Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Business Decisions: Selecting a Document-format

If you’ve been reading our blog before, you’ve probably already figured out one thing: we love Open Source and Apple products. Because of this, all our desktop machines run either Linux or Mac OS. Although our mixture of platforms might not be representative for all organizations, this article is still likely to apply to all […]

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Deploying the sub-$3,000 IT-infrastructure

(We apologize for the recent slow flow of posts on the blog, but we’re spending all our time finishing off our first product for the Private Beta launch and we still haven’t figured out how to extend the 24h limit per day.)
In our last article, Building an IT infrastructure with a sub-3,000 budget we […]

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Building a modern IT infrastructure for a small company (10 clients) with a sub-$3,000 budget

Introduction
“No way! That’s impossible.” Well, actually it’s not. Using Open Source technology, it’s actually possible to create a competitive IT infrastructure at very low costs. Not only does Open Source software enable you to create more customized solutions to better fit your needs, but it also means that you can spend your budget on […]

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

Raising Capital Part 1 — The Executive Summary and The First Pitch

Writing a business plan is an important step in founding your business. Not only is it a required part if you’re going to raise capital, but it’s also very useful since it forces you to research your competitors and the environment you will operate in. As you may or may not know, the by far […]

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Installing SQL-Ledger on FreeBSD (using ports)

If you’ve followed us for a while, you might remember our article ‘Selecting an Accounting System’. Not too many things have changed since then. The developers over at Quickbooks are still not competent enough to write an OS independent web-app, and no other major events have occurred. The most interesting thing that have happened since […]