37 signals Blog

I spend hours reading their blog and enjoying their unordinary views of how to run a business.

Check them out

http://37signals.com/svn

Revenue means CRAP!

Companies measure success by quoting their revenue to the public but the bottom line is its all deception. Revenue (the amount of money exchanged) means nothing. I can teach a 5 year old kid how to created a million dollars in revenue.

Buy 2,000 iMac computers and sell it for $500 on eBay. You will sell those incredibly fast and easy, make $1 million in revenue but also $1.4 million in loses.

Instead of stating the amount of revenue give us the amount of profits. The amount of money left over after all the expenses have been paid.

Secret on how to Sell online

Ever wonder how to sell online. Here's the secret

JUST SELL!!!

Last year I decided to sell online but didn't know where to start. eBay seemed to be the best idea. It was more important to get started than to make a profit at the time.

So I looked around my table and spotted this cheap calculator, created an eBay Sellers account and guess what happened next. It didn't sell, and I posted other things that didn't sell either. Eventually I was able to sell a golf club. Once I sold my first item I was addicted and continue to sell and learn. Now I have made over $200 from the things lying around the house, expanded to Amazon.com, and now working on my online store.

Intelligent Fool

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

-Albert Einstein

Birds of a Feather

Business school always felt like a waste of time, effort and especially money. My professors made me uneasy because they taught how to run a business while they couldn't do it themselves.

The concept of setting a 5 year projection for a business that hasn't started never made sense. The notion that your business isn't successful because it won't appeal to venture capitalist made me cringe.

Is there a way to start a business without a load of money?

Is this school stuff a bunch of crap?

Am I the only one who FEELS THIS WAY?..........NO

What David Heinemeier Hansson writes and says feels like my mind speaking back to me. David is the creater of Ruby on Rails and a partner in a multi-million dollar company called 37 Signals that started from nothing. He is known for is controversial views and arrogance but what he says contain truth.

Proxy site for you

I have a proxy site without any ads, restrictions or funny stuff. You can use it for as long its last because I don't think the server likes hosting proxies. But if it stop working notify me by leaving a comment below.

And for those who don't know what a proxy is. It allows you to surf the internet anonymously

Below is the link:

tuesday20.net46.net

Free credit check. 4REAL!!!

Just for the record this is not a commercial, a sponsor or anything that will make me money. I'm just sharing something that helped me and I think it will help you too.

I wanted to know what was on my credit report today however I didn't want to sign up, cancel and give out my social security number to these free credit report sites. I used to work for a company that did soft pull credit reports. Soft pull credit report are when your credit is pulled up and doesn't record that someone look at it, doesn't effect it and cannot determine your credit score. I don't really care about my score because I have no intention of buying anything, I just wanted to know what was on it. I'm paranoid that someone will steal my identity and use it to take out loans.

The company is called Lighthouse Credit Foundation, they been around for 10 years, they're a non-profit organization, they're located in Clearwater, FL and what they do is help you get rid of you debt if you qualify or decided to do so. Now they don't give out credit reports as part of their business they just pull it up to find out if you qualify for their program. So indirectly they're giving you a free credit report.

So I called them up today, they asked for basic info like what you name, address, date of birth and they were able to pull my credit. I was surprised they didn't need my social security number. In minutes they told me what was on it and it was accurate.

Now I advise you to do your own research and below is their infomation.

Lighthouse Credit Foundation

1-800-873-9906 ext. 3709

http://www.lighthousecredit.org

This will speed up you PHP scripts

In PHP you can concatenate with a comma instead of a period when using echo. Commas make you script faster. (warning: works only with echo)

example:

the fast:

echo $var . $var2;

the furious

echo $var, $var2;

check out detail information at

http://www.electrictoolbox.com/php-echo-commas-vs-concatenation/

Upload database to godaddy.com using phpmyadmin

Received this error

MySQL said:

#1044 - Access denied for user

1. click on the database you want export out of your localhost to godaddy, eg. my_db

2. Click on export, and then click go. It will prompt you to save file. Save as .sql

3. go to godaddy phpmyadmin and click on the database you want to import it to

4.click on import and click on choose file

wala you're done

I wanted to put screen shots but it was too big for this blog

Removing nav bar from blogger

Ever wanted to remove the bar on top of you blogger account because you don't want people to know your using a free service. The link below explains a real simple way.

http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/2005/01/remove-navbar.html

Leaving a trail.

