Startups are Experiments

In the absence of full-time opportunities, individuals will be aggregating contract work to build a portfolio of revenue, and employers will look to outsource on a project basis in order to maximize their financial flexibility while navigating this new reality.

But it’s not just ecommerce. Venture capitalist Nikhil Basu Trivedi recently wrote about Business-in-a-Box Platforms (BiaB), including but not limited to Shopify, that “enable new businesses to be started, managed, and grown using their products.” These BiaB companies all take a set of products someone would need to start a business in a particular... See more

we came to the realization that we didn’t need to make DotNetInvoice multi-tenant in order to have a hosted version. The other invoicing players are multi-tenant because they coded their invoicing services from scratch, but it’s not the only way to do it. The more we thought about it we realized the benefits to keeping it a single-tenant applicatio

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In short, the "Github" model will do to knowledge work what "Uber" did to unskilled labor. It will make work more flexible, compensation more fluid, and the overall environment more dynamic and volatile. This dynamic is consistent with the overarching law of the internet: It gives more people an opportunity to win. But it forces everyone to play th... See more