Micro ISV Digest

The best of the week's Micro ISV news and blog links.

Product News and Announcements

• This was a big week for Bob Walsh. His book Micro ISV: From Vision to Reality was released, and then he launched a new Micro ISV resource site: MyMicroISV.com. You can read Joel Spolsky's introduction to the book here, and you can find the book in ebook form here. MicroISV.com interviewed Bob too.
• Rapid Signal started beta testing of Magna CRM. Sign up here.
• New MicroISV, new blog: Overview will develop re-usable components for PHP developers.
• Andrea Nagar is looking for Beta testers for a new product. Direct Access is an application launcher.
• Ian announced that ValiantHost would soon become the first hosted Helpspot providers.

Relevant Links and Blog Posts

• In the last New Year posting of the season, J from NGEdit outlines his plans and hopes for 2006.
• Ian Landsman posted about staying focused on your mission and avoiding distractions in The Discipline. He was also interviewed by Redscowl Bluesingky.
• An interesting post on A Shareware Life about price points and trial conversions. And another on the failure of a startup in Why Pyrogon Failed.
• Techcrunch have some beta planning tips: Don't blow your beta.
• Phil from Seartech on Customer Service.
• Bob Walsh posted an introduction to The Long Tail, with some great links.
• SpoiltChild talks business plans and jumping through hoops for funding.
• Guy Kawasaki's Hindsights. Great stuff, but he made a few great posts this week, if you haven't already I recommend you read them all.
• The Overture inventory system is a great tool for Search Engine Optimization.

Anything else?

• RandsInRepose's welcome to management: What to do when you're screwed.
• The world's best quotes in 1-10 words.
• Dave Child of IloveJackDaniels.com posted another of his beautiful cheat sheets, this time for Ruby on Rails.
• Wesner Moise is giving away a cool little tool, it was created as a scrabble word finder, but I'm sure someone will be able to think up some other uses.

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