Micro ISV Digest

A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts.

News and Announcements

• Andrey Butov launched Printer Friendly for Firefox.
• Mike is working on some live web page thumbnail me-ware, and looking for testers.
• Matt Breckon updated his Scrapbook.
• Microsoft launched the Project Glidepath beta.
• Digital River bought eSellerate.
• Bill Gates to leave Microsoft. Joel's first BillG review.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• How to successfully get work done in a home based business, from Matt Inglot. Also, the carnival of entrepreneurship.
• A hat-trick for Escape from Cubicle Nation: Is starting a business impossible when you're the sole income earner, The Dr Seuss business plan, and what's in a brand name?
• And for Dharmesh: Why your software isn't selling, Spending money in the right places and Getting your first customer.
• Micro ISV cooperation in action: Ian & Stephane.
• Making money from Adsense on Workhappy and Rapid Signal.
• Wil Schroter: There's big money in small markets.
• Ian Landsman: Potential Micro ISV Markets.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• Intuition from Creating Passionate Users.
• Rajesh: The Elephant and Bloggers Anonymous.
• James Newton-King: Preventing Spam with a Captcha control.
• Torsten from Agynamix: Our business model. An open post about starting his business.
• How to negotiate for fun and profit, from Steve Pavlina.
• Diet Coke v Mentos.

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