Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Trianeda launched iQuickDoc, a lightweight document management system. Via BoS.
• A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire was released.
• Fogcreek released Copilot 2.
• Douk Veenstra's blogging his OkInvoice Micro ISV. Via BoS.
• Alfie John's new startup blog.
• Pam Slim's coaching program at StartupNation.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• PODCAST: How to start your own MicroISV.
• Is a business plan necessary, from Guy Kawasaki.
• Patrick's a Slave to Google.
• The difference between B2B and B2C, from Jim Logan.
• An open annual assessment from KC.
• Levels of Effort, from Seth Godin.
• How to compete with your customers, from OnStartups.
• 5 lessons from Kohl's, from Ben Yoskovitz.
• 2007, from A Shareware Life.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• A spoon or a jackhammer? from 37signals.
• What's your Value per Hour, from Bob Walsh.
• 14 ways to motivate yourself, from GameProducer.
• The Big Picture, Joel Spolsky on Dreaming in Code.

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Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Siddharta Govindaraj is looking for beta testers for Catalyst, a project management system for small dispersed teams.
• The final beta release of Smart PropertyGrid.Net, from Visual Hint on BoS.
• The first official release of ModelRight, data modelling for Oracle. Via BoS.
• A new version of Json.NET from James Newton-King.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Boundaries, from Eric Sink.
• Doing a Beta right, from Bob Walsh. Also, How to get Bloggers to write about your product.
• New ISV resources available from ISV Prime.
• Using MuVar to decide whether to show your price, from Jim Logan.
• An Interview with Dharmesh Shah, from Startup Stories.
• Blogging and Micro ISV's, from Bob Walsh's new Clear Blogging blog.
• Why I use Paypal, from Patrick McKenzie.
• Sales figures, from Andrey Butov (and on the BoS forum).

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• Random notes on Blogging and Random Notes on being an Entrepreneur, from Gapingvoid.
• Two recommended blogs, from Ian Landsman.
• The Carnival of Game Production #1, from GameProducer.

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Micro ISV Digest

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

News and Announcements

• Significant Other announced Eyecalc, an eye diagram simulator.
• John Rush launched ActiveSharp, a .net validation framework.
• Vignesh announced iQuickDoc, a document management system.
• Ten years for Eric Sink.
• Ian points us to Alex Williams' new startup blog. Good stuff.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• Patrick enjoys e-Junkies new shopping cart.
• Get out and walk around, from Scott Meade.
• Pithy insights on Startup Marketing, from OnStartups. Also, How useless is your web traffic?
• The stickiness aptitude test, on How to Change the World.
• How to be remarkable, from Seth Godin.
• Software Time Trials, from Andrey Butov.
• 8 Outdated notions of entrepreneurship, from Penelope Trunk, via EfCN.
• My first (almost) big mistake, from Ian Landsman.
• Bubble, bubble, bubble, from Techcrunch. Carmen suggests the Crunch forums for feedback.
• What comes after usability? From Creating Passionate Users.
• Handy tools and resources.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• Omea, newly open-sourced organisation software, via BoS.
• The Social Customer Manifesto, on Gapingvoid.
• Only nerds ask "Is the Web 2.0 bubble collapsing?", from Andrew Chen.
• WPF in 3 easy links, on MyMicroISV.
• Neville Franks does Virtualization.

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Micro ISV Digest

A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts. Planet Micro ISV's magic RSS gnomes were off sick for a big part of this week, so if I missed your important announcement, feel free to put it in the comments or email me.

News and Announcements

• Andrey Butov released his BlackBerry Spam Filter.
• John released a BlackBerry email tool, MagicMail. Via BoS.
• Orick of Toronto unleashed his secret message site Sayitt.com on the BoS forum.
• GameProducer announced the Carnival of Game Production.
• Bob Walsh announced the release date for his next book, and an upcoming new Micro ISV resource wiki.

Relevant Blog Posts and Articles

• A simple way to plan your revenue targets, from EfCN. Also, 12 ways to feel more free in 2007.
• Back to Basics: User Generated Revenue, from OnStartups.
• The Dumbness of Crowds, from Creating Passionate Users.
• It takes a big person to admit when they made a mistake, from FollowSteph.
• A sample demand curve for a Java component, from Richard Rodger.
• 10 ways to use LinkedIn, from Guy Kawasaki.
• Localizing and Translating software, from Ryan Smyth on MyMicroISV.
• The long tale, via Noah Brier.

Further (mostly relevant) Reading

• How to create games incredibly fast, from GameProducer.
• The AIDA formula for blogging, from CopyBlogger.
• 10 beginner behaviors for GTD.
• The lawyers client manifesto and the end-user manifesto, from gapingvoid.
• The youngest grocer in America, via 37signals.
• 5 useful lessons, on BoS, from Nick Hebb.

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