Archive for March, 2006

Customer Service is King

« 3 March 2006 at 12:06 pm | 1 Comment
Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: Business Startup Entrepreneur customer service »

There is a common notion in the Technology world … Microsoft’s tech support costs a lot (many hundred dollars per call). However, once you pay that price … they will do everything possible to get to the bottom of your problem and resolve it.
I believe mine and my company’s level of customer service is at […]



The right software for the right markets

« 2 March 2006 at 2:30 pm | No Comments
Ideas/Work | Tags: Business product design Entrepreneur market research »

I’d rather make a small software for a big/generic market or a big software for a small/niche market.
The worst position is trying to sell a very small software (small feature-set, small part of the client’s installed software base) to a very small niche market.
I hope any enterprising software developers remember this when they do the […]



Ban those PDFs

« 2 March 2006 at 11:46 am | No Comments
Nuisance | Tags: PDF Adobe Nuisance »

Clicking on a link and then realizing that it is a PDF file …. and your computer comes to a grinding halt while Adobe’s Acrobat Reader slooooooooooowly loads up isn’t among my favourite pastimes.
Half the time, it crashes Firefox, and those few times it doesn’t … it’s takes up a good amount of system memory.
Whats […]




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