One of the cool things about consulting with microISVs and startups is when your clients reach and pass important milestones on the road to success. Four of my clients (that have given me the okay to talk about them) have done just that:
Tim Sullivan - Spice, an innovative SaaS application for hiring managers launched last week. It’s a killer app for startups and other agile companies who need better hiring results than either conventional recruiting shops or bloated “HR mission critical enterprise” whale apps can deliver. The beauty of Spice is that it takes the process most small companies use for finding/screening candidates – email – and removes the pain while improving the results.
While Tim and the rest of the folks at Without Software (love that name!) are totally responsible for their success, emails like this are a rush:
“I was not prepared for the depth of assistance that Bob provided. I had expected a through review what I’d already done, but Bob provided ideas not just for our USP but for the product itself, helping to focus it very, very effectively. Thanks, Bob!”
Tony Wright – RescueTime, a SaaS time management and analytics tool, made it into the New York Times not once but twice last month. Believe me, that’s PR traditional ISVs would happily sell their first born for. (And yes, the second mention was a comment – on a post by David Pogue, one of the very most respected/read tech writers out there.)
RescueTime is exactly the kind of app microISVs can produce: really innovative solutions that break with conventional wisdom. If Tony had tried to create RescueTime at one of the Big Software Companies you can bet his vision of what RescueTime should be about would have been watered down to nothing.
Tony was kind enough to say a few very nice words about me back in April.
Vadim Kleyzit – Stimulus Technology – Another fun part of helping microISVs and startups succeed is getting to see seriously disruptive tech while it’s still in stealth mode. Take Web Stimulus – a server/IE-plugin that makes ASP.NET 3-8 times faster. No, I’m not kidding – I’ve seen it work and if anything, Web Stimulus is even more powerful than that.
Communicating complex technology is not an easy task; while the site’s copy is good, Stefanie Fontecha did a totally impressive job on the layout, vastly improving the delivery of the copy I wrote. Need a new microISV site? See Stefanie.
Mark Gladding – Text2Go is a cool Windows app for transmuting wasted commuting time into productive time by converting documents on your PC into speech of near-human quality on your iPod. Mark’s nearly ready to release his next major version he tells me, and was kind enough to say a few words about my consulting engagement with him back in March.
To Tim, Tony, Vadim and Mark: Hat’s off guys! Glad I could lend a hand.
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