geez, wait a few hours and a journal entry disappears. what the heck is Paul doing surfing slashdot on Sundays? As if someone's going to confuse a little honesty with "officially sanctioned" views from Intel. Hope you didn't get your ass chewed off too badly.
While I'll grant that we're a bit overrun with acronym's here in Portland, all you've done is confuse matters by turning the OSL into the OSLD - which is the only possible way to make it more confused with the OSDL (that's the Open Source Development Lab, where Linus works).
Happily we've got acronym problems because we've got so much happening in town, there are worse problems to have:-)
My experience tells me that Portland is indeed a rapidly-warming hot bed for open source. You can't swing a mouse without hitting an O'Reilly author in this town.
There's Free Geek, 3 separate LUG's, the Open Source Convention in the Summer, two Open Source Bill's that failed the legislature this past session, the Linux Fund, the OSDL and more.
On the other hand, that doesn't necesarilly translate to jobs. This seems to be picking up slowly, so it's worth monitoring the situation, but make no mistake jobs are tough to find right now.
Nevertheless, exciting things are brewing even among the unemployed and eventually that's going to spark some great things.
I'm an MBA. Atleast 50% of the MBA training is antiquated bullshit, the other half helps alot though. The advice on accounting is good - learn what the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement are and what they show.
In short, income statement is revenue and expense over a period of time. Balance statement is a snapshot at one time of the business assets and liabilities. Cash Flow ties the first two together with actual cash (ie the snapshot in January said X, the snapshot in December said Y, we earned so much profit -- how come we've got less cash? Answer...it's tied up in recievables.
For Strategy, consider two books:
Competing for the Future by Hamel and Prahalad Strategy Pure & Simple 2 by Robert
Of the advice already presented, I'd underline:
Pull from and contribute back to Open Source projects - Strategy boils down to being the low cost producer and/or offering extra value and Open Source pulls off both.
Consider small businesses
Listen to the customer more than you talk
Most importantly, build your business on your expertise, service and reputation - not on unit sales of a proprietary solution. It's the old model, and it's too late to be pouring new wine into those skanky vessels.
Good Luck!!!
PS For a good all round book on business that speaks plain english and common sense - Highly reccommend Growing a Business by Paul Hawken
>This was done during a food shortage, with the country on the brink of salvation.
Imagine a whole country within reach of eternal life and divine forgiveness and this bastard orders a halt to the winter wheat harvest, dooming them all to hell and damnation...what a sin!;-)
Slashdot Mirror
geez, wait a few hours and a journal entry disappears. what the heck is Paul doing surfing slashdot on Sundays? As if someone's going to confuse a little honesty with "officially sanctioned" views from Intel. Hope you didn't get your ass chewed off too badly.
It turns out that some proxy servers are challenged by the Coralized links in the story. For the direct scoop on GOSCON, go to GOSCON's Website
While I'll grant that we're a bit overrun with acronym's here in Portland, all you've done is confuse matters by turning the OSL into the OSLD - which is the only possible way to make it more confused with the OSDL (that's the Open Source Development Lab, where Linus works).
:-)
Happily we've got acronym problems because we've got so much happening in town, there are worse problems to have
Corrected this on the original N4N.org story, thanks for the clarification Bruce.
Heh, CD Baby actually appeared in a photo during the N4N coverage of Free Geek's Geek Fair:
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:-)
http://www.news4neighbors.net/article.pl?sid=05/0
Glad to have you in town
My experience tells me that Portland is indeed a rapidly-warming hot bed for open source. You can't swing a mouse without hitting an O'Reilly author in this town.
There's Free Geek, 3 separate LUG's, the Open Source Convention in the Summer, two Open Source Bill's that failed the legislature this past session, the Linux Fund, the OSDL and more.
On the other hand, that doesn't necesarilly translate to jobs. This seems to be picking up slowly, so it's worth monitoring the situation, but make no mistake jobs are tough to find right now.
Nevertheless, exciting things are brewing even among the unemployed and eventually that's going to spark some great things.
I'm an MBA. Atleast 50% of the MBA training is antiquated bullshit, the other half helps alot though. The advice on accounting is good - learn what the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement are and what they show.
In short, income statement is revenue and expense over a period of time. Balance statement is a snapshot at one time of the business assets and liabilities. Cash Flow ties the first two together with actual cash (ie the snapshot in January said X, the snapshot in December said Y, we earned so much profit -- how come we've got less cash? Answer...it's tied up in recievables.
For Strategy, consider two books:
Competing for the Future by Hamel and Prahalad
Strategy Pure & Simple 2 by Robert
Of the advice already presented, I'd underline:
Pull from and contribute back to Open Source projects - Strategy boils down to being the low cost producer and/or offering extra value and Open Source pulls off both.
Consider small businesses
Listen to the customer more than you talk
Most importantly, build your business on your expertise, service and reputation - not on unit sales of a proprietary solution. It's the old model, and it's too late to be pouring new wine into those skanky vessels.
Good Luck!!!
PS For a good all round book on business that speaks plain english and common sense - Highly reccommend Growing a Business by Paul Hawken
>This was done during a food shortage, with the country on the brink of salvation.
;-)
Imagine a whole country within reach of eternal life and divine forgiveness and this bastard orders a halt to the winter wheat harvest, dooming them all to hell and damnation...what a sin!