Micro ISV Digest
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Monday, May 29, 2006 at 8:00 AM
Last week's Micro ISV news and blog posts. This time I've tried to separate the links by relevance, I hope that helps.
News and Announcements
- Colin McLennan launched EarBoost, an ear training program.
- Chris Thompson launched GoCRM via MyMicroISV (there's an offer of a free copy there for MyMicroISV readers). Postmortem on BoS.
- SpoiltChild's Weddings By Adam is now in open beta.
- Andrew Rowley is looking for testers for TimeSprite, his new time tracking program.
- Choosen Hairy Irish launched his anonymous Micro ISV blog.
- A Micro ISV story about OptionGrid, software for covered call investing.
- J's never needed anonymity to share: see his May 06 factsheet.
- Dharmesh on why the bad ideas are better than the good ones.
- Selecting a product idea on MyMicroISV.
- Startups still focus too much on geeks.
- The Boompa launch party post mortem (part 1 of 2).
- Guy Kawasaki: After the Honeymoon.
- Paul Graham on How to be Silicon Valley.
- A basic marketing plan for indie games, a Gamasutra article from GameProducer. Also, from Download Squad, part 2 of how to create your own games company.
- 6 steps to being your own boss on MSN Money.
- Microsoft's resources for Micro ISVs.
- 37 signals How to shoot a bullet through your startup, vs. business 2.0's bullet proof startups.
- Creating Passionate Users, Good Usability is like "water flowing downhill".
- Dennis Forbes: Rate of Adoption = Ease of setup.
- KC: Is your tail on fire?
- JD points out an example of guerilla marketing on BoS.
- Steve McLeod posted a guide to writing Windows shrink wrap with Java via BoS.
- How not to acheive your goals, via lifehacker.
- The top 10 lies of Guy Kawasaki.
I started this post to help me and anyone else keep up with the weekly happenings in the Micro ISV community, and to highlight potentially useful links from the week. It's now been over six months since the first one, so it seems like a good time to review the concept and make sure it stays relevant and useful.
So, I'm open to suggestions. Do you have anything to say about how this post has developed? Have I thrown the link net too wide? Should I try to trim the links list down a little? What works and what doesn't?
5 Comments:
I follow your blog through the Planet ISV website. Just to say, keep up the digest, the scope is right. I follow all the ISV action and you often have essential stuff listed that I've missed.
Gavin, keep it going as it is. I follow most stuff directly, but not everything. It's always nice to have a look at it, and it often brings up stuff I've missed. I think many people appreciate it (I do, at the very least).
I wouldn't shrink it, but I wouldn't grow it either (too many links makes me just not look at them, lest I lose the better part of one hour in reviewing them).
Thanks,
J
Keep it up, I appreciated it. I catch most of the things via other routes throughout the week, but you consistently catch another 2-3 valuable ones that I miss.
And of course, I appreciate the occassional link. ;)
Thanks for the feedback guys, with the combination of a full text feed and syndication, it's hard to know who's still following along. I don't like to ask too often, but sometimes it's nice to know you're out there ;).
And don't worry J, the last thing I want to do is make it any longer!
Thanks for keeping it up, Gavin!
Current digest format is fine with me, btw.
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