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All Articles (72)
- Working in Public Is Hard, July 24, 2017
- 6 Steps for Implementing Marketing Monday, February 15, 2016 (3)
- Hitting the Reset Button, January 15, 2016 (2)
- What assumptions are you making that are holding you back?, August 25, 2015 (1)
- Your corporate software career will make you a bad entrepreneur, May 22, 2015 (2)
- The Death of Moon River Consulting, December 31, 2014 (5)
- Losers Have Goals, Winners Have Systems, February 4, 2014 (8)
- The Biggest Threat to Your Bootstrapped Business, January 15, 2014 (7)
- My Preemptive Strike at Google, December 17, 2013 (6)
- Finding Your Entrepreneurial Calling, May 28, 2013 (1)
- Post MicroConf 2013 thoughts, May 22, 2013 (3)
- Free ticket to MicroConf from Microsoft, April 5, 2013
- How my product could have prevented Adobe from being hacked, January 30, 2013 (4)
- Your opinions are hurting other entrepreneurs, January 29, 2013 (6)
- Amateurs Study Tactics. Professionals Study Logistics, August 28, 2012 (2)
- Marketing Monday, July 2, 2012 (5)
- MicroConf 2012 Review, June 1, 2012 (3)
- New Laptop, January 5, 2012 (5)
- Developer Fail, December 28, 2011 (8)
- MicroConf: How it all went down, June 21, 2011 (3)
- Taking on Goliath, May 24, 2011 (1)
- Lasik Complications, March 24, 2011
- My Lasik Eye Surgery Experience, March 23, 2011 (6)
- How to Legally Steal From Your Customers, December 16, 2010 (11)
- Troubleshoot Your Problems by Going Back to Basics, November 11, 2010 (2)
- You! Get out of my Industry!, November 9, 2010 (19)
- 5 Lessons You Could Learn From (Good) Professional Consultants To Advance Your Career, April 23, 2010
- Podcast Launch: Startups for the Rest of Us, April 13, 2010 (4)
- The Single, Most Important Secret to Success, March 16, 2010 (15)
- The Builder and the Salesman, March 9, 2010 (3)
- Be Smart, Make a Ton of Money Doing Stupid Stuff, January 8, 2010 (7)
- Demote Your Product Manager, Release Better Software, January 6, 2010 (2)
- The Day the MicroISV Movement Died, November 17, 2009 (7)
- How to Make Developer Certifications That Matter, November 12, 2009 (3)
- Re-branding Products, Services and Companies, November 9, 2009 (7)
- How to Sell Enterprise Software, October 29, 2009 (6)
- A lesson in economics for the CFO of Microsoft, October 27, 2009 (1)
- Outsourcing for Entrepreneurs, October 13, 2009 (6)
- Tips on negotiating a great consulting rate, October 12, 2009 (59)
- Optimize Your Code!!!, September 29, 2009
- Mike's Laws of Business, May 7, 2009 (1)
- How to Convert Your Blog From SubText to Wordpress, February 27, 2009
- Abandoning SubText, February 22, 2009 (6)
- Hiring for a Single Founder Company, April 26, 2007 (2)
- The Widescreen Laptop Conspiracy, April 4, 2007 (132)
- The Lifestyle Entrepreneur, February 15, 2007 (3)
- Goals for 2007, February 9, 2007 (1)
- How to get any job you want, January 11, 2007 (3)
- For Love Or Money, November 8, 2006
- The Single Founder Myth, October 23, 2006 (46)
- How to avoid losing $40,000, October 11, 2006 (2)
- How to bootstrap a consulting business, October 2, 2006 (20)
- Startups for the rest of us, September 26, 2006 (21)
- Software Startup Myths Debunked, September 5, 2006 (20)
- Code Writing Code, April 23, 2006 (2)
- How to focus on quality, March 16, 2006
- Quality is not a feature, February 28, 2006
- The Gatekeeper, February 20, 2006
- Joel on Software readers up in arms - A view from the other side of the fence, February 13, 2006