I listened to an interview of Collis Taeed the creater of Envato on how he started his business. Something that caught my attention was when he was starting out in order to get initial traffic he would go on message boards and post a comment and leave his trail which was his website information. I have started couple of sites and in order to get traffic I did the same thing but I stopped. Now that I look back I made a mistake. The reason I stopped was because I thought it was wrong to beg people to check your site. If it is wrong? I don't want to be right. So for now on whenever I post something online I will put my website information.

Relationship vs Skills Job?

There's two type of jobs a skill job and a relationship job. People with the skill are those who really don't care if they fired because they know they can move on to another job that pays the same or more. However a relationship job is the job that if fired you are screwed. You move up the company because you been there for so long or because you know the boss or better you blew the boss. I'm tired of reading stories about people who lost there job and are complaining because they can't find what will allow them to the same thing with the same pay. Like watch youtube and surf facebook all day. They expect to be high paid babysitters for the rest of their lives and yes I'm talking to you managers. Anyone can do your job, you have no skill and if the company go bankrupt you're the next one to complain to the world. So stop your winning and complaining, how long did you expect watching youtube and facebook for a living was going to last

I'll write whatever!

I'm sitting here ready to go to sleep and drinking some strawberry milk while I write this. Sooo good. wooo I almost tipped over my drink.

I'm a strong believer in saving money. Sacrifice now, then you can tell your boss to go to hell. However, I also believe that in order to start a business you need to spend money. I been thinking about saving some money so I can start a computer company but something always comes up in which I need to spend it somewhere else. Today I bought a Logitech M570 910-001799 Wireless Trackball Mouse for 53 dollars. I never paid that much for a mouse and I was thinking about returning it to Best Buy after a couple days because I will soon regret the purchase. But I'm really falling in love with it and since I use my mouse all the time it's a good investment. This type of mouse is also considered to be good ergonomics.

We control the world?

As more and more people become dependent on computers the more we developers are needed. From doctors office to garbage truck drivers they all use devices created by a programmer. We are everywhere. The device the doctors use to help them in their practice, was it a doctor that created it? NO. The movies you watch I created, the screen you see I created, phone you answer I created. I'm the creator, I'm a developer.

Stops and Skip Loop. PHP & Javascript

//stops a loop and skip loop. Its the same in javascript

//except the variables are named differently

//and substitute echo to document.write('i')

for($i=0; $i<10; $i++) //start at 0; don't go over 10; increment by 1

{

if($i == 2){continue;}//skips

if($i == 4){break;}//stops the loop here

echo "$i, ";

}

The wrong reason?

Love for money is the root of all evil. Quote from the bible. Money as a motivator to start a new venture it always seem to phase away. There's two schools of thought that says pay me and I'll be motivated to work or do what you love and you'll be motivated to work. Which is right? Sometimes what you love to do today is not what your love to do tomorrow though. Emotions and feeling change over time. Its something called "getting bored". It brings me back to the fact when I was a child I would get a new toy and it would be the best toy for me to neglected after a couple of days.

Honestly there's a lot out there doing what they love and broke. So what's wrong? I believe there must be a balance between love and hate. To simplify, I will relate it to excersizing. You hate to run but love to look good in that new outfit, which give you a sense of satisfaction. You hate your coach for pushing you too hard but love him for helping you will the championship. You should not love what you do all the time but you should not hate it either, again there's a need for a balance. If you want to be a champ you have to choose what you love but fight through the pain in which you hate.

Imagine how it will feel and let that be your motivator!