Just back from Tokyo with a ton of new ideas/insights, a cold (thanks Marshall! – just kidding) and some great reads to catch up with on the net. First up: Want more clients? Get out of your mental ghetto, by one of my all time favs, Pam Slim. Pam nailed microISVs dead to rights. We [...]
Continue reading... May 30, 2008
These time-sucks will add 3 months to your launch date.
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Starr Horne, creator of ChatSpring, a live-chat application. You can read more by Starr at Upstarter – the simple habits of successful entrepreneurs. I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. – Douglas Adams Freedom! There’s nothing like a new project. [...]
Continue reading... May 29, 2008
The future doesn’t just happen.
See the guy in the white shirt and tie at the end? He’s got a good reason to smile – he may just be cooking up the world you’ll live in a few years. And it’s a pretty damn nice world – UPS can deliver that new Indiana Jones V dvd to you – not [...]
Continue reading... May 27, 2008
Dispatch from Tokyo
I don’t get out much – nearly everything I do for work and fun is on the web. So when Hideshi Hamaguchi and Toru Takasuka of Lunarr, a startup I’d written about for Web Worker Daily invited me to join 3 well-known bloggers for a weeklong visit to Tokyo and Japan’s growning startup community, I [...]
Continue reading... May 25, 2008
A great alternative to 30 day free trials
[Note - I was rummaging around my old posts here and found this one - true May 25, '07, true now.] As some of you know, I’m now using a MacBook Pro running Windows Vista as my main non-Windows development box and as such, I’m accessorizing it with various Mac apps. One productivity app I [...]
Continue reading... May 21, 2008
To reach customers, layer your message.
I was doing a last bit of consulting with a client this afternoon, reviewing their soon to be unveiled service, and something struck me, something I’d so internalized 25 years ago as a reporter I was (temporarily) at a lost for words: like reporters, microISVs need to layer their message. If you’ve ever been exposed [...]
Continue reading... May 20, 2008
From Program to Product
[Like a lot of things while I've been working on Project X, recommending Rocky Smolin's "From Program to Product" (Apress, 2008) has been on hold for too long. No more. After reading Rocky's book I was happy to write the foreword for it because it's a extremely useful blueprint for all of the contract programmers [...]
Continue reading... May 9, 2008
Information Overload Tips for MicroISVs
MicroISVs live, breath and swim in a supersaturated solution of information, so I’m always on the lookout for new/better ways of coping, especially tips from people I respect. Hope springs eternal that someone, somewhere, other than Tim Ferriss, has mastered the art of staying on the crest of the Info Wave day after day, month [...]
Continue reading... May 7, 2008
StartupAgents might be for you.
I came across a new job board exclusively for startups and people who want to work for them today – StartupAgents.com. Very cleanly executed, attractive, well thought out. Depending on your needs and wants you can either use it to shop for talent to expand your microISV or flesh out your startup or stop wasting [...]
Continue reading... May 5, 2008
Amazon S3 – a boon for Micro ISVs
by Saurabh Dani, Chambal.com, Inc. In early 2007, our team at Chambal.com was busy in building a desktop & site search product, which would index remote data on a local desktop and provide extensive searches and reports on that indexed data. We were exploring new data sources which none of our competitors were indexing and [...]
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