- Strategy Letter #1: How to Grow Fast, February 1, 2006
- Milestones First Advertising Campaign, January 10, 2006
- Setting Goals for 2006, December 28, 2005
- Volume IV: Rewards and Incentive Programs, December 18, 2005 (1)
- Milestones version 1.0.0 Postmortem, December 11, 2005 (1)
- If my installer... had a brain..., December 4, 2005
- Post Piracy damage control, December 3, 2005 (1)
- You have exactly 3 customers, November 16, 2005
- Glamorous software doesn't equal instant success, November 6, 2005
- Volume III: To build or to buy, November 5, 2005
- Volume II: Conserving what little cash you have, September 12, 2005
- Is protecting shareware against pirates worth the expense?, September 2, 2005 (1)
- Volume I: The Paperwork, August 22, 2005
AuditShark (3)
- Finding Your Entrepreneurial Calling, May 28, 2013 (1)
- How my product could have prevented Adobe from being hacked, January 30, 2013 (4)
- Can you help me? A request of my readers, May 22, 2012 (4)
Bluetick.io (2)
- Working in Public Is Hard, July 24, 2017
- Goodbye 2016, Hello Bluetick.io, January 6, 2017 (4)
Bootstrapping a Business (14)
- Working in Public Is Hard, July 24, 2017
- 6 Steps for Implementing Marketing Monday, February 15, 2016 (3)
- The Biggest Threat to Your Bootstrapped Business, January 15, 2014 (7)
- MicroConf 2012 Review, June 1, 2012 (3)
- MicroConf: How it all went down, June 21, 2011 (3)
- Outsourcing for Entrepreneurs, October 13, 2009 (6)
- Hiring for a Single Founder Company, April 26, 2007 (2)
- The Single Founder Myth, October 23, 2006 (46)
- How to bootstrap a consulting business, October 2, 2006 (20)
- Startups for the rest of us, September 26, 2006 (21)
- Volume IV: Rewards and Incentive Programs, December 18, 2005 (1)
- Volume III: To build or to buy, November 5, 2005
- Volume II: Conserving what little cash you have, September 12, 2005
- Volume I: The Paperwork, August 22, 2005
Business (37)
- Working in Public Is Hard, July 24, 2017
- 6 Steps for Implementing Marketing Monday, February 15, 2016 (3)
- Your corporate software career will make you a bad entrepreneur, May 22, 2015 (2)
- Announcing The Single Founder Handbook, December 17, 2014
- Losers Have Goals, Winners Have Systems, February 4, 2014 (8)
- My Preemptive Strike at Google, December 17, 2013 (6)
- Finding Your Entrepreneurial Calling, May 28, 2013 (1)
- Your opinions are hurting other entrepreneurs, January 29, 2013 (6)
- Amateurs Study Tactics. Professionals Study Logistics, August 28, 2012 (2)
- Marketing Monday, July 2, 2012 (5)
- MicroConf 2012 Review, June 1, 2012 (3)
- Free Tickets to MicroConf, May 26, 2011
- Taking on Goliath, May 24, 2011 (1)
- How to Legally Steal From Your Customers, December 16, 2010 (11)
- Firefox is the new Internet Explorer, November 2, 2010 (19)
- 5 Lessons You Could Learn From (Good) Professional Consultants To Advance Your Career, April 23, 2010
- Podcast Launch: Startups for the Rest of Us, April 13, 2010 (4)
- The Single, Most Important Secret to Success, March 16, 2010 (15)
- The Builder and the Salesman, March 9, 2010 (3)
- Be Smart, Make a Ton of Money Doing Stupid Stuff, January 8, 2010 (7)
- The Day the MicroISV Movement Died, November 17, 2009 (7)
- Re-branding Products, Services and Companies, November 9, 2009 (7)
- How to Sell Enterprise Software, October 29, 2009 (6)
- A lesson in economics for the CFO of Microsoft, October 27, 2009 (1)
- The Widescreen Laptop Conspiracy, April 4, 2007 (132)
- How to get any job you want, January 11, 2007 (3)
