Hacking Customers' Technology Adoption Cycles
YCombinator just released their semi-annual application for companies to incubate. One of the new questions this time around is “How will you get users?” I think that is a great question to think...
View ArticleMy Biggest Frustration With Google AdWords
Last week, I had an opportunity to talk with Andy Brice, who sells software for wedding seating plans and the like. He is an absolute genius with AdWords, and gave me some ideas on ways to improve my...
View ArticleJapanese Disaster Micro-Update
Apologies for not posting this earlier — I put notices on my business websites but forgot that a lot of folks know me solely through the blog: I live in Gifu, which is quite far from the earthquake...
View ArticleSome Perspective On The Japan Earthquake
[日本の方へ:読者が日本語版を翻訳してくださいました。ご参照してください。] I run a small software business in central Japan. Over the years, I’ve worked both in the local Japanese government (as a translator) and in Japanese industry...
View ArticleSoftware For Underserved Markets
They’ve posted my talk at Business of Software 2010. I highly recommend watching the video first, prior to reading the slides. Software For Underserved Markets View more PowerPoint from Patrick...
View ArticleAppointment Reminder at 6 Months
<Plug> The guys at AppSumo approached me and said “Hey, we’d like to do a video of you talking strategy with Andrew Warner. You guys script it, we’ll edit it and sell it.” Ordinarily I don’t...
View ArticleSpeaking At Microconf — Free Ticket Inside
I met Rob Walling of Software By Rob at the Business of Software conference last year, after a couple years of swapping emails. He and I hit it off, largely since we come from similar places on the...
View ArticleDon't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice
If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them...
View ArticleI Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone
This post will not help you sell more software. If you’re not fascinated by the inner workings of complex systems, go do something more important. If you are, grab some popcorn, because this is the...
View ArticleProductizing Twilio Applications
This post includes video, slides, and a full-text writeup. I recommend bookmarking it if you’re on an iPhone right now. I make extensive use of Twilio (a platform company that lets you do telephony...
View ArticleDesign and Implementation of CSV/Excel Upload for SaaS
I usually write more about marketing/sales than I do about actually making software products, but I have recently been working on the product side a little more intensively for Appointment Reminder....
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