Eric Martineau
Geek Week: An Ideal Audio Setup for Music Geeks
Those of you who enjoy music probably want to have a rock-solid listening experience. I’ve somewhat over-engineered my setup at home, but I wanted to share what I use and the benefits of having everything connected and at your fingertips. In the spirit of Geek Week, this would be a great time investment for a [...]
Pay Mark First
In the early days at Infusion, we did very little marketing. Consequently, we got very little business. We did, however, excel at Unreal Tournament.
That’s why we hired Mark.
Mark was on the payroll for a couple of years and helped us out tremendously with our marketing efforts. During his employment with us, we dramatically increased our [...]
The Perfectionism Pressure-Cooker
Joel Spolsky recently blogged about a topic that I think applies beautifully to small business owners:
“You will frequently hear the claim that software engineering is facing a quality crisis of some sort. I don’t happen to agree with that claim—the computer software most people use most of the time is of ridiculously high quality compared [...]
SaaS Platform and Target Market
I came to the realization this morning that committing to a SaaS platform not only binds you to the technology, but also binds you to the business strategy and target market of the platform provider. This is a HUGE deal!
Case Study:
In 2005, I wrote an integration piece for SomePlatformProvider.com that would help small teams [...]
Chinese Menu: Good, Fast, or Cheap
When I was getting my feet wet in software development, I remember a recurring debate that happened between myself and my mentor. At the time, we were in the business of custom software for small businesses (for those reading – you couldn’t see it, but my neck just twitched and my eyes rolled into [...]
RIA hates Linux
We are in the process of working on a groovy new interface to our already sweet small business CRM product, InfusionCRM.
Our product is web-based, written in Java – and I was thinking that we should definitely check out the latest craze in the Web 2.0 world – RIA. After some googling, I found that [...]
Repository or Robot?
I was talking to the sales guys today, and they helped me realize why Infusionsoft is so cool. I’ve taken it with a grain of salt because sales guys could probably convince Steve Erkel that he’s cool…
But anyway…
Most database software programs out there follow the repository/retrieval paradigm: I put something into you (the software), then [...]
