Microsoft WebsiteSpark is sponsoring 130 six-month full scholarships to StartupToDo.com for professional web developers and designers. Here’s how it works: if you’re a web designer/developer delivering sites to customers and you have less than 10 employees, I can now sponsor you for the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program. And if you live in the U.S., Microsoft is [...]
Continue reading... March 13, 2010
MicroISV Digest – 03/13/2010
Community News: Pretty quiet out there… Interesting Answers.Onstartups.com questions with useful answers: What would you do different if your startup was launching today? Does having a professional email account matter? SEO: Where can I get reliable information about building my website presence and reputation? News/posts for microISVs and Startups: Want to know how to find [...]
Continue reading... March 9, 2010
Stop hitting your Invisible Wall.
The Invisible Wall stopped you creating your startup today. That damn wall stands between you and what you know you can create. That wall you hit, that something, that changes you into a totally unmotivated blob. Why, when you know you should be motivated to write the code, go to the networking event, make those [...]
Continue reading... March 5, 2010
Three dot Friday
(Various short items in the Startup/MicroISV world I’ve bumped into this week, paying homage to Herb Caen, the best damn reason to read a San Francisco newspaper, when people still read newspapers.) … Over at A Smart Bear, Mike Schoeffler, founder of iPhone running application Roadbud has an excellent column about Startup Fitness with some easy [...]
Continue reading... March 1, 2010
The 10,000 Most Tempting Software Startup Categories
Dharmesh Shah has a great post up today at OnStartups: The 10 Most Tempting Software Startup Categories. I won’t steal his punchline by quoting all ten here, but the first 5 are: Project Management / Time Tracking / Bug Tracking Community / Discussion Forums Personalized News Aggregation/Filtering Content Management (website, blog) Social Voting and Reviews [...]
Continue reading... February 27, 2010
MicroISV Digest – 02/27/2010
Community News: Mike Schoeffler, roadbud.com: the right three words could win you a top-of-the-line iPhone. Mike is running a contest to find a great tagline for his new iPhone app coming out March 1st – details here. David Christian, Bright Spark Software, SimpleGlucose is trying an experiment, switching to the ‘freemium’ model: membership is now [...]
Continue reading... February 25, 2010
The secret to succeeding for startups: from Seth Godin’s lips to your ears.
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 [...]
Continue reading... February 23, 2010
Involuntary exactitude is involuntary servitude.
Maybe because we’ve all been burned at one time or another by a boss or client who didn’t spec out the software we ended up trying to build. Or maybe it’s because we live in a world where everything that matters is true or false, none of this messy in-between stuff that’s impossible to code. [...]
Continue reading... February 22, 2010
Are you going stale?
So here we are, starting another week at your software company. Are you excited? Eager to make new friends, features and customers? If you are not, it will show. Maybe you’ve been doing what you’ve been doing for too long. Or maybe the press of business and constantly tending to your software application has left [...]
Continue reading... February 13, 2010
MicroISV Digest – 02/13/2010
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 [...]
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