Posts Tagged ‘microISV’
Show #51 Scientist/co-founder Mark Juras
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Bob and Pat talk with Mark Juras, co-founder of Great Migrations about his firm’s deep software translation offering. If your company still running VB6 or ASP, Great Migrations might be the silver bullet you’ve been waiting for. And, Pat launches his own microISV in addition to keeping his day job (woot!). He needs a real name for his product – Call our Listener Hotline ( 206-202-6473) to make your suggestion!
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URLs mentioned/relevant to this show:
- Great Migrations web site.
Show #42: Rob Walling and Mike Taber, the Micropreneur Academy
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This week Bob and Pat talk with Rob Walling and Mike Taber, founders of the Micropreneur Academy, an online training program for people who want to become microISVs. Rob and Mike are software entrepreneurial veterans and have designed a powerful online learning environment that delivers real value at a very reasonable price.
(Bob’s Disclaimer: While some may think my StartupToDo.com and Rob’s Micropreneur Academy are competitors who should be biting and clawing at each other for your money, neither of us see it that way. If you’re serious about building a software business you should buy both! :))
Pat talks about something startups may have missed in the hoopla over System 7, namely Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4, and Bob talks about a third new resource for startups – with a precautionary warning.
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Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast:
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, beta 2
- The Micropreneur Academy
- StartupToDo.com
- Answers.Onstartups.com
This week’s show…
… Is sponsored by StartupToDo.com. StartupToDo.com is an online productivity app and community for startup founders, microISVs and anyone who wants to create their own software company in less time, with less wasted effort and far better results. Be successful faster at StartupToDo.com!
Show #25: Andy Brice and PerfectTablePlan.
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In show #25 Bob and Pat talk with Andy Brice, founder of Oryx Digital Ltd and creator of PerfectTablePlan, about what it takes to run a successful microISV, key results of a visit to download to sale survey Andy recently did and other matters.
Bob has tips on scaling how you get things done and Pat has a recommendation if Windows Server 2008 is in your startup’s future.
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Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast:
- The Web Startup Success Guide will be out this summer.
- Getting Things Done is a lightweight, non-ceremonial extremely agile and scalable methodology that as a startup, you need to be proficient at. Resources:
- Getting Things Done entry at Wikipedia.
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity at Amazon.
- Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life at Amazon.
- GTD Connect.
- Andy’s PerfectTablePlan
- Andy’s Software Success blog, especially The truth about conversion ratios for downloadable software and The software awards scam.
- May 19th-May 21st, Microsoft is hosting a two-day platform adoption virtual lab for Windows Server 2008 R2.
- More on Windows Server 2008 R2.
Show #5: Our first Social Media President, Change Round-Up
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In our fifth show, I interview Change Round-Up CTO Andrew Badera on putting a new spin on both online customer retention and charitable giving. Change Round-Up is a startup that has found a niche between online retailers looking for ways to make their offerings more “sticky” and various charitable organizations who want to make it easier to give.
Pat and I discuss the recent U.S. Presidential Election from a tech point of view and also talk about the favorably changing developer landscape – too many platforms, not enough startups to go around.
And I have your weekly microISV tip – three things to keep firmly in mind when using PayPal, and Pat has both a microISV tip and a thoughtful book recommendation regarding the people end of this business.
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What can we do to help you? Who should we go interview? What knowledge should we go find an expert in and pick their brains? Let us know!
Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.
Show #2: JQuery, when to quit your day job and more.
Helping microISVs and startups succeed!
In our second show, Pat and I talk about JQuery that has jumped on both our radars, I interview Sanjay Bhatia, who founded Izenda a few years back and now runs a 20+ ISV.
Download Show #2 here: StartupSuccess002 Or if you prefer, Subscribe to the podcast in Apple iTunes.
Starting this episode, we’re experimenting with an actual podcast format:
1. Pat and Bob talk over a few interesting business and technology developments since the last show that impact startups and microISVs. We especially want your emails on what you’d like us to dig into.
2. I offer up a microISV tip of the week (this week is about when to ask for the sale)
3. I and/or Pat interview someone who’s good some useful experience/insight to share with the microISV/startup community.
4. Pat provides a Microsoft-related tip: this week its getting started with the Vista Sidebar.
5. One of us make a book/video/site recommendation we think you’ll find really worthwhile.
Please let us know what you think of this format – it’s definitely a work in progress!
Download Show #2 here: StartupSuccess002
Want to be on the show? Have a suggestion (besides more structure/shorter length – we’re getting better!)? Want an answer to a microISV or startup question? Let us know!
Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.Walsh@47hats.com
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.
- http://jquery.com/blog/
- Jquery UI Demos
- JQuery and Microsoft and Nokia
- My first ebook: MicroISV Sites that Sell!
- Izenda Reports
- Izenda Reports has just released version 5.6, and they are sponsoring two free web demos Wednesday October 29, 2008 3:00 PM ET and Thursday November 13, 2008 11:00 AM ET.
- http://blog.izenda.com/
- Dundas Chart for .NET Success Stories
- Dundas Adds Superior AJAX Charting to Izenda’s Web-Based Agile Reporting Solution
- getting started developing sidebar gadgets
- Windows Sidebar
Show #1: We launch SSP.
Helping microISVs and startups succeed!
In our first show, Pat and I discuss who we are, why we are doing this podcast (help startups succeed), some of the topics we hope to cover in successive podcasts and some of the larger trends that are changing the landscape for microISVs and startups.
Download Show #1 here: StartupSuccess001
Want to be on the show? Have a suggestion (besides more structure/shorter length – got that!)? Want an answer to a microISV or startup question? Let us know!
Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.Walsh@47hats.com
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.
- http://www.trialpay.com/
- NBC’s Silverlight’s 2008 Olympics Browser (also see this TechCrunch post and Microsoft’s Silverlight main page.
- Adobe AIR, this gallery of AIR apps and this post at ReadWriteWeb.
- 280Slides written in Cappuccino and Objective-J
- European Software Conference, Nov. 8-9, Berlin
- Microsoft Professional Developer Conference, Oct. 27-30, Los Angeles
- The Business of Software Network
- The Business of Software Forum
- “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations” (Clay Shirky)
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