Friday, August 17th, 2007
I got a little idealistic during my talk on application acquisition at last weekend’s C4 Conference. See, last year’s event had been so memorable to me, I thought it was worth trying to focus the audience’s attention on what my aspirations were for the talk, which were roughly “to make people think about acquisition and […]
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
OK – I had a great time at C4, and I would like to write an extensive blog post about all the great, and some of the slightly awkward things that happened at the conference. I would like to, but I’m incredibly busy. Almost too busy to write anything at all. Except I want to […]
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
Tom Harrington has written a couple articles recently about running a customer mailing list for an indie software business. Running a customer mailing list Return of the mailing list The second one’s ominous title has to do with the fact that Harrington’s hosting provider, pair Networks, has a restrictive policy about using their servers to […]
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Two of my independent software developer friends (on non-Mac platforms they’d probably be called competitors) have released substantially new versions of their products today! It’s probably hard for non-developers to appreciate just how much work goes into even a modest set of improvements. Software is hard work. And the hard work isn’t all in the […]
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