Jackson Fish Market
Posted on October 17, 2007 by hillel on About, Industry

Transitioning from Consulting to Products

Signals vs. Noise recently tried answering the question of how they moved from consulting to product development: “37signals made the move from clients to products one day at a time. Basecamp was developed alongside client work and was treated as essentially a third client. It had to compete for resources on equal footing with other […]

Posted on October 12, 2007 by hillel on About

The Original

I’m pretty sure the short guy with his back to the camera is my great grandfather. The Jacksons are not exactly a tall folk. Note the scary carp(?) drawing on the left window. I think the sign on the right window under the words “Jackson’s — Quantity Quality & Varieties” says “Live Carp”. Where else […]

Posted on September 19, 2007 by hillel on About

L’Atelier de JFM

We are growing our ranks of designers and software developers by offering full-time paid internships in our Atelier internship program for the summer of 2008. We have all the standard accessories: cool location, cool hardware, semi-cool people ;), free snacks and drinks, Lego, Wii, etc. All the same stuff that everyone else has. What we […]

Posted on June 22, 2007 by hillel on About

Four Realizations about Hiring

We’ve been working at this startup thing for several months now and with every day we learn more. Sometimes we get surprised when things turn out just as we expected. But more often than not we realize what really works for us after much trial and error. This is definitely the case when it comes […]