Lennard from Rusty Axe sent me an email asking about advertising space on my website. Paid banners from individuals weren’t originally in my business plan. Not that I have much of a business plan - I’m making free browser based games after all…
But the more I thought about it, the more it kinda made sense. […]

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This really confuses me.
Assuming commodity products, the only differentiator for small businesses is the service(s) they can provide - So why do some places charge extra for a bit of tomato sauce to put on my chips? (Or french fries, or freedom fries or whatever you Americans call chips…) Better yet, why don’t they just […]

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I’m a big fan of reading post-mortems on game development. If that sounds somewhat morbid to you, a post-mortem is basically a post-production overview of what went right and what went wrong. And any insights gained after the product has shipped out the door. Whether your product was an amazing success or an absolute bomb, […]

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Many software companies sell their products online, before I made Starcars freeware I had an account with BMTmicro to handle payment processing and full version distribution.
This was good. It meant that they could handle all that backend stuff and I didn’t have to worry about getting an expensive merchant account with some bank. As […]

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In High School you are told that businesses are involved in two major sectors - The Product Sector and The Service Sector.
If you are in the product sector then you are selling something tangible, such as a book, or a lawnmower or a photocopier. And if you are in the service industry then you are […]

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