The Single Founder Handbook Public Launch

One of my life-long goals going back to my early days as a kid was to write a book. I remember spending entire summers going back and forth to the library checking out books. I was a voracious reader and would sit at home for days at a time, sometimes as much as 12-14 hours/day reading. Three…

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ISV Con 2012

I’m not affiliated with this conference and I know it’s late notice, but I wanted to pass it along in case there was anyone who had some free time the weekend of July 13th. If you missed MicroConf 2012 and you’d like to spend a few days networking with other ISV’s, head on over to…

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Can you help me? A request of my readers

I don’t usually ask for much. In fact, I don’t recall the last time I actually asked for anything of my readers. But I do have a favor to ask, and it’s one that could really help me out a lot. As you’re probably aware, I’ve been working on this product called AuditShark for quite…

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MicroConf 2012 – Coming Soon

You might have heard about my little podcast called Startups for the Rest of Us. You might have also heard about MicroConf, which is the conference that Rob Walling and myself put on for self-funded startups and single founder companies. If you haven’t been listening, don’t worry about it. We’re hosting this little conference again this…

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WordPress Security

I’m doing a bit of an informal survey here, but I’m curious to know whether any of my readers use WordPress. If you do and have a few minutes to take a simple 6 question survey, I’d appreciate it. It shouldn’t take you more than 3-5 minutes to finish. Take the Survey

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New Look for My Blog

Well, I decided to change things up a bit on my Blog and the new look that you see today is a result of that effort. It took me a couple of hours of tweaking last night to get it to where it’s at right now. I’m sure there’s a few odds and ends that…

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Free Tickets to MicroConf

It was just two short months ago that I announced on my blog that I’m co-hosting a conference called MicroConf. Well, we’ve gone through the pre-sales process, and gone through the regular sales process. Now it’s time for the final push. If you’re interested in going to MicroConf, you still have time to get there.…

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Arbitrary Choices and Forward Momentum

Over the past several months, I’ve been diligently working on my new product called AuditShark. If you are new or haven’t been following my blog lately, the basic concept goes something like this. There are dozens of industry regulations which dictate specific settings that should be configured on computer in specific ways. They include things…

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Announcing MicroConf 2011

Last week, I listed a number of goals for the year, and the fourth one was to speak at more conferences. Rather than waiting to be invited to speak, I thought I’d be a bit more bold and simply host my own. Well, it’s not just my conference. I’ll be hosting it with Rob Walling,…

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Goals for 2011

I’ve said in the past that setting goals for each year is a good practice. And while I try to do that every year, those goals don’t always make it to the blog in a timely fashion for some good old fashioned public accountability. Sadly I’ve skipped the public accountability aspect of my goal setting…

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