A Precarious Balance

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• A personal weakness - part 1

  If you've read through some of my posts, you probaby get the idea that I'd like to be on my own, that I'd like to make a software product useful enough that some group of people (hopefully a large group) would buy it. And if you didn't get that idea, Read More... Posted Friday, October 14, 2005 8:15 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: Customers, Products

• Custom Products

  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... Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 8:30 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: ISV, Products

• Top Sellers

  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... Posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: ISV, Customers, Products

• Too Many Products, Too Little Time

  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... Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 9:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 1 Comments Filed under: ISV, Products