Category Archives: microISV

47 hats

47hats Bob Walsh (microISV owner, Business of Software forum regular/moderator, blogger and author[1]) has just launched his new microISV consultancy 47 hats. I don’t know how he finds time to sleep!

I have thought about branching out into providing consulting to other software companies myself (micro and macro). It is part of the motivation for starting this blog. But I am really too busy with PerfectTablePlan at present. Anyway I am sure there is plenty of work to go round and I wish Bob the best of luck with his new venture.

[1] Bob’s affiliate link.

I will be talking on usability at ESWC 2007

eswc The schedule for the European SoftWare Conference 2007 has just been announced. This is a 2 day conference in Köln, Germany in November aimed at microISVs, shareware authors and other small software companies.

I really enjoyed ESWC 2006 and I am looking forward to it. It will be nice to get away from the computer[1], talk to people I met last year and meet some new people. I will be giving a talk titled “Increasing conversions through better usability”.

[1]Except that I will be taking my laptop to check support emails, of course.

Interview

I was flattered to be asked to do an interview by Adriana Iordan of Avangate (pictured left). How could I refuse given that the previous 3 interviewees were Bob Walsh (author of “Micro-ISV: From Vision To Reality” [1]), David Boventer (founder of ESWC) and Eric Sink (top software blogger and almost legendary founder of SourceGear)? Adriana, if you could interview Joel Spolsky, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs next, that would be perfect. ;0)

The interview is here.

[1] This is Bob’s affiliate link. If you follow the link amazon.com are currently offering Bob’s book together with “Eric Sink on the Business of Software” for $36.28. They are both well worth a read for any budding software entrepreneur. The price is nearly double (pounds for dollars) if you buy them from amazon.co.uk. How can Amazon justify that sort of price difference?