Thu Feb 02 23:45:53 HKT 2012 From /weblog/business

Time management

Priority - http://kw-agiledevelopment.blogspot.com[..]07/06/how-to-prioritise-quickly-and.html

http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]ment-is-more-than-prioritizing-features/

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/business/time-management/

http://www.cio.com/article/print/698313

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Tue Jan 24 23:50:53 HKT 2012 From /weblog/business

management

No control, but empower - http://www.michelemmartin.com[..]01/some-thoughts-on-managing-people.html

10 rules of success, not really very insighful ideas but still nice to take a look: http://draginol.joeuser.com/articles.asp?c=1&AID=114319

Another 10 tips for product manager - http://www.brainmates.com.au/?p=109

An interesting example of how people gaming the reward system - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/05/10.html

Interview of Jeff Bezos and learn about his management style - http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/85/bezos_4.html

Dos and Don'ts for line manager - http://blog.jezhumble.net/?p=29

8 elements of dysfunctional management - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]lements-of-dysfunctional-management.html

Talk verse Action:
All Talk and No Action - http://www.thekua.com[..]ectives-go-wrong-all-talk-and-no-action/
All Action and No Talk - http://www.thekua.com[..]ectives-go-wrong-all-action-and-no-talk/
A suggestion of taking the balance - http://www.scrumalliance.org/articles/61

Discussion about issues of managing remote teams - http://inhumanresources.blogspot.com/2008/01/1.html

Team building with the way of "pointy haired boss" ?? - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_12.html

Promote the problem maker to make them better?? Is that work? - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_16.html May be it is true that problem maker are innovator, give them more work and reward can change their negative performance to more than expected positive performance.

The most consistent and intense complaint from team members was that their team leaders were unwilling to confront and resolve problems associated with poor performance by individual team members. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001154.html

Manage to learn - http://www.ft.com[..]dd-80e9-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1

Suggestion about how to delegate to other, spend time to explain to vision - http://www.kui.name[..]E6%88%96%E8%80%85%E5%B4%A9%E6%BD%B0.html

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Mon Jan 09 22:37:45 HKT 2012 From /weblog/business

boss

Donald Trump is Blogging - http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/08/donald_trump_is.html

Bad boss? http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/02/is_your_boss_an.html http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html

The problem with Japan business leader handle crisis, some root from their culture - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20100208/opn163651.asp?source=rss

「CK，千祈唔好睇少一個人身邊團隊既影響力呀。你話係佢向role model學習又得，你話係peer pressure又得。之但係，身邊冇人就九成九都唔得。」 - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-post_26.html

How to be a good boss - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20120104/eoe074113.asp?source=rss

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Wed Dec 21 22:13:23 HKT 2011 From /weblog/business

proposal

How to promote your idea, step in other ppl's shoes - http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]ously-large-organisations-dont-like.html

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Wed Dec 21 21:25:48 HKT 2011 From /weblog/business

presentation

one suggestion about layout of presentation - http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/

Some nice tips of having presentation

Do not spend half of your talk "motivating" your topic.
Have a rhythm. Let's be honest
Tell a story.
Make sure you solve an actual problem.
Not everything you say has to be brand new.
Never let anyone touch your slides after you have last seen them.

http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/51_javaone.html http://www.worthytips.com/6-excellent-tips-give-presentation/ http://java.dzone.com/articles/presenting-lessons-ive-learned http://jchyip.blogspot.com[..]/how-to-get-better-at-presenting-in.html

The secret of Steve Job presentation - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20100215/bog103159.asp http://blogs.wsj.com[..]-to-give-a-presentation-like-steve-jobs/

Don't just start slamming slides together
Don't be a compulsive bullet-pointer
Don't do live demosDon't do live demos
Don't darken the room
Don't use age-old clipart
Don't drone
http://www.learninggeneralist.com[..]6-mistakes-you-should-never-make-as.html

An average is better than an arbitrary point
A range is better than an average
A histogram is better than a range
A time series is better than a histogram

http://jchyip.blogspot.com/2011/02/on-presenting-data.html

Tip, try to distrace yourself??? - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20110818/wvh075902.asp

Tip for using online tool for presentation - http://smashinghub.com/10-best-online-presentation-tools.htm

Compare about doing slide for presentation and information sharing - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Slideument.html also tips about creating infodeck ( e.g. user guide ) - http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Infodeck.html

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Thu Oct 27 00:50:17 HKT 2011 From /weblog/business

starting business

Starting business at rentaroder, do you think this true o false ? http://solarianprogrammer.com[..]/2011/10/24/my-life-freelancer/#more-750

Speed of deliver rule - http://steveblank.com[..]up-suicide-%E2%80%93-rewriting-the-code/ http://laurentk.posterous.com/beating-startups-dead-horse

My boss say that it brilliant, see if it good - http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

