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Posted by Gavin Bowman on Monday, July 30, 2007 at 8:00 AM
A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts. News and AnnouncementsRelevant Blog Posts and Articles- Business For Geeks: Dollars and Sense, from KC.
- Think twice about taking a smaller slice of a bigger pie, from Wil Schroter.
Also, Why you probably won't survive as an independent consultant. - Sort By Money, from Bob Walsh.
- Be the lesser of two necessary evils, from OnStartups.
- Give em something to talk about, from Fast Company.
- Implementing a Serial number verification system, from Brandon Staggs (47hats.com).
- 10 steps to improving your email customer service, from Ian Landsman.
- 9 women can't have a baby in 1 month, from Follow Steph.
- Dipping your toes in will get you nowhere: Dive in, from EfCN.
Also, 5 reasons to consider downsizing your vision of an ideal life. - Cost effective software registration, from Andy Brice.
Further (mostly relevant) ReadingTags: microisv digest entrepreneurship startups shareware
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 10:08 AM
Yesterday we launched another new BlackBerry game, Antair Video Slots. It has a modern multiple pay line 5 reel video slot game with an Asteroid Jane space theme, a more traditionally themed 3 reel one arm bandit style slot machine, and a pirate themed 3 reel slots game with hold reels and multiple paylines.  We built the game around the same core as Antair Video Poker, which launched last week. With both games we tried to recreate the fun and accessibility of casino games, and capture the one-more-go impulse.
As Andrey noted in his blog post about the new game last night, we're switching over to a desktop PC/Mac game for our next product. We've been bouncing ideas back and forth and spurring each other on over the last 6 months or so of this game development venture, so by now we've built up a solid idea backlog. I've been building a lot of Flash prototypes and we've tested several game ideas with various game engines, IDEs, and frameworks, but the time came to pick one and get on with it. We're done with our technology evaluations, we have a solid preliminary design for the game, and we have an artist on board, so the next few months should be very exciting. Tags: blackberry slot machines video poker games
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at 8:00 AM
A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts. News and AnnouncementsRelevant 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) ReadingTags: microisv digest entrepreneurship startups shareware
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Friday, July 20, 2007 at 8:06 PM
Antair Video Poker for BlackBerry is now available to download and buy. Antair Video PokerThis is the second release from my game development venture with Andrey Butov, and it's another one I'm very happy with. It supports 6 different Video Poker games, visually it turned out great, and it has nice record keeping and high score tracking. I think it really captures the feeling of Video Poker, and it's a lot of fun to play.  If you have a BlackBerry, I hope you'll give it a try, you can download the demo directly to your phone from the main game page. The joint venture with Andrey continues to be a very good thing. It's amazing how much our skills and interests complement each other. Whenever I find something I don't want to do, there's always a good chance Andrey will be looking forward to it, and vice-versa. It feels great to wake up in the morning and find that someone checked off all the tasks you were dreading, but left all the fun stuff. We already have another BlackBerry game in development, and our PC/Mac projects are coming along nicely, so stay tuned. Tags: blackberry games video poker
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Monday, July 16, 2007 at 8:00 AM
A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts. News and AnnouncementsRelevant Blog Posts and ArticlesFurther (mostly relevant) ReadingTags: microisv digest entrepreneurship startups shareware
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Monday, July 09, 2007 at 8:02 AM
A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts. News and AnnouncementsRelevant Blog Posts and Articles- Friends and Family, from Ian Landsman.
- Payment Processors vs uISVs, from Patrick McKenzie.
- Selling your ISV, from Joannes Vermorel.
- The Pmarca guide to startups, part 6, from Marc Andreessen.
- The nine best story lines for marketing, from Guy Kawasaki. Also, What people talk about.
- A Development Journey, from Keith Casey.
- Whats the motivation to start a startup, from Instigator.
- Software Piracy, from Andy Brice.
Further (mostly relevant) ReadingTags: microisv digest entrepreneurship startups shareware
Posted by Gavin Bowman on Monday, July 02, 2007 at 8:00 AM
A weekly roundup of Micro ISV news, announcements and relevant blog posts. News and AnnouncementsRelevant Blog Posts and Articles- The PMarca Guide to Startups part 3, part 4, part 5, from Marc Andreessen.
- A crash course in assumptions and lessons learned, from Instigator. Also, the holy crap reaction to competition.
- No plan, no capital, no problem, from Guy Kawasaki. Also, 10 questions with Scott Berkun.
- Reinventing HotOrNot, from James Hong.
- How to have a life outside your startup, from Wil Schroter.
- Business Planning: Sales Strategy, from Startup Spark.
- Business for Geeks: Focus, from Keith Casey.
- Maximizing the Work to Wow ratio, from OnStartups.
Further (mostly relevant) ReadingTags: microisv digest entrepreneurship startups shareware
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