Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Jon released a beta version of Codekana, a code visualization add-in for Visual Studio.
• Andrey Butov and I released Antair Video Poker for BlackBerry.
• Caleb Tan launched BlinkCart, an online shopping cart. Via BoS.
• Ken Kaczmarek released a beta version of Strata, a data browser. Via BoS.
• A new version of Direct Access was released.
• A new version of the dotProject Project Importer was released.
• Lou Carbone on the Micro ISV Show.
• Google Adsense for Games announced.
• Bob Posts news from the SIC.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Dealing with the second year funk of a startup, from Wil Schroter.
  Also, Pitch Everyone, all the time.
• 10 questions VCs and Angels will ask, from Instigator.
  Also, 3 tips to startup success.
• Shaking up "soul numbing" cube exposure, from EfCN.
  Also, when starting a business gets too hard.
• Should you work at home? from LifeLearningToday.
• Why MicroISVs should fix open source, from Bob Walsh.
• Analysing the free edition option (continues), from Zviki Cohen.
• Big Bang vs Darwinian evolution, from OnStartups.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• Carnival of Entrepreneurs.
• The Equity Equation, from Paul Graham.
• Cringely the Unemployable, from the Business of Software blog.
• Withdrawing from the echo chamber, from Christopher Hawkins.

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