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- BooksJuly, 2009: The Web Startup Success Guide is out and selling! (Looking for the PDF Version?) Below is a PDF of the Table of Contents to give you a more specific idea of what’s in The Web Startup Success Guide: (If you don’t see a PDF above this line, please let me know!) Older books A little background on the first two (physical) books I’ve written: Back in March 2005 I’d launched my microISV, Safari Software, Inc. and my first product, MasterList Professional. I quickly realized that while the initial programming was done, I needed to learn and do a whole slew of other things if I wanted to make money; everything from the basics of marketing a commercial product, to handling tech support, to dealing with the money to doing a product blog. Micro-ISV From Vision to Reality Having been a reporter before getting into programming, I decided since I couldn’t find a book, I’d write one. Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality is that book, and from the Amazon ratings to the the emails I get, I know I not only scratched my itch, but contributed a valuable resource to the community. Here’s what’s inside Micro-ISV: From Vision to…
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- AboutBob Walsh Bob Walsh is the author of The Web Startup Success Guide, co-hosts the Startup Success Podcast and founded http://startuptodo.com (a training/productivity community for startups and microISVs). Over the years Bob has written 4 other books for microISVs and startups including Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality, presented at both European Software Conference and the Software Industry Conference, and co-moderates the Joel On Software Business of Software forum. His ebook, MicroISV: Sites that Sell! is the definite guide for microISVs who want to improve their web site. Bob started in IT many years ago, developing custom desktop applications for medium and large companies. In 2004 he launched his first startup product, MasterList Professional, for Windows desktop, which he later sold to another company. Since at the time he knew zip about all things you need to know to sell commercial software, he researched and wrote Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality. Discovering he’d rather spend his time helping microISVs, microprenuers, ultralights, mISVs, and startups succeed he hung out his consultant shingle, while undertaking learning Ruby on Rails in order to build StartupToDo.com. His blog, 47hats, covers topics interesting to microISVs and startups. Bob provides consulting services to startups and microISVs via his MicroConsult with Bob Walsh service, and also consults on web site copywriting, market positioning, social media and product strategies.
Category Archive for: ‘Ideas’
MicroISVs and climate change
Today is Blog Action Day, and given that, this post is about the environment. Many other people today will be blogging about things you can do for the environment as an individual and those are good things; but being who I am, I want to concentrate on some of the opportunities I see in the looming climate crisis for microISVs. ...Read More →
Doing micro things in a microISV
Tim Haughton over at The Agile Micro ISV Blog nailed it today: “Teams move boulders. The micro ISV fills his pockets with pebbles and runs back and forth.” Too often microISVs fall into the trap of approaching work (programming, marketing, planning) as if they were still safely nestled in their old corporate jobs – big projects, big goals, big, big, ...Read More →
Playing it safe isn’t safe.
Here’s an anti-pattern all too often seen: a good programmer, sick unto death of being a corporate codemonkey, starts a microISV and immediately do the wrong thing: they build a safe product. It might be a software library or component, or a CMS system not unlike all the other CMS systems out there, only better. It could be YADO (yet ...Read More →
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