January 2009
7 posts
Koombea Wallpapers!
Can’t get enough of Koombea? No prob! You can now have the ultra-awesome Koombea wallpapers! Get ‘em while they’re hot!
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Steve, Get Well. Soon.
The team here at Koombea are huge Mac fans. There’s not a PC in our shop (ok, there’s a few in QA). We’ve taken inspiration from Steve Jobs’ vision, his design, and his creativity. Now, he’s sick and has taken leave from his job at Apple. There’s been a lot of news about what his illness means for Apple and for the stock price and pundits have been weighing...
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Half A Million Dollars? Puh-leeze.
Clicking around on FriendFeed today, I ran across this blog post from Peter, a startup founder with a dream. And an apparent lack of $500,000. They’d done some asking around and had come up with an estimate of $150,000 to build the site they were thinking about. They’d hired some consultants and the consultants said 12 weeks * 2 people = $150k. Plus other startup costs and...
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To NDA Or Not To NDA
The other day, we had a potential client ask us to sign an NDA. We declined. And naturally, we didn’t get the business. The experience led us to an internal discussion about NDAs which in turn led to a discussion on Twitter about NDAs and there was no consensus. The question posed was, “If a potential client wants you to sign an NDA before telling you about their job, would you sign it?”
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Colombia: #1 destination for 2009
Colombia has been featured at the Boots n All Travel (link) website as the ultimate destination for 2009, srsly, it’s beautiful and awesome here, safe and cheap as can be.
So if you decide to come down here, come give us a visit!
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Rails Ninja
At Koombea, we take programming as serious as a martial art, Jonathan is no exception
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New Year, New Site
Koombea has been around since September 18, 2007. Last year was a great year for us. We went from two guys in an unused optometrist office to nine guys in two cities. It’s been a long rough road here. We’ve had our ups and downs, and learned so much it’s hard to list. The most important thing we’ve learned is what we are and what we are not. Koombea worked on several...