Posts by glenn:
Lotsa eggs, lotsa baskets!
Kinda sounds like a reasonable philosophy for Micro-ISVs, eh? At least as a starting point for one.
Especially after today’s major Skype outage, previously mentioned over here.
I’m thinking that today would be a good day for uISVs to use this outage to contemplate where we are too dependent on someone else, and where we need to setup alternative arrangements. And not just for our VOIP needs either, I’m sure we all have other services which we may need to have alternative arrangements in place for too.
I’m sure Gizmo has received quite a few new signups today… 
“Deaths” in the Micro-ISV community?
As I’ve been reviewing some of my old feeds and links, I’ve been surprised by the number of ISV blogs and domains that are non-existent. Wow! Has reality really hit that many people that hard? I realise starting any business on your own is hard, but I thought the dreams and ideas of people would [...]
Setting up version control…
I was recently googling around to see what the best way to setup a version control system would be for me when I came across the following article from Neville’s My Cantina blog: Get up and running with TortoiseSVN and Subversion in 15 minutes Just what I was looking for! Thanks, Neville.
And I’m off again…
What’s the record for the most stops and starts a Micro ISV can have and still be considered a business? On the one hand, a new relationship has meant I haven’t gotten as far with the business as I could have, which has meant several months of little to know “business-thinking”. The unexpected benefit of [...]
The need to refocus
I’ve been thinking a lot about the my in-progress business recently and I’ve come to one conclusion: I’m too unfocussed. In order to try and cover myself when I quit the day-job, and guarantee a certain level of revenue, I came up with a number of alternative services I could offer to local businesses. I [...]
Interesting Virtualisation links…
I was pleased to come across a couple of posts on virtualisation recently. XEN and the art of Virtualization Free VMware Server in action Sometime in the next month I am planning on building a server to be a host for VMs, so these came at just the right time for me. I was planning [...]
PMwiki: Great for Micro-ISVs…
This is a little late, but I’m going to comment anyway A couple of weeks ago, Bob Walsh posted about plans for his mymicroisv.com site and mentioned that he was going to add a wiki to the site. I added a brief comment over there about PMwiki being easy to setup and use. I just [...]
Enough hiatus already! Time to get back to business…
November, 27th! Heck, that feels like so long ago now it’s not funny. Definitely what I would call a blogging hiatus. So much for my monthly goals, eh! I did one so far (updates on that shortly). Some of you may have thought that I have given up on this whole Micro-ISV or “escape the [...]
Kiva.org: Helping developing world ISVs…
Every so often I come across ideas that really excite me with their potential. Several days ago, I discovered Kiva.org which gets me more excited about their concept the more I look into it. I suppose, in one sense, it’s a type of social networking site but, unlike all the others out there it actually [...]
Mini-Site experiment
Ian Landsman, of Helpspot fame, has just launched his first experimental “mini-site” here: Open Source Help Desk List. I like the honesty and confidence that this shows: honesty because the site doesn’t hide the fact that this is helping to drive traffic to the HelpSpot site, and the confidence that he obviously has in his [...]