Archives / Month: September 2011
Release: A Grab Bag of Little Goodies!
Hello friends of Balsamiq! Today's release brings about a grab bag of little new features and bug fixes. Nothing earth-shattering, but some welcome additions I'm sure. OK here we...
Songs for Entrepreneurs
I've been meaning to write this little post for a long time. There are a few songs whose lyrics stuck with me and have helped me along my programmer-to-CEO...
Release: Prettier Icons, Cyrillic Glyphs, Confluence 4.0!
Hello friends! Today's little release brings a few little goodies: Much prettier icons! The work we did to optimize our application's loading time had the unwanted side-effect of making...
Looking for an Outgoing DevOps in California
Nov 1st UPDATE: the position has been filled! Go Kyle! π Hi this is Peldi from Balsamiq. We are a three-year old, bootstrapped and very profitable little company. In...
Devising a Profit Sharing Program for Micro-Multinationals
Our Profit Sharing program has withstood the test of time. Read all about it!
Our Simple Salary Policy
This post is part of a series about our VERY FEW company policies. Read this intro post for some context. Given that we have different people all around the...
Pace, not Deadlines
This post is part of a series about our VERY FEW company policies. Read this intro post for some context. At Balsamiq, we don't have deadlines. Ever. It seems...
On the Need of VERY FEW Company Policies
I'm not a fan of policies. In fact, the tiny little essay on how policies are bad from Rework is my favorite of the whole book. It's called "Donβt...
DigMyData: Aha!-nalytics
I've never been a metrics lover. Stories like Google A/B testing 41 shades of blue make me cringe. I explain our industry's recent infatuation with analytics-driven-development in part as...
New Release: Font Adjustments and More
Hello Balsamiq friends near and far! π We're back from summer vacation and eager to get back to work. We hope you all were able to take some time...