The whole point of the post is that we are different than our users. What we want, or what we think is important, often doesn't match up with what users really need.
We've been using a Kanban-like approach for about 36 months. While it's not perfect, it's advantage is that it's actually fairly flexible: you can modify it to fit your needs.
For example: we look at the immediate backlog at the beginning of every week, and then look at what we accomplished on Fridays.
We also do longer range planning at a monthly Product meeting where Engineering, Sales and the Product Manager all look forward to bigger product milestones. We also try to set general launch dates for these.
We use http://sprint.ly to manage the dev process, which has added features for estimating delivery (based on past performance). Everyone in the company can access Sprint.ly, suggest features, and see what items are currently being worked on.
I think if your main source of income is stickers, that's risky. They will (and already are) become commoditized - with MessageMe, Path, etc... all jumping onboard.
I'm guessing that stickers (siloed in each app) are a fad that will eventually go away.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure evidence to the contrary is stronger. A little googling tells me C-levels and founders of forbes 100 are often proflic bloggers. Novell, Cisco, Oracle, a lot of founders of big companies in India, and many here in the non-tech sector blog as well.
Insofar as commenting on HN and other similar sites is quite similar to blogging, there's a lot of others here too.
Craig and Mark are owners of companies or sports franchises (or own large amounts of equity in them), but are not CEOs. I'm not aware of the CEO of Craigslist, Jim Buckmaster, blogging. Nor am I aware of 2929 Entertainment's CEO, Todd Wagner (co-owned by Mark), blogging.
Also on some of the other folks listed in sibling comments, like Richard Branson, I'd be very surprised if he were the one posting on the Virgin "blog" under his name. Just as executives and politicians have speechwriters, they also have exec comm and marketing staff to write blog posts.
A significant number of these people and those mentioned in the sibling comments here are not CEOs (if you seek out their job title carefully) and/or don't have startups.
After doing a lot of listening in forums, on my email list, etc... I launched http://jfdi.bz as a response to a common pain I kept seeing: there's so many people building products by themselves (alone in their basements). They want a social connection with other folks who are doing the same thing (more here: http://jfdi.bz/guide.pdf)
Did a small launch in August. It's now just over $1,000/month in revenue. I use WPEngine to host the site. It's built mostly on the open source BuddyPress platform.
One reason: a PDF feels like a "finished publication". While HTML can be dynamically updated, a PDF is the equivalent of something "going to the press".
Another reason: for whatever reason, if you're selling your content a PDF has more intrinsic value for the end customer. It becomes "a thing" instead of just being "content that should be free". It's very odd. People like the idea of owning digital goods, but only as long as they can download them and store them on their own hard drive.
Perfect description. Word and other formats feel like a draft. By having established a legacy of making finished PDFs hard to edit without, say, a full licensed version of Acrobat, it got people into the mindset that it was the go to press format.
The commute just killed me - added so much stress and load. It affected me at work (I'd come into the office feeling burnt out), and it affected me at home (I'd often arrive home deflated).
Is it the commute or the interruptions at work? I find that my commute is only 22km on 2 roads which takes about 35 minutes to drive, but it's the constant interruptions that slow me down so much. Working remotely frees me from those allowing me more time to concentration on the current task or project.
As someone who worked from home for a while but now work in NYC and program for a living: definitely both. Somewhat physically draining and (very) time-wasting commute, and lots of interruptions when in the zone.
However, many tasks are tens of times easier to complete when you can walk over to somebody and get an answer to your problem. I don't care how many Basecamp, VoIP installs and standups you have--trying to do the same remotely doesn't compare.
Yeah, if I recall correctly, 37Signals does have an office and a handful of employees do work out of the office. 37Signals clearly knows how to optimize for happiness and efficiency.