The other reference - http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp

Joey recommendation - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

And how to set price - http://www.richardrodger.com[..]rd/Weblog/demand_curve_for_java_software

Successful case of home made game - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000872.html

"You want to do your best, or you want to do the best of this world?" - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/the_dip/2007/05/but_are_you_rea.html

The cost and risk of starting business, may be as high as you thought - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post_16.html ; meanwhile, as an high paid employee may not that nice - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/blog-post_30.html

Fire startup staff??? - http://mikemason.ca/blog/?p=19

http://pankap.com[..]tartup-lessons-i-learnt-at-protoinday-1/

How to parening software product and team? http://www.ericsink.com/articles/Product_Parenting.html

Ideas are nice, but technical is still the key - http://mailinator.blogspot.com[..]linator-and-not-death-by-popularity.html

Comment mistakes - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20100910/ffe093505.asp?source=rss

Haha, very true: 有一個重點我想說, 必須要有人願意付錢給你做你喜歡做的事情 - http://enochng.mysinablog.com[..]dex.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=2862620

Few examples of teen starting their own business - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20110328/wvh072822.asp?source=rss

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Sat Aug 06 11:50:43 HKT 2011 From /weblog/business

decision

Applying Agile to making decision - http://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-strategy-manifesto

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Sat May 28 01:12:22 HKT 2011 From /weblog/business

funding

HK Govn't fundings - http://ru05team.blogspot.com[..]/gov-funding-available-in-hong-kong.html

Tips of getting VC to invest on your business, see if you believe it

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/the_venture_cap.html
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/03/the_art_of_rais.html
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.401548

Company failure rates based on one venture capitalist's personal data
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/30/vcs-whats-your-failure-rate/
http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2007/11/why_early_stage.html
http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2007/11/failure_rates_i.html

indicators of work with VC or not - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/14.html

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Thu Jan 20 23:57:34 HKT 2011 From /weblog/business

successful

She, start her career as beautician, and end as CIO - http://www.informationweek.com[..]rintableArticle.jhtml?articleID=47902662

Tom hardware sold for US$15-20 Million... I guess this is successful? http://mashable.com/2007/04/08/toms-hardware/

Successful story of local store - http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=7006092303309

Not rich not famous, why programming? - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com[..]06/07/get-famous-by-not-programming.html

Way to success in career, proactive and not too aggressive - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20110120/eoe083608.asp

7. I think I know why I admire micro-ISVs.

Some of my fascination with micro-ISVs is rooted in my wonderings about the path of my career over the long term.

When I was 22, I believed that I could write code until age 65. I saw no reason why I could not be a software developer for my entire professional career. Some folks told me that being a coder is a burnout job, but I didn't believe them.

I am 36 now, and I think I have a better understanding of things. I am starting to realize that someday I may actually want to make a career change. I am trying to picture myself running an ISV when I am 55, but I just don't see it. Running a company can be awfully stressful sometimes. Will I still want to be doing this in two more decades?

My prospects for a second career are bleak. The cold reality is that I only know how to do one thing. Instead of looking for a second career, maybe I should be looking for a way to stay in software.

This is one of the things I like about micro-ISVs. The lifestyle looks very different. The workflow looks like it might be a lot less stressful. Running a micro-ISV looks more like a marathon and less like a sprint.

At my recent lunch with Thomas Warfield (Pretty Good Solitaire), I asked him if he thought he could still be running his micro-ISV at age 50. He said yes. Warfield is 40 now, so this is not the perspective of a naive young person just getting started. I believe him, and his answer makes me wonder if somebody I will be running some sort of a micro-ISV as my full-time job.

http://msdn.microsoft.com[..]-us/dnsoftware/html/software10012004.asp

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Sun Jan 09 02:50:33 HKT 2011 From /weblog/business

negotiations

Some techniques - http://cn.wsj.com/big5/20110107/wvh075935.asp

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Fri Dec 31 00:52:14 HKT 2010 From /weblog/business

Feature request

Jeff Lash blog about features request, I think his inspection is nice. I think the success is more about what you choose to not do more than what you choose to do

http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]2/track-customer-requests-appropriately/
http://www.37signals.com[..]getting_real_forget_feature_requests.php

How to balance need ( driven by client ) and want ( team vision ) - http://whattodowearelikethatonly.blogspot.com[..]duct-development-needs-versus-wants.html

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Wed Jan 27 11:05:10 HKT 2010 From /weblog/business

outsourcing

IBM experience of outsourcing - http://www.redbooks.ibm.com[..]247424/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm

Think so, always say yes cause more problem than say no when needed - http://www.lessonsoffailure.com[..]evelopers/real-reason-outsourcing-fails/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067916

