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Over the years, I've always done my own taxes and managed my own books. It's tedious, but why pay somebody else to do it? When I incorporated back in 2005, I decided that I would find an accountant. Choosing to be an optimist about my business' Read More...
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...and don't read books by people who write blogs. Why? Because they can lead you places that are uncomfortable. They're not to blame for starting me down this unfamiliar path, but I can certainly say they sped up my pace. Where have I gone? Where Read More...
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Found via way of the microISV blog , Evan Williams writes Ten Rules for Web Startups . His guidelines resonate with me, especially the one about being narrow and being greedy <g>. -- Sean Winstead Tags: ISV , Business Read More...
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When working at prior jobs, one of the things that always nagged me was the feeling of always being behind. Not behind in "getting work done" sense. That's just a fact of life because there's always more to do than you can get done. When I first joined Read More...
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If you need to build a custom application yet desire to re-use it for other customers or sell it as a "packaged" product, there are a couple of guidelines that apply. If you have some guidelines that aren't listed here, or you think mine could use some Read More...
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About 7 or 8 years ago, while still calling St. Louis home, I worked at a small consulting company. I was in my early thirties and had been given the job as project lead for a large project. We were to write a back office system for an office supplies Read More...
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I love seeing how a business works and I enjoy putting together systems to make it do so. But that can turn into a bad thing. At both TurboPower and ComponentScience, I was involved in writing and maintaining the systems that helped the business function. Read More...
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You'd think that if your company sold 20 products, you'd be doing pretty well even if it seems like you don't have enough cowboys to wrangle them . I'm not so sure. On occasion, we talked about TurboPower being a Walmart for software. Maybe not Walmart Read More...
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There are quite a few things about being a software vendor that puzzle me. One is striking a balance between number of employed software engineers vs. number of products sold. I've been in a couple of situations where the ratio of products to programmers Read More...
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When a product dies, it dies. Sometimes you can extend its life by posting it to a service like SourceForge . But I've seen where that just delays the inevitable. In rare cases, a product can rise from the dead. But it doesn't do so on its own. Near the Read More...
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Someone had the wisdom to create an advisory board for FlashFiler, TurboPower's client/server database engine for Borland Delphi. We received a lot of feedback from the public newsgroup, most of it positive. But we wanted to give the actively pro-FlashFiler Read More...
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One of the reasons why customers were deeply involved with FlashFiler, as well as the other TurboPower products, is due to what they received when they purchased a license. Any person purchasing a license for a component library received the source code Read More...
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Have you ever realized you're dealing with a customer who knows a lot more than you? That they should be sitting in your seat, working on your product? When I first started working at TurboPower, I ran into that situation. TurboPower sold a client/server Read More...
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At one point I thought I'd never make the jump from being an employee to being self-employed. The software I had written was selling, but not enough to support my family. At the time, we had 3 children aged 5 and under. It seemed a safer bet to accept Read More...
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One of the things I've always valued most is hearing from a customer. They help reset your point of view so that it more closely matches reality. Well, this morning my reality is probably a little off. I had wanted to write about customer feedback on Read More...
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