- The Single Founder Myth, October 23, 2006 (46)
- How to avoid losing $40,000, October 11, 2006 (2)
- How to bootstrap a consulting business, October 2, 2006 (20)
- Startups for the rest of us, September 26, 2006 (21)
- Software Startup Myths Debunked, September 5, 2006 (20)
- Joel on Software readers up in arms - A view from the other side of the fence, February 13, 2006
- Strategy Letter #1: How to Grow Fast, February 1, 2006
- Post Piracy damage control, December 3, 2005 (1)
- You have exactly 3 customers, November 16, 2005
- Glamorous software doesn't equal instant success, November 6, 2005
- Is protecting shareware against pirates worth the expense?, September 2, 2005 (1)
Daily Entries (112)
- The Single Founder Handbook Public Launch, May 7, 2015 (2)
- ISV Con 2012, June 29, 2012
- Can you help me? A request of my readers, May 22, 2012 (4)
- MicroConf 2012 - Coming Soon, January 13, 2012
- Wordpress Security, January 2, 2012 (2)
- New Look for My Blog, July 5, 2011
- Free Tickets to MicroConf, May 26, 2011
- Arbitrary Choices and Forward Momentum, May 25, 2011
- Announcing MicroConf 2011, March 10, 2011 (1)
- Goals for 2011, March 2, 2011 (1)
- What you are asking for is not the same thing as what you want, November 8, 2010 (2)
- Nobody is paying you for your code, November 4, 2010 (4)
- Recording of this week's webinar, June 23, 2010
- Free Webinar on Making the Leap to a Micropreneur, June 14, 2010
- The Biggest Roadblocks to Your Success, April 27, 2010 (2)
- Stupid Reasons to Start a Software Company, April 20, 2010 (2)
- Podcast appearance on .NET Rocks, February 5, 2010
- Domain Name Change, November 11, 2009
- Blog overhaul, November 3, 2009
- Startup Success Podcast Appearance, October 29, 2009
- Last minute crash, March 23, 2009
- Repeated Characters in VMWare, March 2, 2009
- Athens, Greece - Day 4, March 19, 2008
- Athens, Greece - Days 1-2, March 17, 2008 (1)
- Returning from hiatus, March 13, 2008
- Job opening at Moon River Consulting, October 5, 2007
- Treating the symptoms, but not the problem, July 11, 2007 (2)
- Google does it again... and again, July 6, 2007
- Excel spreadsheet productivity, June 13, 2007 (1)
- Working hard or hardly working, June 3, 2007 (1)
- On the road again..., May 29, 2007
- Domain Names, May 20, 2007 (4)
- Where are we going?, May 5, 2007 (6)
- Corporate Productivity Falters, April 30, 2007
- The Netflix prize, April 24, 2007
- Upcoming podcast, March 26, 2007
- Blatant job posting for a friend, March 18, 2007
- Product Manager opening, March 14, 2007
- The Bag Kicker Strikes Back!, March 6, 2007
- New position at the airlines, March 5, 2007 (1)
- Speaking engagement, February 23, 2007
- Offshoring... sort of, February 15, 2007 (1)
- Dumbest moments in business, January 24, 2007
- A pretty good week, January 20, 2007
- When things shouldn't scale well, January 18, 2007 (4)
- Quiet lately, January 9, 2007
- Taxes suck, December 26, 2006 (2)
- More recruiter woes, December 20, 2006 (7)
- Recruiter woes, December 15, 2006 (2)
- Vive la France - Day 3,4 and 5, December 6, 2006 (1)
- Vive la France - Day 2, November 28, 2006 (7)
- Vive la France - Day 1, November 27, 2006 (4)
- Next week, November 21, 2006 (1)
- Job Listing, November 17, 2006 (2)
- Incredibly ineffective security, November 17, 2006
- Outstanding Customer Service, November 16, 2006 (1)
- VMWare and AMD X2's, November 10, 2006 (24)
- Realtime tracking systems, November 9, 2006
- Routing problems fixed, November 7, 2006
