free but I have no way of gauging your end game so I’m simply not interested no matter how cool it is. Freedcamp inspired this post today. The service looks decent but I have no idea what their

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  • Perspective on Your Role

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    Curtis McHale

    Most of us want to be the star, or at least recognized but is that really your place? I’m a support rider and I like doing it. Working in a good team for a good leader can be more rewarding than winning a race for yourself. That’s Steve Cummings speaking to Procycling Magazine in the

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  • Maximize Team Productivity

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    Curtis McHale

    Really interesting article about making a team more productive. I would have totally thought the first assumption would produce a more productive team since each member can work on what they enjoy the most. Turns out I was wrong (which of course is the first time and don’t tell the wife). But our research has

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  • Thomas Voeckler and Brabantse Pijl 2012

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    Curtis McHale

    Just caught this last night on [Cycling.tv][cyc]. Pretty standard race till Thomas Voeckler took off at 32km. By the end of the race he had almost a minute on the group, that is a commanding lead. With 26km left he had 22 seconds on the group, and pulled it to a minute by 16km. Voeckler

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  • Intel Misses the Point Comparing MacBook Air’s and Ultrabooks

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    Curtis McHale

    I don’t plan on making tech a regular topic but this just made me laugh. I don’t yet have a MacBook Air but I’m about 90% sure it will be my next machine (replacing a 2009 MacBook Pro 13″). It’s light and has all the processing power I need for my job. I’m totally sold

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  • When to Go Freelance, and Leave Your Job

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    Curtis McHale

    Since I went left full time employment 3 years ago and started my own web consulting business (see not freelance) I’ve been asked many times how I determine the right time to leave the job and strike out on my own. For me I saved 3 months worth of money and then when I had

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  • Founders Can Easily Get in the Way of Good Business

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    Curtis McHale

    A local business I know [suffers][proc] from this greatly. but it’s often the case that owner-executives won’t do that because they believe they need to be involved in “essential” business processes. Never mind that they could always follow-up to customer care requests after they’ve been solved rather than being a bottleneck to the solution. It’s

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  • Focussing on Experience When Hiring is the Wrong Place to Start

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    Curtis McHale

    I think employers get way to hung up on a [specific set of skills][exp]. Yes when looking for a programmer make sure that the person can actually program. Outside of that you should be looking at attitude not that they have skill X. Given a bit of time and training any decent programmer can learn

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  • Launching a Product

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    Curtis McHale

    Something I need to start looking at is [getting interest drummed][launch] up for a product I’m working on. > As anyone who’s ever launched a start-up knows: It’s really, really hard to get new users. I’ll be doing number 3 and already have a bunch of people that I’d like to invite to try the

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