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Or how about just CE... Chief Employee.

I'm a Canadian in New Zealand. Rather hilariously, in typical imperial/metric, schizophrenic Canadian style, there's quite a few joint CEO/Managing Directors back home. Managing Di…

A friend of mine works in film, so I know the ballpark costs from conversations with him. You can find production costs for films on the net fairly easily. Puss in Boots, for examp…

$200m USD is $158m euros.. so yes, that's, an order of magnitude more.

For a typical pixar/dreamworks movie, it takes about $1.25 million/per minute of film. It can take a week just do 3 seconds of animation and all the labour is, of course, exception…

As it happens, last night, I came across this talk featuring Jeffrey Katzenburg from Dreamworks Animation: http://te11.techonomy.com/innovation/entertainment-and-techn... In it, he…

68.6 million Americans live in households with incomes under 20k.

I came across this post yesterday about using Ponoko's, relatively inexepensive, laser cutting service for micro-fluidics: http://nznano.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/simple-laser-cut-mil…

Rabobank has a similar system. Account access requires a keypad widget, an account number, the widget's serial number, a pin and the generated one-time pass. Any transactions requi…

15 studies showing caloric intake is the primary factor for weight loss: http://examine.com/faq/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-loss.htm...

I came across an article about the Belarus dictatorship back in November, on Reddit. It's a pretty interesting read: Belarus, the land of no applause ( http://www.worldaffairsjourn…

Ahh thanks for the tip.. I didn't even realize my TotalFinder has not updated.

I use TotalFinder as a finder replacement. It has a feature called "The Asepsis feature" which will redirect .DS_Store files to /usr/local/.dscache. Quite handy.

The interest rate is a measure of the leverage you can apply when buying that mortgage. Lower interest rates mean more leverage. Increased leverage increases risk. If they lower th…

Firstly, I was not saying businesses do not have to do marketing. All businesses have to (or should) do significant marketing/pr/advertising to reach their market. However, there's…

Patrick is falling into what, I call, the marketing trap. I like some of Patrick's advice, but I wouldn't follow this... ever. Patrick has a nice little niche business but that's a…

There are two schools of thought, in marketing, on giving away parts of your business, your ideas etc: Give away your non-core ideas to attract people/resources/interest and then s…

The product and data in this case is your "core" that the article is advocating to keep close to your chest while outsourcing the non-essential components that would attract intere…

If Github went in that direction, they would have to sell services to Enterprise clients to maintain/deploy the client's Github installation instead of selling the software itself.…

One simple rule of business: commoditize your complements. Apple sells hardware and "gives away" all their media. Content creators and developers are charged only enough (30% margi…