<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>JoeUser Forums » RSS Feed » Business Posts</title><link>https://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/JoeUser/forum/27</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2026 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>Recent Posts In Business</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 2:57:33 PM -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 2:57:33 PM -0400</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>kwilas@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/460279</comments><description><![CDATA[ Our company is relatively small in size.&#160; In total, we have less than a hundred people. And yet, our software is used by millions of people and we produce many new pieces of software a year.    When we do press tours of the company, it inevitably comes up, how do we do it?&#160; The #1 answer is: Very low turnover.&#160; It’s absolutely essential.&#160; Someone whose been at their job for 10 years is far more productive than someone who is new, even if that person has industry experience...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/460279</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/460279</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 9:56:14 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2015-01-11T21:56:14-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Ideology free hiring takes care of itself</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/455741</comments><description><![CDATA[&#160;    When I was 20 I had nothing. I was working multiple jobs to pay for college and started Stardock as a way to pay for school.&#160; 20 years later, it’s now worth 9 figures.&#160; How did this happen?    The number 1 rule for success I’ve found is to build partnerships. This can mean your employees and it can mean external companies, contractors, etc. that you team up with.&#160;     What does “building” partnerships mean? To me, it means, working towards  their  success.&#160; Th...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/455741</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/455741</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 5:48:40 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2014-09-08T05:48:40-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Secrets of business: Partnerships</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/447613</comments><description><![CDATA[   As pressure mounts to raise the wages of fast food workers, advocates may want to take note that such wage increases eventually pass a threshold where it makes financial sense to simply invest in automation. As Grocery Store cashiers learned, these jobs are not a given. We are all competing not just with each other but with robots.&#160;     One of the primary reasons that the gap between the rich and poor has increased so much in the past 20 years has been the rise in IT.&#160; Once we pur...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/447613</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/447613</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2014 1:14:13 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2014-08-13T01:14:13-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Automatic Burger Machine: Coming soon to a McDonalds near you</title></item><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/448773</comments><description><![CDATA[     Not that I expect those people who are wholly invested in their hate to retract or express any regret for the death threats, smearing, or abuse they sent my way, but as any lawyer who is familiar with employment law can tell you, this is as clear of a victory as you can get.&nbsp; I said at the time that we wouldn&rsquo;t pay out a dime (except for lawyers obviously) and that only an apology letter would satisfy us.  Anyone who has ever run a business with lots of employees knows that s...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/448773</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/448773</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2013 6:02:59 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-10-18T18:02:59-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Vindication</title></item><item><author>Jay Walker</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/29740</comments><description><![CDATA[   This is a serialized version of an internet book entitled:   “The Brink’s Truck Burst Open On Wall Street! A Holistic Approach to Finding The Easy Money In Common Stocks”   This is Serialization 5. To find Serialization 4, please go here,  Link , while Serialization 6 will be posted HERE.  This book will be serialized over a several month period. It will interest people who want to know whether the price of a stock is fair, or priced too high. It will aid you in outperforming the genera...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/29740</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/29740</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2013 7:53:52 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-10-10T07:53:52-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Brink's Truck - Serialization 5</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/448143</comments><description><![CDATA[ In October we turn 20 years.&#160; As some of you know, Stardock started out as a 1-man shop. I was a college student paying my own way through school and I started my business to help pay for school until I could find a real job.&#160;     When I incorporated Stardock, I was 22 years old (I’m 42 now).&#160; I had no idea what I was doing. I knew nothing on business. And ultimately, I gave up trying to get a “real job” because I was having too much fun doing Stardock.&#160;     During the p...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/448143</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/448143</link><pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 5:34:39 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-09-09T17:34:39-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Stardock turns 20: Ten lessons I learned being an entrepreneur</title></item><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/446568</comments><description><![CDATA[I&#160; never intended to start a company. I wanted to make CPUs.    Monroe Bank and Trust interviewed me for our 20th corporate birthday.&#160; You can check it out here:     http://www.monroebankandtrustcares.com/2013/06/focus-on-our-customers-brad-wardell-and.html   ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/446568</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/446568</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:10:48 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-07-11T12:10:48</pubDateParsed><title>Stardock turns 20 in 2013: Monroe Bank and Trust article</title></item><item><author>DrJBHL</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/441619</comments><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;  The Australian Parliament has finally gotten off its duff and is probing the price gouging there.  