A MicroISV is a lifestyle…
Ian hits the nail on the head with his post, MicroISV or Startup: “A big part of which is which is determining your goals. Do you want to run a business with an office, a secretary, 10+ employees? If so that’s a startup. It may just be you in the beginning, but if you envision [...]
“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 [...]
October Goal: Customer Portal/Payments Gateway..
To keep things moving, it’s time to set my first monthly goal, even if I have missed the first week already. By the end of the month, I want to have a functioning Customer Portal/Payments Gateway up on my site. It does not have to be “finished” in terms of complete functionality but it has [...]
Down to business…
I made a decision tonight that I hope will help really get things going around here: each month I will pick one thing to do with my business and then I will have four weeks to research, develop/purchase and then implement a solution to that goal. This came about as I was thinking again about [...]
Business Cards…
Speaking of the offline side of business… I recently got my first set of business cards printed; And I’ve already passed out quite a few of them around town. So far, I’ve had positive reactions from those who have shown an interest in what I am doing and planning. And, apart from the obvious benefits [...]
Getting an entrepreneurial mindset…
When one, such as myself, is starting a business on the side while keeping a day job it can be hard to define your professional identity. What do I do? Am I my day profession? Or, am I my fledgling, slow-moving, yet-to-make-money side-business? Which brings me to: How do you introduce yourself?, from the Escape [...]
ISV Progress… slow, but steady
For awhile there, I was posting quite regularly, but then I started getting into initial development work. Actually, I’ve done a lot less coding than I’d have liked but I now have a lot more of my ideas and direction sorted out. For instance, I now know that ThoughtFiler needs to be a desktop product [...]
On “The Right Idea”…
Gavin Bowman’s written a food-for-thought post about good ideas versus execution: If I believe everything I read: ideas are cheap; it’s all about execution. Developers are sitting on dozens of great ideas for products or services, if they only had enough time and funding. It wouldn’t matter which idea they chose, as long as the [...]
Picking my Micro-ISV niche
There’s a good post over at MyMicroISV on Picking your micro-ISV niche. He gave a useful link to a Squidoo lens about the long tail. If, like me, you’ve often heard reference to the long tail concept, but weren’t sure exactly what it is, that lens contains some good links to help clarify things. In [...]