- If you can read this..., November 3, 2006
- Website warning, November 2, 2006
- Ethical Consulting, October 26, 2006 (3)
- SubText upgrade, October 25, 2006
- Job opening, October 24, 2006
- Comment spam, October 19, 2006 (3)
- Digg Front Page, October 13, 2006
- A nod from Paul Graham, October 12, 2006 (1)
- Bad Router, No Packets, October 6, 2006
- The Personal MBA, October 4, 2006 (2)
- Default Passwords aren't safe?, September 21, 2006 (2)
- Office VPN: The Network Strikes Back, September 19, 2006
- Office VPN, September 14, 2006
- New blog format, September 5, 2006
- Hiring full time, July 10, 2006 (1)
- Entering the Twilight Zone, June 12, 2006
- The path to the dark side, May 31, 2006
- Two weeks of hell, May 21, 2006
- Eric Sink offers 20% off coupon for SourceGear's Vault, May 3, 2006
- Macs no longer immune to viruses, May 1, 2006
- Six months and counting, April 30, 2006 (3)
- Another day, another grand, April 27, 2006
- New Section Coming Soon: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, April 26, 2006
- Instructions? We do'n need no steenkin instructions., March 27, 2006
- What do you mean it's due Wednesday?, March 16, 2006
- Database Mistakes, March 7, 2006
- Coming soon, Mike's Bookshelf, March 1, 2006
- Another "Milestone" completed, February 27, 2006
- Milestones v1.1.0 will be released this weekend, February 24, 2006
- Milestones v1.1.0 complete, February 21, 2006
- The calm after the storm, February 14, 2006
- The end of Milestones v1.1 is in sight!, February 7, 2006
- DNS Suckiness, January 31, 2006 (4)
- Google AdWords update #2, January 26, 2006
- Wrapping up a release isn't easy, January 23, 2006
- Google AdWords update, January 19, 2006
- Happy New Year, January 8, 2006
- New website coming soon, December 30, 2005
- UPS Update, December 26, 2005
- The Winners and the Losers, December 22, 2005
- UPS Newsflash Update, December 11, 2005
- Paychex checks in, December 8, 2005 (1)
- Attention UPS: It's winter in New England, December 7, 2005
- It needs to just work, December 6, 2005
- Don't hire problem employees, November 26, 2005 (1)
- Funding your startup, November 15, 2005
- Y Combinator Startup School, October 15, 2005
- Moon River Software's first full time employee, October 14, 2005
- Day 48, September 26, 2005
- Day thirty-something, September 14, 2005
- Day 19 - Update on the website, August 29, 2005
- Day 12 - The website, August 22, 2005
- Day 11 - Starting a new business, August 21, 2005
Entrepreneurship (4)
- Working in Public Is Hard, July 24, 2017
- 6 Steps for Implementing Marketing Monday, February 15, 2016 (3)
- Hitting the Reset Button, January 15, 2016 (2)
- What assumptions are you making that are holding you back?, August 25, 2015 (1)
How to Build a Consulting Practice (5)
- Troubleshoot Your Problems by Going Back to Basics, November 11, 2010 (2)
- 5 Lessons You Could Learn From (Good) Professional Consultants To Advance Your Career, April 23, 2010
- How to Sell Enterprise Software, October 29, 2009 (6)
- Tips on negotiating a great consulting rate, October 12, 2009 (59)
- Mike's Laws of Business, May 7, 2009 (1)
Lifestyle Entrepreneur (5)
- MicroConf 2012 Review, June 1, 2012 (3)
- Re-branding Products, Services and Companies, November 9, 2009 (7)
- Outsourcing for Entrepreneurs, October 13, 2009 (6)
- The Lifestyle Entrepreneur, February 15, 2007 (3)
- How to bootstrap a consulting business, October 2, 2006 (20)
Marketing (2)
- 6 Steps for Implementing Marketing Monday, February 15, 2016 (3)