This is getting ridiculous. It&rsquo;s actually cheaper for an Australian to fly to the US and buy CS6 here than to buy it in Oz! Well, Adobe&rsquo;s going 100% digital and dropping box sets, so that might well not be happening any more, but the Australian legislature is demanding answers. Good for them, and high time. This has been going on for decades.  Companies often charge a prem...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/441619</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/441619</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 9:05:50 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-06-20T09:05:50-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Price Gouging in Oz: MS, Adobe and Apple in Well Deserved Tight Spot.</title></item><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/445281</comments><description><![CDATA[The Atlantic found this highly interesting cartoon from the 1950s:            http://m.theatlantic.com/video/index/276344/the-wonderful-world-of-capitalism/     We are gradually losing this dynamic as the United States (and Europe) move away from a manufacturing economy and into an information economy and it’s not likely to get better.&#160;     Where in the 50s, the “captains of industry” had a symbiotic relationship with their workforce – their objectives required the labor and ingenui...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/445281</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/445281</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 6:00:12 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-06-03T18:00:12-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>The connection between a strong middle class and a healthy economy</title></item><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/442125</comments><description><![CDATA[The number of tech companies in Michigan is…well not very high.&#160; And I’ve noticed a trend over the past 20 years: As time goes on, an ever increasing percentage of my friends that I talk to socially boil down to one of 3 categories:         Lawyers.&#160; When I started the company, I didn’t know any lawyers. The first lawyer I hired I found through the yellow pages. At our 10 year anniversary, I think about a quarter of my active friends were lawyers. Today, it’s probably about half.&#16...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/442125</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/442125</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 6:58:31 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-05-16T18:58:31-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>The weird social life of a tech CEO in Michigan</title></item><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/443403</comments><description><![CDATA[I was struck by how many Steve Jobs biographers have emphasized how important it was that Jobs got kicked out of Apple. That experience changed him and in the long-run, made him a much better businessman.    Pride before the fall is a truism and even being aware of it doesn’t prevent one from falling into into that trap.    Right now, as I write this, Stardock is doing better than at any time in its history. But it’s only doing so well now because of changes we made 3 years ago. Because 3 ye...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/443403</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/443403</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 9:39:01 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-04-26T09:39:01-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>In business, setbacks can be life saving</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/441128</comments><description><![CDATA[Is to connect super talented people together and get the hell out of their way.&#160; I am continually amazed at how much these guys/gals are able to do with so little.    2012 was a pretty awesome year but 2013 is looking to be insane.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/441128</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/441128</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 8:36:07 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-03-12T08:36:07-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>My job at Stardock</title></item><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/439943</comments><description><![CDATA[Full priced Stardock title releases of the last 5 years as measured on Metacritic.           One of these is not like the others.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/439943</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/439943</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 5:24:38 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-02-11T17:24:38-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Game development is fragile</title></item><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/439177</comments><description><![CDATA[I am having a bit of a conundrum. On the one hand, I’ve been promising my family to work fewer hours and managed to do that to a large extent over the last couple.&#160; On the other hand, last year was such a good year and this year looks even better that it presents so many exciting and varied opportunities….if only there were more hours.    The accountants haven’t turned over the final numbers but broadly speaking, it appears our sales overall increased by about 3X over 2011, which, in itse...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/439177</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/439177</link><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 3:54:06 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-01-17T03:54:06-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>So now what?</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/433644</comments><description><![CDATA[This week, the hard hitting reporters from Gawker bring you:    “The CEO Who Built Himself America’s Largest House Just Threatened to Fire His Employees if Obama’s Elected” [actual headline]     http://gawker.com/5950189/the-ceo-who-built-himself-americas-largest-house-just-threatened-to-fire-his-employees-if-obamas-elected     This bad BAD man also has a LARGE house. What a monster.     [editor’s note: Sure, we could have simply stated that this man sent an email to his employees explai...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/433644</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/433644</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 7:17:50 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2013-01-07T07:17:50-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>This week on the BAD BAD CEO MAN</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/436749</comments><description><![CDATA[The Genius at Oatmeal does it again. Here is a tiny snippet:        http://theoatmeal.com/comics/making_things   Read the whole thing.  And now a message to the hateful, degenerate scum of the Internet:  &nbsp;   Dear soul sucking trolls,  If you&rsquo;ve publicly posted that you won&rsquo;t buy stuff from my company because you don&rsquo;t like me then I say to you: Thank you. The last thing I want are horrible stupid people benefiting from my work.&nbsp; I realize that things I p...