Micro ISV Digest

Micro ISV news and announcements, with some of the week's relevant blog posts and articles.

News and Announcements

• Michael Robertson launched his Ajax Excel Viewer, ajaxXLS
• Jesse Kim launched his Planhack beta. It's project management, web 2.0 style.
• Jean Moniatte launched Ugal.net, to help small businesses design and maintain websites.
• Atul's Sky Software launched EZNamespaceExtensions.Net.
• Teamprise launched their client tools for Microsoft Team Server.
• Neville released a new version of Surfulator.
• End of the line for Cade Fassett's Micro ISV, for now at least.
• Buzzshout launched.
• Google Calendar Launched.

Relevant Blog posts and Articles

• Guy Kawasaki has only been blogging for 100 days, he shared his observations. Also, the Art of Customer Service, part 1 and 2.
• Matt Inglott on the barriers to starting your own business.
• Max Pastukhov shared his experience of different pricing in why selling software for $29.95 is 300% more profitable than for $19.95.
• Dharmesh Shah on The myth of the perfect business plan.
• Mike Coyle learned everything he needed to know about startups from Dungeons and Dragons.
• Justin learned a few lessons running his.
• How to be a successful evil overlord... you know, just in case your Micro ISV really takes off.
• 37 signals shared some exerpts from their support archive. Re-inforces the idea that you can't please everyone.
• John Seiffer on Preaching to the Choir, don't forget about the customers you already have.
• I missed a couple of Micro ISV Shows, it's round two with Bob Walsh, and an interview with Kyle Alons of Kinook Software. Bob is in action again in a perlcast podcast.
• Guerrilla Consulting on Elevator Speeches.
• Joel Spolsky on the Development Abstraction Layer.
• Steve Pavlina on 10 stupid mistakes made by the newly self employed.

Anything Else?

• Overcoming Procrastination.

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