Blog entries tagged business

Bubbles in my thoughts

Tao — Sat, 29 May 2010 05:44:57 +0100

Living in Vancouver, bubble's have been in my thoughts pretty constantly for the last few years. I'm waiting for the housing bubble here to pop; just so that at some point it might actually make sense to buy.

I've also started thinking about bubbles in relation to the board gaming business. I can't help being somewhat worried about whether or not we're in a bubble here too. The problem is that it's hard to tell. Or maybe it's easy and I just don't like the concl...

Budgetting for the year

Tao — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:16:25 +0100

So, a month and a half after the year starts, I've started working on 2010's budget. Rather sad really - but the good news is, I'm going to work on 2011 and 2012's budget too, projecting growth rates till then. I am so going to be wrong for 2011 and 2012, but at least something is better than nothing.

Particularly interesting though is how much we ended up spending on marketing last year - it worked out to be about 15% of our revenue, while this year it's going to be ...