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Ich bin selbständiger IT Berater und Unternehmer in der Internet und Software Branche. Ich beschäftige mich mit Design, Enterprise Applikationen, Web Apps und SaaS Produkten. Ich entwerfe und entwickle Business Lösungen und Anwendungen. Ich helfe Unternehmen in Sachen Software Qualität und Wissenstransfer, z.B. mit Angular und Spring Boot.

72: Easily Predicting Growth Rates

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Mathematics undeniably has countless applications that are both intriguing and vital to modern society. It's of pivotal importance in broad areas such as research, innovation, engineering and human progress in general. However, it often seems that maths other than basic arithmetics is of little importance in everyday life, doesn't it? Apart from the obvious, such as all the wondrous contraptions we use every day made possible by modern technology, which in turn by a large part ...

Follow-up on “Accounting in 2016”

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Two months ago, I wrote an article on how accounting in 2016 still is a manual and tedious process. What made me write this article in the first place was the problem that I couldn't automatically get the bank account statements for my business account into my accounting software because my bank's online banking service and my accounting software have incompatible import / export file formats and neither exposes a public API for facilitating ...

5. Juni 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Software

TED Talk – Peter Singer: The Why And How of Effective Altruism

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In 2013 philosopher Peter Singer held a TED talk on the intriguing idea of effective altruism. The simple premise of this idea is that with altruism both the heart and the head need to be involved in order to truly make a difference and make the world a better place. While empathy and compassion for other people's suffering is a prerequisite for altruism, if altruistic action isn't undertaken in a purposeful, effective manner it does little ...

22. Mai 2016 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Freimaurerei

Accounting in 2016 – Still a manual and tedious process

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.The past few weeks I've been struggling with automating my accounting, invoicing and banking processes to the point I don't really have to think about it anymore. Currently, a lot of my accounting-related processes are still way too manual for my liking. Being both a virtuous, lazy programmer and an entrepreneur I'd like to automate every process that can be automated at reasonable cost, especially if that process doesn't generate any revenue. Now, as far ...

3. April 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Entrepreneurship, Software

So sollten Freelancer ihre Preise wirklich kalkulieren

Vor kurzem machte ein Artikel auf dem Startup Blog Gründerszene die Runde, der behauptet: „So sollten Freelancer ihr Gehalt berechnen“. Darin geht es um den Preis, den Freiberufler in der IT Branche für ihre Leistungen verlangen können. Autor dieses Gastartikels ist Thomas Jajeh, Gründer und Geschäftsführer der Projekt-Vermittlungsplattform Twago. Eigentlich sollte man also meinen, dass hier ein Branchenkenner eine fundierte Analyse und sinnvolle Tipps für Freiberufler liefert. Allerdings verspricht bereits der Titel nichts Gutes. Die Wortwahl "Gehalt" deutet bereits an, dass der ...

27. März 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship, Software

Varying Degrees Of Software Quality And What To Do About It

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.When working on client projects I come across copious amounts of source code, which sometimes is very well-maintained, sometimes less so. The various code bases are as diverse as their owners and respective stakeholders: A few come with an inherent sense of quality, lots of unit tests serving as the specification for the product. They're typically delightful to maintain and extend. Some though at times leave the impression of having been cobbled together in a rather ...

6. März 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Enterprise Software, Front End Entwicklung, Mobile Applikationen, Software, Web Applikation

CoderDojo: Free Programming Clubs For Young People

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At last year's Web Summit in Dublin I came across CoderDojo, a community that organizes free programming clubs for young people. Originally founded in Cork by entrepreneurs James Whelton and Bill Liao, CoderDojo is a volunteer-led 'grass roots'-type organization that promotes teaching programming to young people in order to support kids by giving them valuable skills that allow them to create stuff such as useful tools, products and art. At the same time efforts like ...

28. Februar 2016 by Bjoern in Entrepreneurship, Software, Web

Survey for IT freelancers: How do you approach marketing and sales? – The results!

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Ten days ago I published a survey for IT freelancers asking various questions about how they approach marketing and sales. As promised here are the results of the survey. Thanks a lot to everybody who participated: The survey was filled out by 31 freelancers, 22 of whom came via a link both posted on several forums and emailed to personal contacts directly. 8 participants clicked on the survey on Facebook while 1 filled it out ...

15. Januar 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship

Survey for IT freelancers: How do you approach marketing and sales?

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.As you probably know, I'm an independent IT consultant. Recently, I've been researching how to do marketing and sales in the industry in a bit more detail. I tried different approaches and made some experience with what works - and especially with what doesn't ... I'd like to share this experience with other IT consultants (e.g. through tutorials, best practices and tools for supporting sales processes). In order to get a better picture of how ...

5. Januar 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship

Chris Heilmann @ Fronteers 2015: Of Gaps, Fillers and Empty Spaces

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.At the Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam in October 2015 developer / evangelist Chris Heilmann gave a talk about our desire as web developers to innovate ever faster, mostly motivated by our feeling that - despite the drive to implement an ever increasing number of software products as web applications - browsers and the web as a platform can't yet compete with native platforms (specifically mobile ones) in many respects, to which belong for example: ...

3. Januar 2016 by Bjoern in Business, Front End Entwicklung, Software, Web, Web Applikation

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