Monthly Archives: August 2008

Windows XP, Genuine Validation, IE 6 & Piracy?

By scott kane | Published: August 31, 2008

Microsoft learnt a lot from their first effort in doing this and this version is designed to be a lot harder to circumvent as it's built to be adaptable. Now you don't have to be Nostradamus to foresee the resounding howls of anguish and anger that will be heard as a result of this strategy. But for my part I have only one thing to say on it as a concept:

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Some ISV Marketing Freebies

By scott kane | Published: August 30, 2008

So as it's late and almost the weekend (family time only), I thought I'd pass on some freebie goodness from my good friend Dave Collins. Dave runs a marketing software consultancy business for ISV's and has been doing so for over a decade. He won my full respect a long time ago.

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Bursting Software Business Bubbles Part 2

By scott kane | Published: August 26, 2008

We all have our favorite software development tools. The tools of our trade. You most likely have yours, I know I have mine. During the course of these articles I'll expand on a few of them. But first up I'm going to talk, as promised, about my two favorite business development tools. Business plans and Marketing plans.

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Bursting Software Business Bubbles Part I

By scott kane | Published: August 22, 2008

You may well consider it a cliche, but there is no doubting the truth of it. Most software developers and want to be ISV's approach business development from the wrong angle. In fact they fall into it. They fall into because they start with the product and not the business.

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