Contacts have been one of the hardest things to get… just… right… on the Apple platform for some time. This began back in the era of Now Contacts syncing with Apple’s Address Book applications and Palm Pilots and has persistently been a thorn in the side of many a tech, engineer, and consultant for a long time. The generations of contact pain flowed into different CRM systems and getting contacts on iPhones and Outlook. The result has been years of duplicate contacts found in silos that get out of sync when that iPad in the closet or the old MacBook that still has something we suddenly need gets fired up…
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Jamf After Dark: Services, Travel, And Snakes!
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MacAdmins 200: Rosetta 2 And All The Things
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A Steampunk’s Guide To Clockworks: From The Cradle Of Civilization To Electromechanical Computers
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MacAdmins 199: Richard Glaser Talks Radmind, MacOSLabs, and how the more things change, the more they kinda’ stay the same
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Historical Chip Connections: ARPA > RISC > ARM > Apple’s M1
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Scaling From Founder-Led Sales: Sales Methodologies for Bootstrappers
Previously we looked at founder-led sales. Any organization that finds success in selling then needs to scale a sales team. We’ve looked at basic steps to help founders find success but the ability to grow means finding a sales methodology that works. We don’t operate in on island and can learn a lot from those who came before us. A sales methodology is the phased, or staged approach an organization takes to selling products. There are about as many documented methodologies out there as there are really successful sales teams. This is because every organization is different and most are best left to pick and choose aspects of a methodology…
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Bootstrappers: Getting Our First Insurance Policy
We work hard to start a company. No matter how hard we try, or how good we are, bad things can happen. Unexpected things. We share the responsibility for those things by getting an insurance policy. It’s never too early to get insurance for the business. Even if incorporated as an LLC there are limits to the protection. Even if not charging for products, we can still be liable for damages occurred in their use. The answer for this is usually errors and omissions insurance. E&O insurance, as we end up calling it to shorten things is a liability insurance that protects the company and the people that work at…
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Bob Tayler in the History Of Computing: ARPA to PARC to DEC
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MacAdmins Podcast 198: Honest Security with Jason Meller