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Wed Nov 11 10:37:24 HKT 2009 From /weblog/business

marketing

P2P filesharing can actually helping music sell, according to this article, if there is large amount of people download, this is a very good marketing tools - http://www.thelongtail.com[..]e_long_tail/2005/11/the_effect_of_p.html

After you spend so much effort of promoting your product, may be you miss promoting your product to YOU?? And there are millions of YOU all over the earth? http://software.ericsink.com/entries/Note_to_self.html

promotion, mix with free service and love - http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1588

Name is important - http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]4/pick-the-right-name-for-your-projects/

Sometime, it would be a nice promotion of comment your product in negative way, some how - http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000971.html?r=11182

The official definition is that marketing creates demand, while sales fulfils demand, how Joel demo software - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/11/16.html

First to release may be worst than the 2nd one - http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]window-as-part-of-your-product-strategy/ Timing is VERY important

Guessing if we have short and frequency release, we don't need to save any features. However, in case if our release cycle still long and big, this may be a good idea. - http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]2009/11/10/save-some-features-for-later/

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Wed Nov 04 10:44:33 HKT 2009 From /weblog/business

sale

How to Master Influence Skills to Sell More Web Design Services - http://www.sitepoint.com/print/influence-sell-web-design


The programmer's definition: Quality = Stability
The marketer's definition: Quality = Pretty GUI
The CEO's definition: Quality = Sales

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com[..]iscussTopicParent=14217&ixDiscussGroup=3

This article argue that use time to research on customer is more important than make sale... may be true, if you know how to research in a good way? http://www.goodproductmanager.com[..]stomer-visits-to-understand-not-to-sell/

Will you make assumption base on yourself? - http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=212252

http://www.inc.com[..]1/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html

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Tue May 05 00:18:36 HKT 2009 From /weblog/business

negative to postive

A nice post that how a good response to complaint save the sell, and more important, the fame.

http://www.microisv.com[..]ves/2005/08/17/negative-into-a-positive/

Be honest, don't lie in order to make sale - http://www.sitepoint.com[..]006/07/29/dont-read-your-prospects-mind/

Change focus and resell the product - http://www.sitepoint.com[..]s/2006/09/07/the-beauty-of-re-purposing/

How to overcome negative atomsphere within team - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_17.html

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Tue Dec 02 12:19:25 HKT 2008 From /weblog/business/stock

Warrant

Explain - http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=7006092100815

作為空軍必須造好五點：

一、一旦形勢不利便「Run for your life」，唔好等。

二、唔少所謂技術分析大師，只以過去股市表現去預測未來股市，但過去只可作為參考，未來唔係過去嘅延續。

三、買賣Put利潤可能係本金100％或虧損全部本金。同去澳門買大細差唔多；呢個行為係賭唔係投資。

四、買入股票最大風險係該股可能一文不值，拋空可以係無止境地虧蝕。

五、買Put贏咗錢後，最好立即計數，然後用較少量金錢買另一隻遠期Put。如股價繼續下跌，則可繼續賺錢，萬一股價止跌回升，亦可袋袋平安（只係賺少咗）。呢種方法叫做Rolling a position。


http://chaozmarket.blogspot.com/2008/11/2008-11-26.html

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Fri May 09 23:36:52 HKT 2008 From /weblog/business

political

Interesting discussion of how to put middle man in office - http://manincentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/share-my-mind-again.html

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Tue Mar 18 01:25:22 HKT 2008 From /weblog/business

Consideration of developing software product

A very nice article about consideration of developing software product, here is a quote:

Most projects carried out by internal IT organizations suffer from budget overruns that occur for two reasons: excessive customization and changing requirements. In an effort to keep external customers—especially big, powerful ones—happy, many IT groups end up overcustomizing solutions and adding needless costs and complexity. One large consumer credit company almost doubled the time and money originally allocated to a new platform for institutional customers by trying to satisfy all of their operational and technology needs.

http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com[..]m/article_print.aspx?L2=13&L3=13&ar=1697

The other recommendation of developing good product for mobile device - http://www.allaboutsymbian.com[..]velopers_Guide_To_Marketing_Software.php

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Tue Mar 18 01:25:22 HKT 2008 From /weblog/business

How Berkshire Hathaway operate

Adopt from yahoo
【明報專訊】過去數十年，有股神之稱的巴菲特一直依賴他的膽量和直覺去管理上市公司巴郡（Berkshire Hathaway）。看?他的工作，你會發現到一些不會在其他金融大亨身上看到的東西。他每日大部分時間都會呆在那沒有電腦的辦公室內。他會迅速做出投資決定，但會避開會議和顧問，從不制訂程序，甚至不會要求經理們經常提交報告。他偶爾會拿起電話聽筒，指示他的經紀落注，交易總額至少1億美元。

