Bipolar founders and bad signal
From Founders At Work: No, it was never clear that we were on to something huge. You never know anything. The hardest part in a startup is that you wake up one morning, and you feel great about the...
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It takes a couple of bad clients to bulletproof your contracts. If you’re new at software contracting, you may know enough to know that you need a contract, but you don’t have the experience to know...
View ArticleHostname adwords targeting
Do you know what feature would change my life? A way to exclude certain hostnames from seeing our Google Ads. Doing hypertargeted AdWords campaigns both increases your conversion rate and decreases the...
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Just a week ago, I was talking about how great it would be to be able to filter and hypertarget AdWords, and I discussed in some detail a list of changes that I hoped would improve advertising...
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As a software developer, you know the story: the “idea guy” approaches you and all he needs is someone to code his “idea”. You know, for equity. I get thousands of these per year, and you’ve gotten...
View ArticleBlogging, investments, automation, and reach
Imagine if we lived in a world with an infinite amount of time. You could get all your projects done, and you could read all the things. What would you do with all that time? One thing you would do...
View ArticleThe myth of marginal pricing
There’s a commonly-held myth in software pricing. It goes like this. The more something costs, fewer people will want to buy it. Here’s the picture: This assumption, called elasticity of demand, is...
View ArticleThe CEO “lifestyle”
Here’s the job of a CEO: to make money. To spend less than revenues. That’s it. It’s really that simple. Everything else is the how of doing that–how to cut costs, how to drive revenue, whether to...
View ArticleThree stories: Tilting at Windmills
Remember those jokes about studying by osmosis back in undergrad? Put the textbook under your pillow and learn in your sleep! That was a funny joke, at least the first time, right? Right? It turns...
View ArticlePick a budget
People are a little weird when they’re starting a software project. They will talk about what they want it to do for hours. They will write documents about it. Schedule meetings about it. They will...
View ArticleHow in-app purchase is not really destroying the games industry
So there’s an article on HN today about how in-app purchase is destroying the game industry. There are a couple of problems with this theory. The original in-app purchase See, in the in-app purchase...
View ArticleSoftware Contracting and Legal Matters
It takes a couple of bad clients to bulletproof your contracts. If you’re new at software contracting, you may know enough to know that you need a contract, but you don’t have the experience to know...
View ArticleHostname adwords targeting
Do you know what feature would change my life? A way to exclude certain hostnames from seeing our Google Ads. Doing hypertargeted AdWords campaigns both increases your conversion rate and decreases the...
View ArticleAd-words update
Just a week ago, I was talking about how great it would be to be able to filter and hypertarget AdWords, and I discussed in some detail a list of changes that I hoped would improve advertising...
View ArticleSoftware businesses are hard
As a software developer, you know the story: the “idea guy” approaches you and all he needs is someone to code his “idea”. You know, for equity. I get thousands of these per year, and you’ve gotten...
View ArticleBlogging, investments, automation, and reach
Imagine if we lived in a world with an infinite amount of time. You could get all your projects done, and you could read all the things. What would you do with all that time? One thing you would do...
View ArticleThe myth of marginal pricing
There’s a commonly-held myth in software pricing. It goes like this. The more something costs, fewer people will want to buy it. Here’s the picture: This assumption, called elasticity of demand, is...
View ArticleThe CEO “lifestyle”
Here’s the job of a CEO: to make money. To spend less than revenues. That’s it. It’s really that simple. Everything else is the how of doing that–how to cut costs, how to drive revenue, whether to...
View ArticleThree stories: Tilting at Windmills
Remember those jokes about studying by osmosis back in undergrad? Put the textbook under your pillow and learn in your sleep! That was a funny joke, at least the first time, right? Right? It turns...
View ArticlePick a budget
People are a little weird when they’re starting a software project. They will talk about what they want it to do for hours. They will write documents about it. Schedule meetings about it. They will...
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