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Offering money to encourage participation (hey Neil I'm talking to you!)
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Mike Morris May. 21, 2009.

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Replied Apr. 9, 2009

 

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Michael Pryor is attending Neil Davidson's event
Business of Software 2009 at The Westin, San Francisco
November 9, 2009 at 9am to November 11, 2009 at 12pm
If you're interested in building long-term, sustainable and profitable software businesses then you should come to Business of Software 2009. Over two and half days in November you'll hear Joel Spolsky, Geoffrey Moore, Donald Norman, Paul Graham and…
November 2, 2009
September 4, 2009
I agree with most of what Michael says, but I think there is another element at play here. That is that Neil traditionally offers "$20 for the best reply/post". So I think the $20 is just a token of the recognition of "providing the best/most insigh…
May 21, 2009
Overall I agree with your thoughts here with one important distinction. If Neil offered $200 instead of $20 would it make a difference? How about $50? One of the important things we sometimes forget is how global the Internet audience is. $20 is not…
May 21, 2009
Michael, You're absolutely right. The $20 thing was a spur of the moment decision that occurred to me a fraction of a second before I hit the 'post' button. In retrospect, the humping dog toy would have been a better idea. Ariely's book is awesome…
May 21, 2009
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Not to unfairly pick on our host, but I want to have a discussion on using money to get people to participate. Neil offered $20 for the best comment on a post he made the other day and it got me thinking if this was counterproductive. For me anyway…
May 21, 2009
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April 14, 2009
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Probably the best question from the article starts with You took your business from 0 dollars in revenue to 38.5 million dollars. How did you get your revenue that high and how long did it take you to do that?
April 8, 2009
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March 3, 2009
Joel details this in Jessica Livingston's great book Founders at Work, but we started Fog Creek Software as a consulting company. In 2000, the market crashed and the demand for consultants dried up in a matter of weeks. All the web design companies…
February 19, 2009
I realize you aren't looking for a place to publish. I was just telling you the stories from your blog had already popped up on those sites, so in the future if you are looking for the "pulse" of new ideas, etc, that affect programmers, those are tw…
February 17, 2009
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February 16, 2009
I'd keep my eye on these two websites: http://news.ycombinator.com/ and http://stackoverflow.com if you want to publish info about current news topics or items. I found out about the computer glasses, and the Google Ajax thing from yCombinator…
February 16, 2009
For our company it's about 3% of revenue.
February 16, 2009

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Fog Creek Software, Inc.
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