Micro ISV Digest

A round-up of the weeks Micro ISV news and articles.

News and Announcements

• Matt Breckon is blogging the development of PageTrack, a service to help manage bookmarks.
• Ben's isvManage developments inspired a product for interacting with Authorize.net.
• SpoiltChild had been dropping hints, but this week they announced their new online wedding planner.
• Some new information on 37signals' Campfire; it's a chat/collaboration tool.
• Spongecell is a new online calendar service.
• The Micro ISV show on MSDN started, and they interviewed me. I also released my first software update of the year, a new version of Oriador.
• Phillip Schumann has been very open about his experiences with Sudoku Pro on the JoS forums, and he's just started a blog: Smart Up.
• Andy Brice has organized a UK Joel on Software meet in London next weekend.
• Glenn Rice launched his blog and Micro ISV: Backup Brain.
• Doug announced (updated?) his product, ServerMonitor.

Other Articles and Blog Posts

• Phil from Seartech came back from a conference having learned one of those great geek lessons: often the features you think are the coolest are the least desired by customers.
• Wired article on The New Boom.
• Guy Kawasaki link of the week: The Art of Execution.
• 37signals: Product Roadmaps are dangerous.
• Joel Spolsky rounded off the introduction to his Great Design with What makes it Great?
• Kathy Sierra on Death by Risk Aversion.
• Also via Creating Passionate Users: Bloggers don't have sex on the first date.
• Face Time and Free Stuff from Christopher Hawkins. Great.
• Flipping the Funnel, a new free eBook from Seth Godin; maybe a bit heavy on the Squidooing, but a good read all the same.
• J's cheesy post of the year.
• Joe Indie on the effects of cutting his Adwords budget.
• Dharmesh Shah guest blogging on Bob Walsh's mymicroisv.com: Building It Well.
• 9 must reads for startups. You've probably seen some of these before, but they're all good enough to justify the repetition.
• Eric Sink's Yours Mine Ours.
• Stephan Grenier posted his Do's and Don'ts of requesting links, along with a nice list of business/SEO marketing resources (plus real estate, if you're into that too).
• Tom Peters: 111 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts on Selling, via Guerilla Consulting.

From the Forum

• Ian Landsman is trying to mobilize a Micro ISV army! Some great ideas in both his initial and follow up threads. This roll call thread followed.
• J dragged up an old thread about finding start-up ideas, well worth a read, especially Bob's post.
• A discussion of the pros and cons of the Micro ISV business model.

Anything Else

The operations Haiku:-

max out revenue
within production constraints
and supply demand

Jeremy Showalter, via KC.

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