166 FS Investing In Your Business with Equipment, Software, and Other Services

Check out RailsClips and Angular Remote Conf!   01:39 - Purchase Criteria 08:09 - At what point to do you switch/kill off/upgrade services and/or hardware?

• Lost Productivity Costs

21:03 - Justifying Big Equipment/Furniture Purchases 32:58 - Try Before You Buy 37:04 - Travel Expenses 47:33 - Quality = Positive Return On Investment (ROI)

• Self-Representation

     Products and Services Referenced During This Episode:

• BuiltWith
• Edgar
• Buffer
• Basecamp
• Dropbox
• CleanMyMac
• Synology
• Drobo
• Emacs
• Keynote
• IPython Notebook
• Uber

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