Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • COMPARISONS ; OVERSING VS ???? (biz) (markets) So, as you can see, our market is

    http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/13/atlassian-earned-150m-in-revenues-last-year-but-competition-intensifies-with-collaboration-providers/MARKET COMPARISONS ; OVERSING VS ????

    (biz) (markets)

    So, as you can see, our market is certainly above $10M, and probably above $50M. The number of organizations that use INTERNAL tools is larger than the number of organizations that bill by the hour. So we probably can’t hit the 150M mark as it stands. But it isn’t unreasonable to hit the 50M mark pretty conservatively, largely because we can serve the largest organizations.

    You CAN use oversing as a single site out of the box without modifying it much. But you can also organize a multinational corporation with it, over multiple jurisdictions with crazy reporting structures and business rules.

    What may not be obvious to the rest of the world is that the shift to iterative project management has passed critical mass and the mature tools on the market are the old school. Secondly, it probably isn’t obvious that the financial products let you analyze your business but not DRIVE IT.

    OVERSING DRIVES YOUR ENTIRE BUSINESS: sales, recruiting, and delivery by looking forward. You can control your business, You can control it going forward, not looking backward.

    BUT!!!! — The old guard isn’t really growing and the new agile systems are. SO there is an OPENING here in the market that isn’t getting filled. The empirical question is, how big is that market. And really we can do a lot of surveys (and the’re very positive) but that doesn’t mean much.

    THE FIELD

    -Microsoft Dynamix AX + Project Management- ??

    “…estimates that Microsoft’s ERP business grew 4% in 2012, “mainly driven by Microsoft Dynamics AX”. “Gartner puts Microsoft’s ERP revenue at $1.1 billion in 2012, up from $1 billion in 2011.”

    (Now, most organizations in our market use Dynamix. ANd those that don’t should. We designed Oversing with the intention that larger customers would use AX in finance and buy Oversing for running business operations (sales, delivery, recruiting). Nothing better really that you can do than that.)

    -Atlassian– $150M

    (Jira workflow, Confluence collab)

    http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/13/atlassian-earned-150m-in-revenues-last-year-but-competition-intensifies-with-collaboration-providers/

    Aging product. Not good architecture without major rewrite.

    -Github (collab and source)- ?? (but it’s profitable)

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2012/07/09/cash-for-code-github-raises-100-million-from-andreessen-horowitz/

    Good for devs. Does nothing for the business end.

    “GitHub Inc is a flat organization with no (middle) managers – or in other words, “everyone is a manager” (self-management). As at Valve Corporation, another flat organization, employees can choose to work on projects that interest them (open allocation). “

    –NetSuite– $92M

    “NetSuite reported a 32 percent jump in revenue to $91.6 million”

    (Favorite quote from their Q3 report: “These two divergent results show that as mission-critical software moves to the Cloud, it is far

    safer for customers to turn to committed leaders like NetSuite rather than bet on the PowerPoint presentations of last-generation providers like SAP, Microsoft and Sage.” (Customers have lost faith in the old line or products. And the new generation is shifting.)

    -CA Changepoint (IT Portfolio Management)- $48M

    “For FY ’12, Changepoint increased total revenues by more

    than 20 percent to $48 million, driven by growth with existing nameplates and adding new customers. 15 percent of this year’s

    software license billings were delivered via a SaaS model.

    -Tenrox- $10M?

    Glendale CA / Private / 50-200 Employees

    -Workamajig- (creative workflow management)

    14021 NE 20th Avenue Suite 2208 Vancouver, WA 98686 United States / Privately Held / 1-10 employees (That number doesn’t make sense to me)

    $38/user

    -FunctionPoint-

    200-1622 West 7th Avenue Vancouver, BC V6J 1S5 Canada

    Privately Held / 11-50 employees

    (I can find 22 employees on linked in, so I guess the’re about 30. They won’t give me revenue numbers. If I play it out as 6000 users x $20, that’s not a lot of money. Maybe a 2M bottom and 30x100K/employee = 3M top. Although it sure looks like a 5M company to me.)

    “Over 6000 users”

    http://www.functionpoint.com

    15 / 20/ 30 per user.

    –BIgTime–

    Nice product. Light. Feature. Not PSA. Not our market.

    -Targetprocess-

    about 40 people. Russian. NY sales offices.

