Entrepreneurship: Scaling Yor Business

An audiocast on how to scale and optimize your business to make more profit and enhance your competitive advantage. The issues covered include:

• Standardization: making one version of what you do.
• Proceduralization: making one version of how you do it.
• Optimization: speeding up and automating your procedures.
• Knowledge Capture: maintaining and growing your operation within the context of staff coming and going.
• Optimizing at the level of the whole business: only doing the things that it makes sense to do.

Namecheap accepts bitcoin payments

Namecheap is the first major domain registrar that accepts bitcoin payments. This is a significant boost for the e-currency and takes it closer to the mainstream.

Rackspace Cloud Affiliate Program Shutdown

Rackspace affiliates received the following email message:

This notice is to inform you that the Rackspace Cloud Affiliate Program has reached an end-of-life. Pursuant to Section 9 of the Rackspace Cloud Partner Agreement (the "Agreement") in effect between you and Rackspace, this e-mail shall serve as Rackspace's written notice of its intent to terminate the Agreement. Such termination shall take effect ten (10) days from the date of this e-mail. Pursuant to Section 10 of the Agreement, Rackspace will continue to make commission payments to you for a period of twelve (12) months following this termination, provided that you remain in compliance with the surviving terms of the Agreement.

Cliff notes: If you are promoting the Rackspace Cloud Affiliate Program, you have 10 days to take down your links.