Single Founder
Announcing The Single Founder Handbook
This past August, I took a trip to my cottage in Edwards, NY. The trip was primarily intended for me to be on-site to show the place off to potential buyers and was successful in that regard. However, I also took it as an excuse to do a 3 day personal retreat. As part of…
Read MoreMy Preemptive Strike at Google
I can’t begin to count the number of times I’ve had to consider whether or not I wanted to host my own solution or use a cloud provider of some kind. When I was first getting started as an entrepreneur, there simply weren’t choices to be had. You hosted your own solution, or you didn’t…
Read MoreMicroConf: How it all went down
About three months ago, Rob Walling and I announced that MicroConf was coming to the Riviera in Las Vegas. Two weeks ago, it happened. And more than 100 people descended on the hotel for a conference we put together from beginning to end in a mere three months. If I saw you there, then I…
Read MoreY-Combinator backs a Single Founder (no, not me)
On a recent podcast, Rob Walling and I chatted about a new online magazine called Hacker Monthly. Today I dropped over and checked it out and found an article that really rang true with what I’ve been doing over the past several years. It was called “The Royal We: Single Founder Startups” by Ray Grieselhuber.…
Read MoreThe Single, Most Important Secret to Success
About 6 weeks ago, I had dinner at a pizza place near Boston with some fellow developers. We were generally discussing various aspects of business, things to do, things not to do, etc. One of the guys asked me a question that I feel like I get quite frequently: “What’s the most important thing you…
Read MoreThe Builder and the Salesman
I published a popular article named “The Single Founder Myth” a few years back. In this article, I contended that contrary to popular opinion, it was not impossible to go it alone with a software startup and be successful. To clarify up front, what I mean by “going it alone” is that you build up…
Read MoreThe Day the MicroISV Movement Died
In September of 2004, Eric Sink, Founder and CEO of SourceGear coined the word “MicroISV”. He set out on a quest to explore the world of MicroISV’s and learn for himself what they were all about. In the process, he built a fan-base and following of MicroISV’s who wanted to follow in his footsteps. Just 16 months later, with a keyboard and a blog entry, he effectively killed the entire MicroISV movement.
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