MicroISV Digest

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The MicroISV Digest for the week ending September 29th, 2008. (If you have an announcement of interest to your fellow microISVs, indies or startups, please email me at bob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject.) News and Announcements Jesse Smith’s Wholeweal Software, Inc. has shipped its first product: EverybodyInn, an easy-to-use reservations management system [...]

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MicroISV Digest

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The MicroISV Digest for the week ending September 22nd, 2008. (If you’re announcing the public debut of a microISV, startup or have other news to share, please email me at bob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject.) News and Announcements Benjamin Curtis announced the release of a free app startups/microISVs looking for office space [...]

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Customer Service – your secret weapon.

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Just a quick link to what I’d like to think is a good post I’ve written for the Avangate blog on five ways to do microISV/startup customer support more effectively. And by more effectively, I mean create more customers. Have a quick look.

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Fear and Opportunity

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In case you missed it, the financial and political leadership of the United States is busy right now on a little emergency debug project: recode Global Capitalism 2008 before the whole damn thing goes fail whale. The Programmer in Chief said in the White House Rose Garden this morning, “This is a pivotal moment for [...]

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MicroISV Digest

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The MicroISV Digest for the week ending September 15th, 2008. (If you’re announcing the public debut of a microISV, startup or have other news to share, please email me at bob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject.) News and Announcements Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky graduated Stack Overflow to public beta today. For those [...]

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Elephants and ants, big companies and startups.

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Over at the Business of Software forum today “Dashboards” asked a really good question: As a microisv, we often rely building our business through Google services (SEO,adwords..) but is it a good idea to just rely on Google? What are the options for a small guy to defend its business. The OP points out this [...]

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MicroISV Digest

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The MicroISV Digest for the week ending September 8th, 2008. (If you’re announcing the public debut of a microISV, startup or have other news to share, please email me at bob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject.) News and Announcements Starr Horne (ChatSpring Live Chat) has branched out and started a how-to blog about [...]

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Tips for Micro-ISVs going mobile (Part 1)…

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By Paul Golding To Mobilize or not to Mobilize? You’re a Micro-ISV and already have a product or service out there on the desktop or web. Now you’re thinking to take it mobile, but you’re new to the world of mobile apps. What should you be thinking about? In part 1 of this article, I’ll [...]

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8 new habits you need for your microISV or startup.

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Starting a microISV or startup, putting bread on the table and having a life of some sort is definitely a tall order, but it can be done. The biggest step is dumping the habits, patterns and assumptions that may have served your cause when you’re a corporate drone but spell instant failure as a rock [...]

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MicroISV Digest

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The MicroISV Digest for the week ending September 1st, 2008. (If you’re announcing the public debut of a microISV, startup or have other news to share, please email me at bob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject. Also, to make this post a bit more visually interesting, I plan to include one small image [...]

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