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MicroISV Digest – 06/02/2010

Bob Walsh June 2, 2010

Community News:

There’s a new startup podcast: Startups for the Rest of Us. It focuses on actionable strategies for bootstrapped startups, microISVs and Micropreneurs, with hosts Rob Walling of Software by Rob and Mike Taber of SingleFounder.com. There’s a new episode every Tuesday at StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com, with full episode transcripts provided. [iTunes link]. Way to go Rob and Mike!
Will Rayer, Ubercode Software, has a new release of Ubercode out with an improved code editor, optimized highlighting code, and improved tooltips. Ubercode is an easy-to-use environment allowing you to create your own software, Free download available.
Keith Platfoot, RBK Inc., has started an open beta of Maintaino, an online, subscription-based maintenance scheduling and tracking application. Beta participants will receive a 50% discount for a full year after they launch.

Interesting Answers.Onstartups.com questions with useful answers:

News/posts for microISVs and Startups:

If you are a Seth Godin fan (and you should be), why not get out and meet other Linchpins June 14th? That’s the day of the Linchpins-are-everywhere-raise-the-flag global Meetup – with 764 (at last count) meetups happening. More info about this event here and sign up to attend/host a meetup here.
A good post on the Facebook privacy debacle: Can Facebook Unring The Privacy Bell?
Every year Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher host D: All Things Digital conference with great guests being asked pointed questions. This year is no exception: Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and this beauty: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski at D8: Trying to Get U.S. Broadband Up to Speed.

StartupToDo.com, The Startup Success Podcast and other plugs:

Two new Guides at StartupToDo.com (StartupToDo.com is a subscription-based community of startup founders; if you’re not already a member, you will need to start your free 30 day trial membership for these links to work.):
- Getting your startup’s email out with Postmark.
- Create a US Utility Patent Application for free for your start-up, by Dmitry Platonov.
One new Show at the Startup Success Podcast:
- Show #69 [link] [iTunes]. This week Bob and Pat talk with Gina Trapani; developer, regular on the This Week in Google podcast, and former lead writer of Lifehacker.com. We talk with Gina about her latest project – ThinkTank – an open source insights engine for collecting and organizing social media responses. And we cover social productivity, Google Wave, and Expert Labs, which is supporting ThinkTank and connecting policy makers to the social graph. We also talk with Gina about gender and sexual orientation issues in the Startup World and in IT in general.
Active Scholarships at StartupToDo.com:
- OnStartups.com, Atomic Object and Microsoft Website Spark

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(If you have an announcement of interest to your fellow microISV, indies or startups, please email me atbob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject.)

MicroISV Digest Maintaino, Seth Godin, StartupsForTheRestOfUs.com, Ubercode

The secret to succeeding for startups: from Seth Godin’s lips to your ears.

Bob Walsh February 25, 2010

How to overcome the resistance to shipping your product, why doing an app to spec isn’t enough anymore, why Steve Jobs is an artist and so are you, and lot more in this week’s the Startup Success Podcast (iTunes) with author Seth Godin. Pat and I had the great pleasure of interviewing Seth – author of a dozen bestselling books including Purple Cow, Tribes, Permission Marketing and now Linchpin – on how his insights apply to our world of startups.

If you don’t generally listen to the Startup Success Podcast that’s okay. But this is one podcast you really do want to hear.

Startup Success Podcast Seth Godin

MicroISV Digest – 02/13/2010

Bob Walsh February 13, 2010

Community News:

The 19th annual Software Industry Conference will be held this year in Dallas, Texas at the Hyatt Regency DFW, July 15-17, 2010. The conference runs each year from Thursday through Saturday. It is designed for both beginners and experienced Micro ISVs and internet marketers. At SIC you can go to sessions on current software and internet marketing topics, take part in web site and marketing tutorials, participate in networking opportunities, attend Exhibit Night, and mingle with your peers at the Gala Networking Dinner. For more information on the SIC visit their web site at: http://sic.org
Mike Davis, Centripetal Software, has launched Centripetal Retrieve for Basecamp a comprehensive backup solution for 37Signals Basecamp. It provides automated backups of all your Basecamp files, writeboards and data and delivers it to you via Dropbox or FTP. If you’re interested, email Mike first and just mention mention my name, and you’ll get a discount.
Dennis Gurock, Gurock Software, has released his second product after 18 months of development: TestRail – a web-based test case management tool.
Will Rayer, ubercode.com, has updated Ubercode (a programming environment for Windows designed to make it easy to build EXE files). The improvements in v1.2 include full support for Windows Vista, updated help and documentation, over 63 tested example programs, CHM and HTML help, and many other tweaks and improvements.

Interesting Answers.Onstartups.com questions with useful answers:

News/posts for microISVs and Startups:

Jason Cohen on Painful, Surreal, and Surprisingly Effective: The Personal Checklist – if you Dare!
Dharmesh Shah on 9 Quick Tips Learned While Raising $33 Million In Venture Capital
The good people at Pingdom.com on Internet 2009 in numbers.
- 90 trillion – The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.
- 92% – Peak spam levels late in the year.
- 47 million – Added websites in 2009.
- 81.8 million – .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
- 1.73 billion – Internet users worldwide (September 2009).

StartupToDo.com, The Startup Success Podcast and other plugs:

Four new Guides at StartupToDo.com:
- Getting Started with Rails if you’re a .NET developer.
- Continuous Integration – Why Do It?
- Creating a Business and Marketing Plan for a startup. Part 1: Introduction.
- Email Productivity for startups.

Show #55 of the Startup Success Podcast is up: [link] [iTunes]. Bob and Pat interview David Allen, creator of the Getting Things Done ™ methodology on what GTD can do for you and your startup. If you are feeling overwhelmed by all the projects, tasks, and emails you need to manage to successfully build your product and startup, this show is for you.
We focused in this interview on how to apply GTD to the common problems startups face: coping with email, beating your project/task list down to an actionable next steps, how and what a Weekly Review is and how it keeps the process going, what tools and technology David uses and much, much more.
Show #54 of the Startup Success Podcast: [link] [iTunes]. Bob and Pat talk with Brian Fitzpatrick about his project at Google, The Data Liberation Front. The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products – and promotes making it easier for everyone to be able to do the same for any software product. And, Bob and Pat mull over the announcement of the Apple iPad.

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(If you have an announcement of interest to your fellow microISV, indies or startups, please email me at bob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject.)

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