Starting up Smibs Inc. and building this companies first product puts me into a situation where I have to make critical decisions on a daily basis. Despite my experience of building businesses over more than 15 years, I still feel quite often that I just don’t have all the information and insight I need to [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Mechanical jellyfish grab trade show visitor’s attention
Festo, a German company specialized in industrial automation is grabbing a lot of attention at the Hannover Messe (international industrial trade show) with it’s self developed bionic jellyfish. According to the German IT news publisher heise online it is basically a helium filled balloon that is moving around, propelled by it’s clever bionic drive. [...]
Engine Yard saves the day
Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about Amazon´s EC2 cluster, and the reasons we did not use it to host our products. In short, we did not have the experience to design and set up a cluster that would provide the stability and reliability we wanted to provide our future clients. We did not want [...]
Amazon’s missing images
When trying to decide where to host our soon to be released products, Amazon’s EC2 cluster was one of the first services we looked at. It was in beta mode, but we liked the flexibility it provided. Unfortunately, at the time, there were several problems that kept us from using the service. Two of the [...]
Starbucks leaves big bucks on the table
We really want to focus this blog on the ‘little’ guy and talk about small businesses that grow smart. But sometimes we can’t resist when for instance one of the big guys leaves a great opportunity to grow on the table for too long. So here we go…
Image courtesy ninjapoodles on flickr
Let’s face it, Starbucks [...]
