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Useful or not?

August 30, 2010

As you may have noticed, I’ve been fairly quiet here of late. That’s changing, but as part of that change I need to know if continuing the weekly MicroISV Digest is of value to you. If it is, let me know, and please vote!

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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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Snow in Sonoma?

December 7, 2009
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Woke up to a light sprinkling of snow here in Sonoma, CA – something that happens where I live about every three years. Took a quick pic as an MMS to text to various friends, got busy coding and testing a big batch of enhancements to my startup app. Keep coming back to coding after [...]

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Of interest for .NET microISVs/Startups…

August 6, 2009

If you are interested in getting some quality time and support for your startup or microISV .NET app, check out the upcoming Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week for Windows 7, to be held at Microsoft Technology Center, Reston, VA Monday 8/24/2009 to Friday 8/28/2009. This event is ½ day of training, 3 ½ days of active [...]

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Allow me to introduce myself…

July 30, 2009
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It’s been a while since I’ve explained who I (Bob Walsh) am and what I do regarding microISVs and startups and it seems this blog has picked up a lot more readers recently, so here goes. Please feel free to skip this post!
1. You’re reading my blog 47hats where you’ll find hundreds of posts on [...]

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A very personal post…

April 22, 2009

(Please skip if you don’t know me…)

Dear friends,
It is with great sadness we need to let you know that yesterday we had to put Sake to sleep. After 22 years and ten months, he’d come to his time. He will always be in our hearts; please say a short prayer for him today.
-Bob, Tina, Sammy [...]

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A nasty, nasty bug!

January 9, 2009

Just spent a couple of hours tracking down why readers of this blog using Internet Explorer were suddenly unable to access this site – and the culprit turned out to be my latest Firefox extension! Here’s the gory details for anyone with a WordPress blog and your readers start getting “Internet Explorer Cannot Open the [...]

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He’s at it again.

January 2, 2009

I’ve started writing a new book for Apress: working title, The Startup Success Guide (SSG).
This is not Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality (MIVR) 2.0. MIVR did and does a good job of covering what’s involved in moving from being somebody else’s developer to creating, marketing and making money as a self-funded microISV selling a desktop [...]

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Something new at 47hats.com

December 29, 2008

Starting today, I’ve added UserVoice.com goodness to 47hats.com. As we roll into 2009, I want to write more of the posts that you want to see, and UserVoice lets you to tell me what posts, interviews, guest posts, topics you would most like to see here.
Click the Feedback tab, click the posts you want me [...]

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The Twitter Survival Guide released.

December 2, 2008

My co-author Kristen Nicole and I have just released The Twitter Survival Guide.
Twitter is the fastest way to build connections online, and The Twitter Survival Guide is the fastest way to master making the most of your Twitter experience. Whether you are building an online reputation for yourself, your startup, your company or you just [...]

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Moving Day.

November 2, 2008

I’m in the process of moving 47hats to a new web host: I can’t afford to wait for Alentus to resolve its problems. Initially I’d plan to move to wordpress.com but there were 3 catches:

The feed: While I can list any old feed I want as a link in the sidebar at wordpress.com, there’s no [...]

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Which works better for a startup: a forum or a social network?

October 30, 2008

ISV asked a really good question this morning over at the Business of Software forum:
Would it be a good idea to consider using something like Ning instead of a forum? Anyone considered this?
I think a lot depends on what you’re going to build a social network around, and how much time are you prepared to [...]

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Bits and Pieces

August 15, 2008

Busy week, but here’s a few things that I squirreled away you might like to finish your Friday with:
Tim Haughton is having entirely too much fun with SSH, posting 3 Things You Didn’t Know About SSH – Part 1. This post is how you can use SSH to tunnel your web traffic to your server; [...]

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Bits and Pieces.

August 7, 2008

Here’s a few things on the web that caught my attention recently you may find interesting:
Keith Alperin of Helium Foot Software posted his second podcast episode in his series, Mac Software Business, Year One. He and Scotty Scott, Kevin Hoctor and Gus Mueller kick around Mac specific issues and general topics like licensing, PayPal as [...]

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Clients making news.

July 21, 2008

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 [...]

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