All posts by Ryan Healy

Ideas Are Cheap and Plentiful

One of my favorite business books is Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. I’m reading it a second time because I liked it so much the first time. While I was reading this morning, I came across the chapter called “Start making something” on page 38. It corroborates everything I wrote in The […]

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Internet Sales Taxes and Government Fairness

The cash-strapped California government wants to collect sales taxes from Internet-based businesses. For the third time in three years, California lawmakers are pushing for legislation to make it harder for Internet sellers to avoid collecting sales taxes, and prospects for getting it passed are stronger than ever. Passing the bill is a question of “e-fairness,” […]

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Are You Accidentally Missing Out?

If you were to go to CopywritingCode.com and look at the lessons on the home page, they would probably look like any other blog posts: a few paragraphs with a link to read more if you want. But what you wouldn’t see is how long each lesson actually is… or the level of detail each […]

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New Search Engine: Blekko

I just discovered the new search engine Blekko. I haven’t used it much yet, but the video walk-through is intriguing because it explains some new twists on what we’ve come to expect from search. For instance, Blekko offers multiple ways to sort search results. Plus, they’re giving open access to ranking data — which is […]

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Jason Fried on Selling

There’s a great article in the March 2011 issue of Inc. Magazine. It’s called “What I learned from selling shoes, computers, tennis rackets, weaponry, radar detectors, books, conferences, and software OR How I Got Good at Making Money” by Jason Fried, the founder of 37signals and creator of Basecamp. Long title, I know. But it’s […]

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