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MicroISV Digest – 03/13/2010

March 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 your customers? This is the post for [...]

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MicroISV Digest – 02/27/2010

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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 free [...]

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MicroISV Digest – 02/13/2010

February 13, 2010
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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 software [...]

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MicroISV Digest – 01/30/2010

January 30, 2010
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Community News:

Rob Bazinet, Stillriversoftware.com, has purchased Expens’d from Atlantic Dominion Solutions (Robert Dempsey). This is a good move for Rob, Robert and Expens’d’s customers. It’s also a good model – on both sides – how to create and grow value.
Michael Douma, IDEA, has launched ColorRotate – a 3D color picker for PhotoShop and other programs [...]

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MicroISV Digest – 01/20/2010

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Community News:

Anthony Williams, Just Software Solutions Ltd, Tired of waiting for the upcoming C++ standard (C++0x)’s support of multithreading and concurrency? Just Software Solutions’ just::thread library is an implementation of the C++0x thread library for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and g++. V1.3 introduces support for the new std::async function for launching asynchronous tasks, support for [...]

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Clarify your story.

January 20, 2010
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(Note: Sramana, our guest for the Startup Success Podcast Show #52, was kind enough to let me reprint here the appendix of her new book, Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market. These are the kinds of “killer questions” you need to think on, research and define your unique answers for.) [...]

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MicroISV Digest – 01/13/2010

January 13, 2010
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Welcome to the first MicroISV Digest for 2010 with a somewhat new approach. To increase the likelihood of me consistently doing this, The MicroISV Digest will come out on Wednesdays and cover about the previous week’s worth of happenings and news in the microISV/startup world.
Community News:
Vance Lucas, InvoiceMore, has relaunched with a new, simpler, pricing structure [...]

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Take your time but hurry up!

January 12, 2010
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By Jarie Bolander,
Author of Frustration Free Technical Management
Building innovative products is an endurance event. Sprinters need not apply. Innovation takes time but cannot take so much time as to miss market windows. You need to pace yourself and your team. This is the only way to ensure consistent, quality results. The common trap of “we [...]

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Inner Productivity and Startup Businesses

January 8, 2010
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by Chris Edgar
Author, Inner Productivity: A Mindful Path to Efficiency and Enjoyment in Your Work
If you’re involved in a startup, I imagine you’ve browsed through a lot of strategies for getting through the early stages of your business.
As I’m sure you know, it’s one thing to learn a lot of “tips and tricks” for marketing, [...]

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The MicroISV Digest

December 31, 2009
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The MicroISV Digest for the week(s) ending December 31st, 2009.
(If you have an announcement of interest to your fellow microISV, indies or startups, please email me at bob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject.)
News and Announcements

Brian Swanson, Purple Ant, is looking to kick off 2010 with a robust public beta of their new application, [...]

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The MicroISV Digest

December 21, 2009
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The MicroISV Digest for the week(s) ending December 21st, 2009.
(If you have an announcement of interest to your fellow microISV, indies or startups, please email me at bob.walsh@47hats.com with the word digest in the subject.)
News and Announcements

Joseph Thibault, Partner, Coursefeeds.com, is recruiting beta testers for a January launch of his new Learning Management System. (via [...]

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Why Should You Have a Business BrainTrust?

December 17, 2009
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By Tawheed Kader,
Founder, Ask My Brain Trust
You’re a (digital) entrepreneur, a business owner, CEO, starter, or whatever the word du jour is to characterize what you do with flair. Bottom line? Your company has problems, and YOU are the one that is supposed to ultimately have the answers.
As digital entrepreneurs (I like this title the [...]

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Lean Startups and mental productivity

December 11, 2009
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Ash Maurya has a great post out this week, Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup, that I would take a break and read right now if I were you.
Now keep in mind I that I “drank the Koolaide” of lean startups at the beginning of this week as I started digging into this topic for [...]

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The MicroISV Digest

December 8, 2009
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The MicroISV Digest for the week ending December 8th, 2009.
(With 2010 just one month away, I need your feedback on what – and whether – the MicroISV Digest should be. Please comment on this post what you’d like to see it cover more, less or differently. And apologies for missing last week – by the [...]

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Breaking through your sales ceiling with Bits du Jour

December 3, 2009
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by Roger Thomasson,
Editor, Bits du Jour
So, 6 months ago you released a game-changing, niche-filling, 22nd century application.  It’s bigger, better, and faster than even the closest competition.  Then why are sales so slow?  Why are inferior titles posting astronomical download counts while yours stagnates at a few dozen per week?
There’s no question as to your [...]

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