廣　告

75歲高齡 未擬找繼承人

最近一個星期三，他全日收到了13個電話，其中1個是撥錯號碼的。所有電話，都沒有急促和緊張的對話。當天，他可以騰出時間，為情歌《Love Me Tender》譜上新詞，用來在好友蓋茨（微軟主席）的生日會上送給他。他又會親身示範少年派報時學到的拋報紙絕技。

年屆75歲的巴菲特，年紀漸大，面對的棘手問題就愈多。包括巴郡實在太倚賴巴菲特的頭腦，那麼他的承繼人應要怎樣繼續經營這間公司﹖巴菲特稱，他未準備退位，所以他目前仍然無意尋找繼承人。

雖然巴菲特的王國多年來不斷向外擴張，但巴菲特的日常工作程序，在這些年來並沒有大改變。他表示，每日花最多時間去思考和閱讀、處理少量的電話，又會與巴郡各分公司的主管討論事項。他很少主持會議，因為他稱這沒有多大用處。

巴郡總部只有17員工

巴郡的規模雖然龐大，不過它沒有公關部、人事部、投資者關係部，甚至法律管理部。它不會為投資者或分析員安排季度業績會議，而且不會為未來的盈利給予預測。它的總部，只有17位員工。

某一個星期三，早上9點，巴菲特把座駕泊在停車場之後，精神奕奕地步進巴郡總部。最近，喜歡吃漢堡飽和喝汽水的他，接受了醫生意見，進行每周3日的健康療程。

步進公司後，他與助手閒聊幾句，就走入面積不太大的辦公室，鎖上門。他的辦公室沒有電腦，沒有股票報價機。他把電視扭到報導最新金融消息的CNBC 台，但就把聲量調到最小。他的桌子上沒有計數機，因為他喜歡心算。他稱，大部分投資決定，都沒有必要做出準確的計算。他書桌後一個小櫃上，放?兩台黑色的電話，可直接聯絡他的經紀。

投資決定毋須精準計算

當天，他就為巴郡的投資組合購入了約1.4億美元（約10.9億港元）的股票，這個規模，已經可以媲美大部分互惠基金的總值。他的桌面不會堆滿股票研究報告。巴菲特說﹕「我不會聽分析員意見，亦不會求神問卜。」。

進行交易時，巴菲特會給予經紀很大的自由度。2003年，巴菲特決定買入中石油（0857）股份。當時他的「御用經紀」、在花旗投資銀行部工作的 JohnFreund經常在香港開市、即美國時間晚上9時致電巴菲特。這段時間，正是巴菲特在家中穿?運動衣，玩網上橋牌的時候。Freund形容，他時常打斷巴菲特的休息時間，詢問他的意見。

經紀代買中石油 不用覆盤

有一晚，有2億股中石油在市場上求售。Freund致電巴菲特，要求他作決定。巴菲特只回應了一句﹕「去買吧﹗」。當晚稍後時間，一位香港的經紀通知Freund，已成功以巴菲特的名義購入這些股份。Freund聽後轉了一個身，便施施然進入夢鄉，毋須再驚動巴菲特，因為Freund知道巴菲特的需要，與他其他客戶完全不同。

《華爾街日報》

明報記者 李凱茵


http://hk.news.yahoo.com/051112/12/1imoo.html

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Tue Mar 18 01:25:22 HKT 2008 From /weblog/business/stock

gambling

Investiment? or Gambling? or just seek for excitement??

http://charcoal4.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_22.html
http://kobe.wikaba.com/next/10445904.html ( 壹號專題 : 炒股炒到癲 )

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Tue Mar 18 01:25:22 HKT 2008 From /weblog/business/stock

孖展

股票孖展的風險問題 - http://hk.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=7006101203300

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Thu Jan 31 10:42:24 HKT 2008 From /weblog/business

Free Market

Myth that Free Market save everything - http://bitworking.org/news/289/The-Free-Market-Fairy

Well... then anything better than free market??

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Thu Jan 03 11:30:12 HKT 2008 From /weblog/business

Consultant

The current economics of Consulting - http://www.theserverside.com[..]d.tss?thread_id=41750&asrc=EM_NLN_476673

the trick you learn being a consultant: "I never said to do it this way. I said 'do it sort of this way'." - http://www.eaipatterns.com/ramblings/50_publications.html

Tips of writing consultant contract - http://www.infoq.com/articles/spayd-partnership-contract

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Thu Nov 08 01:31:28 HKT 2007 From /weblog/business/stock

US

Some resource of US stock investment in HK - http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/etchai2002/article?mid=2723

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Fri Oct 26 00:26:45 HKT 2007 From /weblog/business

Nice pictures

Nice pictures to show some concepts, like more control == less innovative - http://headrush.typepad.com[..]onate_users/2007/04/my_favorite_gra.html

Great peoples - http://jroller.com/page/m_ravi?entry=b_font_color_green_rarely

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