My good online friend Andy Brice posed this question today over at Joel on the Software Business of Software forum, and as much as my iPhone has become the Devil’s plaything of late, I see a strong, legitimate case for microISVs and bootstrapping startups to drink the mobile Kool-Aid. Here’s my experience: Continuous customer support [...]
Continue reading...Want to know what your customers think of your startup? Ask them. Now you already know that, but here’s an example from HootSuite that landed in my email box which demos how to ask them effectively: Email from the top. The From is “HootSuite — Ryan Holmes, CEO”. Those three initials still have a lot [...]
Continue reading...On weekends I try to relax, but this Sunday I must make a holy pilgrimage to my local Apple temple to beseech the acolytes there to heal my precious iPhone 3G of the cursed affliction known across the interwebs as iOS4. After communicating with the junior gods at 1 Infinite Way this morning I was overjoyed [...]
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I’m struggling yet again to get a handle on all the things I should be doing: presently I have 39 projects spread out over 9 areas of responsibility and 435 tasks. (I use Things on my iMac, iPhone and iPad to organize all of this.) This is just crazy – or at least it drives [...]
Continue reading...About two months ago I was convinced the best way to grow StartupToDo.com was to go to a simple 30 day trial and then subscribe. That meant ditching my ‘get them to sign up through Amazon and then start their subscription if they didn’t cancel during the 7 day trial’ approach. After all, free is [...]
Continue reading...Community News: Quiet week before the Fourth of July weekend here in the U.S. Interesting Answers.Onstartups.com questions with useful answers: How can we communicate our message effectively without being seen as what exists already in the market? Would you put an open discussion forum on the products website? Sleep schedule and startup productivity News/posts for microISVs [...]
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If you’ve been reading this blog, you’d know I’d rather sleep with my iPhone/iPad than Angelina Jolie (at least on a regular basis). Fanboy is an understatement. However, iOS4 update for my iPhone – the 3G I waited 5 hours in line to get – has been a disaster. I tried rebooting. I did a [...]
Continue reading...Should I add that feature, talk to that investor across the room, announce my startup to the world, even do a startup? More often than not the word “should” is shorthand for do I have someone’s – anyone’s – permission to do this thing therefore if it fails they to blame, not me. Waiting for [...]
Continue reading...Trying something out today that’s new – at least for me: I call it microtasking. Take all the online interaction you should be doing: Retweeting good posts from those you follow, Saying “hi” to online friends in Facebook, Knocking out 5 quick replies to emails, Read a few posts and add to the conversation, if [...]
Continue reading...This week I’ve been struggling to set up a new mac after my trusty MacBook Pro died last Sunday (Please, no flowers.). If you’re not a rails/mysql/mac kind of developer you won’t care about the gory details and if you are, they would only keep you up at night. But one good thing (actually 3) [...]
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