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/436749</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/436749</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:26:58 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-11-29T09:26:58</pubDateParsed><title>The Oatmeal: Making things and a response to haters on the net</title></item><item><author>myfist0</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/437539</comments><description><![CDATA[     No Comments on CBC channel so I thought I would post it here. Travelers&nbsp;beware.&nbsp;    ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/437539</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/437539</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 7:39:31 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-11-29T07:39:31-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Budget Rent a Car Whistle Blowers</title></item><item><author>LORD-ORION</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/434253</comments><description><![CDATA[So I guess I hit my capacity to manually manage my acquired knowledge... and I need some software to streamline things before I smash my head against a wall.  Specifically I have amassed about 500GBs of assorted personal notes in various forms from plain text to multi-media notes.  Is anybody using any software out there they&#39;ve found useful?  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/434253</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/434253</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 1:19:04 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-11-26T13:19:04-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>How to manage your personal knowledge?</title></item><item><author>Frogboy</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/432345</comments><description><![CDATA[ &#160;           (1994 to 1999) OS/2 era    &#160;           &#160;    (2000 to 2011) Windows era    &#160;    &#160;             (2012 –) New Era ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/432345</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/432345</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 2:03:49 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-09-25T14:03:49-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Stardock logos over time</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/431128</comments><description><![CDATA[First off, I want to thank all the people who have written their kind words of support these past few days.  I wish I could say this is the first time we&rsquo;ve had to deal with a frivolous lawsuit and I wish I could say it was the last. It happens. It&rsquo;s business. The only difference here is that one party doesn&rsquo;t normally leak this sort of thing out to get press coverage.  It is amazing how many people will look at a bunch of unsubstantiated allegations and assume they&rsquo;r...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/431128</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/431128</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:17:55 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-09-16T09:17:55</pubDateParsed><title>The Internet isn&amp;rsquo;t real life</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/431359</comments><description><![CDATA[While the unemployment rate nationally remains over 8%, the unemployment rate in the tech industry is basically zilch. Software developers and game studios can&#39;t hire people fast enough and fiercely compete for the talent out there.  This is why companies fiercely guard their company cultures. When every person at a given company knows that they can easily find another job if they so choose, the onus is on companies to make sure that the "work experience" is such that they have an incentiv...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/431359</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/431359</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 5:28:06 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-09-13T05:28:06-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Why companies fiercely protect their cultures</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/430919</comments><description><![CDATA[  What kind of place do you want to work at?     Stardock&rsquo;s a pretty fun place to work.&nbsp; We have almost no turn over and morale is pretty high.&nbsp; It is, however, a nerdy place. That means there&rsquo;s lots of references to Monty Python, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Robot Chicken that sometimes float around. &nbsp;That is to say, it&#39;s not a place for everyone. When we interview people, we make some effort to make sure people know that Stardock is a silly place. &nbsp;People bri...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/430919</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/430919</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 12:43:40 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-09-07T09:43:40</pubDateParsed><title>No, it&amp;rsquo;s not up to everyone else to adapt to you</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/430922</comments><description><![CDATA[     ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/430922</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/430922</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 7:08:49 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-09-07T07:08:49-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Fun on the Internet</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/429544</comments><description><![CDATA[Guys like me aren’t supposed to get “rich”. When you look at the most successful (or rich) people in the tech industry they usually have remarkably similar backgrounds.    By contrast, guys like me are supposed to be relegated to some back lab coding drivers.&#160; That was, when I was in college, the dream.&#160; Of course, that dream didn’t come true because I couldn’t afford college and had to work multiple jobs at once to pay for school. I discovered that the best way to make money was to ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/429544</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/429544</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 8:22:52 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-08-27T08:22:52-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Unlikely success</title></item><item><author>Draginol</author><comments>https://forums.joeuser.com/429523</comments><description><![CDATA[The more well known you are, the less control one has over the narrative. That’s why those who try to “leak” things to the media or try to manipulate the media narrative are playing with fire.&#160; Most situations situations are fairly boring. Boring doesn’t generate page views. As a result, there is a tendency to spice those headlines up.     Brad: The Narrative     To use myself as an example, here are some facts vs. narratives I’ve read.                      Issue            Narrative ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.joeuser.com/429523</guid><link>https://forums.joeuser.com/429523</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 2:26:18 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2012-08-21T14:26:18-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Facts vs. Narrative on the Internet</title></item></channel></rss>