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Is your Startup Tapworthy?

June 26, 2010
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After six Evernote notes, three great ideas for my startup, two epiphanies and grabbing five great apps I’d never heard of, I’m through with the first two chapters (of 11!) of the brand new book Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps by Josh Clark. I don’t know which is going to give out first – my brain [...]

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Fearful people can’t make things.

December 18, 2008

Tina Su is an online friend of mine that comes up with these incredibly thoughtful posts on creativity, clarity and happiness. Happiness? What’s that got to do with startups, coding, microISVs and the like? Everything.
Fearful people can’t make things.
Lately, there’s been plenty of fear to go around. I watch the news, talk to my friends, [...]

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I’m disappointed.

December 18, 2008

Julien Codorniou, the program manager for Microsoft BizSpark, emailed me this morning to tell me I’m the second most active BizSpark Network Partner worldwide!
Second.
I hate being second. Especially when that means almost besting all those stuffy VC’s with their staffs, VLE (Very Large Egos) and their hundreds of millions of dollars. So let me [...]

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What President Obama means for microISVs

November 5, 2008

This morning on the Business of Software forum someone started a thread “Obama won! Is his tax plan going to effect ISV? (sic)
A lot of things were and will be said there, but one post by Steve McLeod who lives in Cologne, Germany caught my eye. He said about the U.S. election, in effect, “So [...]

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Joe the Programmer

October 16, 2008

Joe the Plumber was the main takeaway from last night’s Presidential Debate, and while I don’t get into politics here, I thought maybe it’s time we talk about Joe.
You see Joe Wurzelbacher has been slaving away for years putting in 10-12 hour days to make someone else money. Now he’s about to start his own [...]

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Fear and Opportunity

September 19, 2008

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 America’s [...]

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Elephants and ants, big companies and startups.

September 14, 2008

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 New York [...]

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Contest over. You won.

August 29, 2008

A while back I mentioned the Presdo API contest I was going to be one of 4 judges for: well, after much deliberation (and a bit to eat and drink) Ben, Allen and I cast our votes, Mike chimed in from afar and Dean Mao walked away with a new iPhone, as did the two [...]

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Do it in front of other people.

August 5, 2008

I and over 800 people sat down this afternoon and had a cozy 1-to-1 with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals.com, courtesy of online video streaming company ustream.com.
Now if you’re not a 37signals.com fan as I am, or Basecamp/Highrise/Campfire/Backpack user, you could care less, right? Wrong. Developers, startups and microISVs, I have seen [...]

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Dealing with information overload: Lincoln and RSS.

July 21, 2008

Michael Slater – cofounder of BuildingWebApps.com – asked one of those questions I find keep popping up in my life: How to do you cope with the information flood? The techniques I used back last century fail utterly in a world of blogs, social networks, intermittent twitter service, iPhones and RSS. I’ve had to find [...]

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Games microISVs play with themselves

June 3, 2008

Maybe it’s this raging cold I brought home, or maybe it’s synchronicity at work, but a good online friend of mine, Tina Su, just posted another must read for microISVs: The Panacea for Putting Things Off.
Can you recall a time when you wanted to do something important, yet you’ve managed to make enough excuses to [...]

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Get up, get out, get moving

June 2, 2008

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. [...]

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The future doesn’t just happen.

May 29, 2008

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 [...]

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To reach customers, layer your message.

May 21, 2008

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 to [...]

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