Nobody is paying you for your code

November 4, 2010

I think that one of the more interesting facets of a software company is that what people are buying and what they are paying for aren’t remotely the same thing. If you run a software company, or at least work for one, then you’re peripherally aware of the fact that your company writes code, builds [...]

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Firefox is the new Internet Explorer

November 2, 2010

Here’s a date you probably won’t remember. November 9th, 2004. That’s the day that the Mozilla Foundation unleashed Firefox 1.0 to the world. Sure, there were more than two years of releases before that which were affectionally labeled as “beta releases”. Don’t blame Mozilla for that. Google’s the one that made it fashionable to do [...]

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Y-Combinator backs a Single Founder (no, not me)

September 14, 2010

On a recent podcast, Rob Walling and I chatted about a new online magazine called Hacker Monthly. Today I dropped over and checked it out and found an article that really rang true with what I’ve been doing over the past several years. It was called “The Royal We: Single Founder Startups” by Ray Grieselhuber. [...]

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Recording of this week’s webinar

June 23, 2010

If you missed the webinar on Monday, you can listen to it here: http://bit.ly/c7FlM8 A special thanks to Matthew of EditMe for having me on to talk about starting a business. Cheers!

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Free Webinar on Making the Leap to a Micropreneur

June 14, 2010

If you’re not familiar with the term “Micropreneur”, you’ll likely hear a bit more about it in the coming months. To give you a really short description, a Micropreneur is basically the owner/founder of a Micro-ISV. Ah yes, another acronym to explain. A Micro-ISV is a small, independent software vendor. That’s basically a term that [...]

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The Biggest Roadblocks to Your Success

April 27, 2010

It’s a few hours late, but here’s my final notice on this blog for a new episode of the “Startups for the Rest of Us” podcast. Episode 3: The Biggest Roadblocks to Your Success Unless we do something really cool there, you’re not going to hear about it again. As a side note, I fully [...]

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5 Lessons You Could Learn From (Good) Professional Consultants To Advance Your Career

April 23, 2010

A colleague referred to me as Mariano Rivera this week. If you’re not a baseball buff, Mariano Rivera is the closer for the New York Yankees. Like most closers in baseball, Rivera usually comes into the game when it’s almost over and the Yankees are winning by only a couple of runs. It’s his job [...]

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Stupid Reasons to Start a Software Company

April 20, 2010

The second episode of our free podcast named “Startups for the Rest of Us” that Rob Walling and I created is live at our podcast website. This episode is titled “Stupid Reasons to Start a Software Company”. You can either listen to it in your browser or download the MP3 and a full written transcript [...]

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Podcast Launch: Startups for the Rest of Us

April 13, 2010

In 2006, I had been self-employed for less than a year. I knew a decent amount about business and a whole lot about technology, but wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do. I had been involved in a startup called “Pedestal Software” for the previous few years and it was sold to Altiris to [...]

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The Single, Most Important Secret to Success

March 16, 2010

About 6 weeks ago, I had dinner at a pizza place near Boston with some fellow developers. We were generally discussing various aspects of business, things to do, things not to do, etc. One of the guys asked me a question that I feel like I get quite frequently: “What’s the most important thing you [...]

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