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Happyland is a bad place

September 14, 2007

Michael Lehman and I’s interview with Judi Tyabji Wilson, CEO of Tugboat Enterprises, is now up at Channel 9 and if you are an incurable optimist and your PC works flawlessly and never, ever crashes, don’t bother watching it.
For the rest of billion or so people whose lives include those happy little moments of pure [...]

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Nick Hodges of CodeGear talks about CodeGear, Borland and Delphi

August 30, 2007

The MicroISV Show goes where blue badgers fear to tread – to the home of CodeGear, the Borland spinoff of all things Delphi, to get get the lowdown on what today’s other windows development environment has to offer microISVs. Nick Hodges, codegear product manager for Delphi makes the case and spills the beans.
While the audio [...]

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Experience matters – especially to your customers.

July 20, 2007

It’s not just what your customers think that matters, it’s how they feel, and how they feel about themselves when they do business with you. Engineering your customers’ experience with your product, at your web site, when they need tech support and every time they touch your microISV is a powerful set of techniques for [...]

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Been there, done that and you should listen.

July 6, 2007

Anyone who’s successfully run a microISV for 12 years is someone you need to listen to. So interviewing Clay Nichols of Bungalow Software for this week’s Microsoft Channel 9 The MicroISV Show was quite a pleasure. Clay has a hammock-full of advice about balancing development, marketing and working with your significant other to make your [...]

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This week’s show: Mike Rohde, design guru

June 22, 2007

This week’s The MicroISV Show podcast is up: Mike Rohde, microISV-friendly graphic designer, was kind enough to come on the show and talk about what microISVs need to understand about his world.
Disclosure: I’ve hired Mike to work on a project for me, kind of like what Ian Landsman and Mike did a while back: believe [...]

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How not to run your microISV: Crazybusy

June 5, 2007

If there’s one occupational disease microISVs fall prey to it’s that frenzic state of mental overload known as being crazybusy. Between 150 emails, skype, a cell phone, a landline, new customers asking old questions, IM, twitter, more email, trying to get a bug patch done, and maybe, just maybe actually doing some development, most (me [...]

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You should escape from cubicle nation

May 21, 2007

Michael just posted one of the best interviews we’ve done: Pamela Slim, famous for her Escape from Cubicle Nation blog, podcast and now radio show.

Pamela fired her corporate life several years back and now helps others break the golden handcuffs both professionally and on the web. Pam has an incredible knack for bringing to the [...]

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Going to Mix07 – how about you?

April 26, 2007

I’ve never been one for trade show or tech conferences, but I’m trying the opposite thing this year, starting with Mix07. I’m going for a host a reasons – rave reviews from people I know of Mix06, looking for micro-ISVs and others to interview for The MicroISV Show, a keen desire to see what people [...]

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Nick Bradbury been there and done that

April 25, 2007

This week’s The MicroISV Show podcast on Channel 9 features one of my personal heroes: Nick Bradbury. Nick’s the guy behind HomeSite, TopStyle and FeedDemon. Nick probably doesn’t remember, but he was kind to answer my email to him years ago regarding a good source of for icons – just another aspiring micro-ISV he’s helped [...]

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Phil’s been there, done that micro-ISV thing in two countries

March 15, 2007

FYI, Podcast #15 of The MicroISV show is now up. It’s an interview with Phil Wright, the guy behind DotNetMagic and ComponentFactory.
 
Tags: Phil+Wright, DotNetMagic, ComponentFactory

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Looking for volunteers/victims and interviewees

March 7, 2007

…Well, not so much victims as micro-ISVs with thick skins, a burning desire to improve their web site and a willingness to do things in public.
I’ve got a couple of micro-ISV’s lined up for the Site Review Monday, but if you’d like to have me review your site at http://mymicroisv.com, please email me at bobw@safarisoftware.com. [...]

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When Microsoft goes shopping for micro-ISVs…

March 5, 2007

This is my shameless co-host plug for The MicroISV Show:
We interviewed Microsoft’s Don Dodge for this week’s The MicroISV Show podcast.
Don is one of the people who finds startups for MS to acquire and/or work with.
Don goes into a lot of very specific detail about the process, what micro-ISV’s can do to get VC and [...]

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Site Review Monday – UpdatePatrol

February 26, 2007

This week’s volunteer for my Site Review Monday post is Brian Rasmusson, founder of BitBerry Software, a micro-ISV based in Holbaek, Denmark.
UpdatePatrol is a Windows desktop application for monitoring changes in web sites and blogs. BitBerry’s site, http://updatepatrol.com, is an excellent site overall – lots of good things to learn here.
The USP:
(The Unique Selling [...]

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The MicroISV Show – Google AdWords

February 23, 2007

This week’s The MicroISV Show is everything you wanted to know about Google AdWords for micro-ISVs from some who really knows – Dave Collins. For nearly a decade, Dave’s 3 person U.K. company www.SharewarePromotions.com has been helping shareware authors and micro-ISVS successfully market. In this podcast, Dave shares his expertise on what to do and [...]

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Do you want happy or sullen users?

February 17, 2007

Michael Lehman and I interviewed David Shadle, Microsoft User Experience Evangelist for this week’s The MicroISV Show. David’s job is to get more ISV’s (including micro-ISVs) to think about building apps users actually enjoy using.
This is not some feel nice bell and whistle – especially for micro-ISVs. User experience is not just an attractive, shiny [...]

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