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Fail – Degrees Of Separation – Negatives And Pluses ISV Style

by Scott Kane on August 17, 2010 in 30Dayers, General ISV Issues, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Negatives happen, fails occur. They are not signals to quit in all instances, or even most. They are grist for our respective mills. You might have three months or thirty years experience in an industry but you’re going to make mistakes, you’re going to have failures. It is not the end of the world.

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What’s Not To Like About Micro ISV Fails? Release Early? You’re Doing It Wrong!

by Scott Kane on August 16, 2010 in 30Dayers, General ISV Issues, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Regular readers will remember June 2008 where a bunch of software developers elected to “build a product in 30 days”. Kind of the bungee jumping of rapid release and marketing. Those that followed will also be aware that only a handful of developers actually made it to the end in the sense that they actually released a product.

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10 Startup Commandments – Stop Swanning Around?

by Scott Kane on August 10, 2010 in 30Dayers, Starting an mISV, bootstrap isv

Nice article, well worth a read, across on Andy Swans blog on his 10 Startup Commandments that I thought some folks would get some value from by reading. While each point is very good I particularly liked the line:

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VPS Update – Need For Speed

by Scott Kane on August 8, 2010 in 30Dayers, General ISV Issues, Google, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

Now that Google has admitted site speed is a part of their ranking factor for websites – read Matt Cutts article, he suggests this is not a panic issue – and given I saw results for myself in the additional speed verses rank I figured it would hurt to play with what was reportedly a quicker service recently – Linode…

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2009 Epic Fail. Glad Its Over. Towards 2010

by Scott Kane on February 3, 2010 in 30Dayers, General ISV Issues, ISV Marketing, ISV Software Design, Starting an mISV, Steph Grenier, Uncategorized, bootstrap isv

If 2008 was a good year, and in many ways it was for me, 2009 was an Epic Fail.  I mean EPIC. It began with good intentions.  An application to finish that was six months overdue and the core of my start-up.  By years end I’d made less progress than in the last six months [...]

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