- Marketing Monday, July 2, 2012 (5)
MicroConf (3)
- MicroConf - Prague, July 21, 2013 (2)
- Post MicroConf 2013 thoughts, May 22, 2013 (3)
- Free ticket to MicroConf from Microsoft, April 5, 2013
Moon River Consulting (5)
- The Death of Moon River Consulting, December 31, 2014 (5)
- Troubleshoot Your Problems by Going Back to Basics, November 11, 2010 (2)
- 5 Lessons You Could Learn From (Good) Professional Consultants To Advance Your Career, April 23, 2010
- How to Sell Enterprise Software, October 29, 2009 (6)
- Tips on negotiating a great consulting rate, October 12, 2009 (59)
Moon River Software (10)
- Announcing The Single Founder Handbook, December 17, 2014
- Finding Your Entrepreneurial Calling, May 28, 2013 (1)
- Developer Fail, December 28, 2011 (8)
- The AuditShark Challenge Results? FAIL... Sort of, July 6, 2011 (4)
- Goals for 2007, February 9, 2007 (1)
- How to bootstrap a consulting business, October 2, 2006 (20)
- Joel on Software readers up in arms - A view from the other side of the fence, February 13, 2006
- Milestones First Advertising Campaign, January 10, 2006
- Setting Goals for 2006, December 28, 2005
- Milestones version 1.0.0 Postmortem, December 11, 2005 (1)
Personal (6)
- Hitting the Reset Button, January 15, 2016 (2)
- Lasik Complications, March 24, 2011
- My Lasik Eye Surgery Experience, March 23, 2011 (6)
- Last minute crash, March 23, 2009
- How to Convert Your Blog From SubText to Wordpress, February 27, 2009
- Abandoning SubText, February 22, 2009 (6)
Productivity (3)
- It's About Starting, Not Finishing, March 27, 2015 (2)
- The Death of Moon River Consulting, December 31, 2014 (5)
- Arbitrary Choices and Forward Momentum, May 25, 2011
Single Founder (7)
- Announcing The Single Founder Handbook, December 17, 2014
- My Preemptive Strike at Google, December 17, 2013 (6)
- MicroConf: How it all went down, June 21, 2011 (3)
- Y-Combinator backs a Single Founder (no, not me), September 14, 2010 (3)
- The Single, Most Important Secret to Success, March 16, 2010 (15)
- The Builder and the Salesman, March 9, 2010 (3)
- The Day the MicroISV Movement Died, November 17, 2009 (7)
Software Development (12)
- Developer Fail, December 28, 2011 (8)
- Troubleshoot Your Problems by Going Back to Basics, November 11, 2010 (2)
- You! Get out of my Industry!, November 9, 2010 (19)
- Demote Your Product Manager, Release Better Software, January 6, 2010 (2)
- How to Make Developer Certifications That Matter, November 12, 2009 (3)
- Optimize Your Code!!!, September 29, 2009
- For Love Or Money, November 8, 2006
- Code Writing Code, April 23, 2006 (2)
- How to focus on quality, March 16, 2006
- Quality is not a feature, February 28, 2006
- The Gatekeeper, February 20, 2006
- If my installer... had a brain..., December 4, 2005
Tech Tidbits (5)
- New Laptop, January 5, 2012 (5)
- Repeated Characters in VMWare, March 2, 2009
- How to Convert Your Blog From SubText to Wordpress, February 27, 2009
- Excel spreadsheet productivity, June 13, 2007 (1)
- VMWare and AMD X2's, November 10, 2006 (24)
The Good, the Bad, & The Ugly (3)
- Comcast, May 8, 2006
- 99 restaurants and Applebees, May 2, 2006 (3)
- aye - mo, April 27, 2006
Uncategorized (3)
- Free Landing Page Reviews, February 11, 2015
- Your opinions are hurting other entrepreneurs, January 29, 2013 (6)
- Lasik Results, March 25, 2011 (6)
There are 197 posts in 21 categories with 653 comments.
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