Chris-posterous

Interested in your thoughts.. Does 37signals or E-myth have the right philosophy for business today? www.purlem.com/blog/?p=38

Marty, I had never heard of the "E-Myth" until you brought the concept to my attention. And thanks for doing that by the way! I agree with the general premise that a lot of businesses fail when the techie founders realize they have no business building skills - or actually never realize it and fail because of that. While I think there are companies that fit this mold, I tend to prescribe to the 37Signals success story. A lot has to do with being true to one's principles - in the case of 37Signals, they are 100% true to their agile roots. I have written about this before on my cjsparno.com blog and still think they are an archetype for the agile software development organization. Everything they do espouses this philosophy and the elegance of their products is the best example of their success and staying power. If you look at some of the other successful software firms today (Twitter for example), many of which built their foundations on Ruby on Rails and agile development, there is no coincidence that this type of business plan (or as Jason Fried has stated - lack of a plan) is successful when followed passionately.

Hmm... now its making me re-think developing Purlem with Ruby on Rails as opposed to PHP. Thanks for your reply.