    No revenue numbers.

    Feature. Just a feature. Very nice board. Thats it.

    We tried to keep oversing away from the Targetprocess style of UI for a variety of reasons. MOst of them training and using spatial memory. We wanted to keep the ‘wall’ feeling. If you put Oversing on a projector or big touch screen it’d be awesome.

    — Wrike (new) — (trivial workflow) Yet they just raised 10M (ack!)

    Boring.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 16:36:00 UTC

  • LIBERALS GET CHEAP STATUS BY GIVING AWAY WHAT ISN’T THEIRS “…showcasing libera

    LIBERALS GET CHEAP STATUS BY GIVING AWAY WHAT ISN’T THEIRS

    “…showcasing liberal values is a form of conspicuous consumption….”

    Expensive drug addiction problem that they have. It turns out those endorphins are really expensive for EVERYONE ELSE.

    You ever watch some gushing women come to near tears at the thought of giving blood? That’s drug addiction. Just like stress addiction. Anger addiction, or thrill addiction.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 16:33:00 UTC

  • facebook.comTargetprocess

    facebook.comTargetprocess

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 13:56:00 UTC

  • REPOST (quotable) Progressivism: Incrementalism via the art of ‘Obscure, Lie, an

    REPOST

    (quotable)

    Progressivism: Incrementalism via the art of ‘Obscure, Lie, and Justify’.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 09:48:00 UTC

  • LOOKING LIKE CENTRAL AMERICA? Loving the commons is not common. It’s unique to P

    http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-pico-union-trash-20131029,0,73522.storyLA LOOKING LIKE CENTRAL AMERICA?

    Loving the commons is not common. It’s unique to Protestantism and the absolute nuclear family (ANF). Everyone else ruins the commons.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 09:12:00 UTC

  • “OUR POLITICAL NATURE”: PAPER MACHE INTELLECTUALISM. (book review) (criticism) =

    “OUR POLITICAL NATURE”: PAPER MACHE INTELLECTUALISM.

    (book review) (criticism)

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    This review is from: Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

    Trivial, biased regurgitation of Haidt’s work without credit.,

    October 29, 2013

    Amazon Verified Purchase

    1.0 out of 5 stars

    I understand the business of writing money-making books by regurgitating the works of others for fun and profit. And I understand the need to simplify works for less academic readers. But I also understand not giving credit to the people who you’re copying. Especially when it’s by attempting to avoid references to them. I also understand the use of obscurant language, bias as propaganda, and oversimplification via analogy as a means of inserting deception.

    This is a weak attempt by an also-ran author to insert his political bias into the political discourse as a substitute for scholarship. It’s not plagiarism per se. Because that would add insult to the prior work.

    Read Haidt instead. It is a balanced work by the leading academic in the field. If you read “The Righteous Mind”, “Explanation of Ideology: Family Structure & Social System”, “The Red Queen”, and “Demonic Males” you will know pretty much the moral origins of human beings. If you read Andrew Heywood’s “Political Ideologies : An Introduction” that will explain political discourse.

    The fact is, that moral codes are largely genetic. What isn’t genetic is determined by the structure of the family (absolute nuclear, nuclear, traditional, extended or tribal). What isn’t determined by family structure is determined by economics. However, this is all misleading because MORAL sensibilities are different from VOTING PATTERNS.

    American voting patterns can be reduced to this single statement, and nothing else matters:

    —“93% of blacks, 70% of Latinos, 60% of those under 30, and 62% of single people, voted for Obama. And white married couples over 30 years of age voted for Romney. Not much else matters.”—

    -Dick Morris”

    NOTHING ELSE MATTERS – WE ARE TRIBAL CREATURES.

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 07:31:00 UTC

  • MONOPOLY AND BUREAUCRACY Again, there are NECESSARY functions of government. ( s

    http://www.propertarianism.com/glossary/AGAIN: MONOPOLY AND BUREAUCRACY

    Again, there are NECESSARY functions of government.

    ( see http://www.propertarianism.com/glossary/#propertarian item (g) )

    While the definition of property rights must, in the end, be homogenous across groups as individual property rights, there is no reason why we need a monopoly means of organizing people under those property rights. There is absolutely no material reason why we cannot have polycentric governments that vary from absolute surrender to minarchy.

