Tag: SMB
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The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care – “Another way to put this is that to retain workers, wages in stagnant-productivity sectors must rise to match those in (equally labor-skilled) high-productivity sectors. That means paying more for the same level of care, simply to keep the labor force from leaving”
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Our Favorite Management Tips of 2024 – “Add up your total score. If you rated any of these items a 4 or a 5, you have some workaholic tendencies. But if your total score is 15 or above, you’re displaying significant signs of workaholism.”
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Does Market Share Still Matter? – “we find that the positive relationship between market share and profitability generally still holds, but that it weakens with greater digital transformation. This means that market share increases translate into lower profitability gains for highly digitalized compared to less-digitalized companies. Additionally, it implies that digital transformation benefits smaller firms…
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Why We Hate Working for Big Companies – Capitalism knows the central planning committee is bad, so, logically, Capitalism runs on corporations that are central planning committees.
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The secret of selling your product to enterprises – Sales is hard and expensive because of all the time and activities it takes, only the multi-quarter timeline, etc.
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The finger-wagger is usually just me finger-wagging at myself
# A reminder that having fun is possible It’s hard finding fun – and especially joy – in life. Family is frequently just about getting through the every day grind and fighting to have some time to “hear myself thinking.” Even getting together with friends can seem like planning an all hands meeting. Beware of…
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🗂 Link: On-premise IT-voorziening komt nog steeds het meest voor in Nederland
more than three-quarters of Dutch companies have an on-premise IT facility Source: On-premise IT-voorziening komt nog steeds het meest voor in Nederland
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🗂 Link: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion
There’s yet to be any real evidence that Uber’s business model will ever do anything other than burn investors’ money to make traffic worse. Source: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion
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Link: Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞)
“It’s too soon to have a good sample size. But it seems to usually work. I think it works because there is nobody at Mr. Smith’s workplace – maybe nobody in the entire world – who cares whether Mr. Smith brings a chair into work. Somebody wrote up a procedure for employees using special chairs,…
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Link: Worldwide SMB IT Spending to Pass $600 Billion in 2018, Driven by Mid-Market Demand for Software and Services, According to IDC
For companies under 1,000 people, IDC “forecasts total IT spending by small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to be nearly $602 billion in 2018, an increase of 4.9% over 2017. With a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% for the 2016-2021 forecast period, spending by businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees on IT hardware, software,…
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People (say they) will spend more on clothes that actually fit
It’s a sore point for many shoppers, who are ready and eager to spend more on designer clothes if only they were available: 78% of respondents in a recent survey of plus-size shoppers said that they’d be willing to spend more money if designers offered more options, and 80% said they’d likely purchase an item…
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Global SMB IT spend heading towards $600 billion
“It predicts that global SMB IT spend – defined as firms with between one and 999 employees – could reach $597 billion this year, equating to an average of $700 per full-time employees and just over $8,000 per SMB business.” Global SMB IT spend heading towards $600 billion
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We are afflicted with the same disease. It’s hard (impossible?) to find a day job that is consuming so we look for other stuff to fill that void, which of course just makes us insane As one of my friends put it. Indeed!
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Coté Memo #063: Working at Pivotal and Yak shaving
Follow-up In reponse to the analyst access commentary from last time, a reader wrote in: Are you familiar with Securosis? They’re a security-only analyst firm. Their business model is pretty different – everything they publish is free, and make money through sponsorship and inquiries etc. They have a model they call totally transparent research. I…
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Bottoms up, viral spread still works
Cloud startups like Dropbox pose a problem because they are viral in their sign-up and billing. This is what has given them a foot in the door at SMBs and the departments of big companies, and resulted in CIOs’ business-collaboration platforms becoming based on Dropbox before they know it. Also, some good insights into IBM…
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