    Government, in the sense, that we need both a definition of property rights, and a means of common investment, as well as common insurance – and all organizations require leaders, even if they are purely judges, selected randomly by lot. (preferably so)

    If you’re wandering around saying government is evil rather than bureaucracy and monopoly are evil you’re just polluting the intellectual pool.

    The problem is monopoly, bureaucracy, and the sanction of various partial monopolies and rents by those in the state, to persist their control over the state.

    SECRET

    The chinese philosophers could not, because of the asian family structure and existing hierarchy solve the problem of politics, like the Greeks solved the system of politics PRECISELY because they were not hierarchically solidified. Confucius and Lao Tzu failed. They directed the entire civilization to operate as an extended family. (Unfortunately, Fukuyama is wrong. As usual. But at least he’s informative.)

    We libertarians are making a similar mistake. ROTHBARD FAILED, and so did his ethics. Hoppe succeeded (by admittedly strange means) and solve the problem of politics at scale for us. But Rothbard failed, either by intent, or by cultural influence, or by lack of understanding. But he failed. And he continues to cause us to fail at securing our liberty.

    While I would agree that violence was necessary to transform barbarians into city and farm dwellers, I would also argue that such a monopoly was necessary to conduct that transformation.

    But now we need a DIFFERENT ORGANIZATION. The barbarians are converted. The problem is not how to convert barbarians. THe problem is how to prevent FEMALES from returning us to barbarism via the ballot box.

    Socialism was murderous. But the threat to human prosperity is the assumption that women have the right to reproduce at the expense of others, or that all reproduction is of necessity ‘good’.

    Government is not the enemy. Monopoly is. Socialism is not a problem any longer. But feminism and the totalitarian humanism that is an expression of feminine communism are.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 07:27:00 UTC

  • INTERESTING : DAVE RAMSAY ETC : CREDIT AND THE STATE (personal finance) Never he

    INTERESTING : DAVE RAMSAY ETC : CREDIT AND THE STATE

    (personal finance)

    Never heard of this guy until recently. But his message is pretty good for average families who get trapped on the credit treadmill.

    ON CREDIT

    Myself, I don’t use credit cards. If I don’t have cash I don’t buy it. Cars included. I’ll never have another mortgage either, if I can help it. I pay and save first, then the rest of my income is mine to spend as foolishly as I want. I hit my reserves for new investments. Otherwise I live on my income.

    Now, my reasons are different: my aspiness is a challenge. Paying bills quarterly works for me. Paying them monthly is just not something I’ll remember to do. And I only take on bills that can be paid by debit card, over the phone or via email. I don’t like the stress of fighting my subconscious so I don’t get on the TREADMILL of credit. EVER. (Well, I did impulsively buy my Jaguar XJR on credit, but it was a steal. But for the exotics, and all others, I paid cash.)

    Most of my income volatility in life is driven by business investments which usually require extraordinary income sacrifice (at least for me they have.)

    And I’ve carried from 4M to 20M in commercial credit for most of my adult life. (Which I find humorous for some reason.)

    ON WOMEN:

    There are a lot of women who get their happiness from nesting. And they make a wonderful nest. But the problem is that you can’t lower their standard of living if you want to take a business risk. So my advice is to make sure that you know what partner you’re buying into. Those women are usually a pleasure to live with. But they are hard to build financial wealth with.

    ON THE STATE:

    Taxes and Credit are the fuel of the state. The libertarian in me seeks to starve the state wherever possible.

    SO I’M ALL FOR THE DAVE RAMSEY and VOLITIONAL movements. 🙂 Mostly as a rebellion against the state. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 06:44:00 UTC

  • I just cannot keep up with the drinking in this culture of semi professional alc

    I just cannot keep up with the drinking in this culture of semi professional alcoholics.

    I surrender. I cant make the team. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-29 06:25:00 UTC

  • THE WAR AGAINST WHITE MARRIED PEOPLE “93% of blacks, 70% of Latinos, 60% of thos

    THE WAR AGAINST WHITE MARRIED PEOPLE

    “93% of blacks, 70% of Latinos, 60% of those under 30, and 62% of single people, voted for Obama. And white married couples over 30 years of age voted for Romney. Not much else matters.”

    –Dick Morris

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-28 14:48:00 UTC