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Seems appropriate that one of the first guest blog posts on our new look site will be from one of the first speakers we recorded back at Business of Software 2008. Professor Noam Wasserman is professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the author of the recently-published Amazon bestseller The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating [...]
What do Business of Software attendees want us to talk to them about this year?
I want to apologize to you if you tried to register for Business of Software 2012 over the weekend to take advantage of our first Early Bird offer. Our event registration system was down for routine maintenance on Saturday and we have received a number of emails from people who were unable to register. Given [...]
Here are the lightning talk videos from five speakers at the Business of Software conference 2011, starting with the winning talk by Justin Goeres of JKI. Lightning Talks are terrifying and very hard to pull off – each speaker was allowed 15 slides with 30 seconds for each slide. That’s 7 minutes and 30 seconds [...]
Nice to see some proof that sharing some of the BoS love brings more cool people to the physical event. Just got this note… "Just ordered my ticket, and am really looking forward to it. I attended live stream from my living room couch last year. It was great, but felt like I was missing [...]
We asked BoS2011 attendees what their key learnings were from the conference…
Susan Cain, talking at this year’s TED Conference in Long Beach on the power of introverts. Three take aways from Susan’s talk. Stop the madness for constant group work – we need to teach people how to work on their own. Go to the wilderness – we could all benefit from unplugging and getting inside [...]
This is probably one of the most important talks you will ever see if you are an entrepreneur in any discipline. It was the opening talk at last year’s Business of Software. Professor Clayton Christensen talks models of disruptive innovation, what the job of your product is and explains why there will always be room [...]
Just before we put BoS 2012 tickets on sale – in the next day and pretty much as soon as Anna makes her way down from the top of Mount Washington – we thought we would share the feedback from last year’s event. (UPDATE, she made it and got back safely. Mountaineer Andersen is third [...]
Some nice summaries of this year's Business of Software talks by Theo Spears. I have included one from each day and a link to the relevant blog post. Day 1 - Jeff Lawson Jeff from Twilio talked about SaaS pricing models. You can base pricing on how much value you add, how much the service costs [...]
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Business of Software will start soon. People have already arrived in Boston from Australia and a substantial UK contingent is heading out tomorrow. For all those thinking about how to pluck up courage to talk to people they view as heroes, my daughter has some advice. I am pleased to present an 8 year old’s [...]
Thanks to Alexis Ohanian for pointing this one out. In his words, ‘Penguins can be dicks too’. Come this year and share stuff. The funny thing about knowledge is, the more you give it away, the more you get back. Bad penguins.
A great thought from Auren Hoffman, CEO of Rapleaf in his blog, Summation. Go and read the full post, the table is just a taster. "Here are some things that will be less valued in the future and some things that will be more valued: Less-valued More-valued Why? General knowledge Judgment Search engines will be [...]
Seems that Cambridge England is sending more people to BoS this year than are coming from Boston. That might just be something to do with the fact that Red Gate and the BLN, who run the event, are Cambridge based. By the way Toronto, you rock! Thanks for makeing the effort! Fantastic to see Moscow, [...]
The folk at Cambridge University Entrepreneurs asked me to jot a few words down about what I expect from a business plan I decided to draw some pictures too. You can download my rant from http://dontmakemyeyesbleed.com (warning – it containts mild nudity and violence)
Scott Farquhar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Atlassian, an innovative, award-winning enterprise software company. Atlassian produces tools that help technical and business teams collaborate, plan projects and build software. Based in Australia, Atlassian currently has over 17,000 enterprise customers around the globe and has been named one of the “Fastest Growing Companies” by both [...]
Today's guest blog post if from Alex Osterwalder, author of the Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers. Drop us a line if you want to run a guest blog. we would love to hear from awesome people with great things to share! Alex will be speaking and running a workshop at the Business [...]
Eric Ries had a busy weekend as he launches his book, The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. If you are reading this blog and you haven’t bought it already something is very, very wrong. This is Eric’s talk at the Business of Software 2010. This video is not [...]
A guest blog from Mike Hapner, President, Izon Analytics, LLC @mikehapner. Mike attended Business of Software in 2010 and was inspired to write about what he learned. Thanks Mike. Mike Hapner. First, a big thank you to @MarkLittlewood for letting me share this story. For several years I had heard about this conference that a lot of my online [...]
A guest blog from Shawn Anderson, 4 time Business of Software attendee, all round gentleman and president and co-founder of Admin Arsenal, maker of tools for IT administrators, a.k.a. smart people. Shawn shares seven top tips for getting the most out of the Business of Software conference. Shawn is: blog.adminarsenal.com, @ShawnAnderson, shawn.anderson@adminarsenal.com Would you give a total stranger [...]
A guest blog from Patrick Foley who produced last week’s entertaining, ‘All hail the Wannapreneur!‘ video. Patrick is an ISV Architect Evangelist at Microsoft and co-founder of the Startup Success Podcast. http://patrickfoley.com/about/ We would be very interested in hearing from you if you wanted to write a post about how you can get the most from the [...]
Time Magazine just released their list of the 25 most important management books of all time. Congratulations to Business of Software 2011 speaker Professor Clayton Christensen who makes the list with, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail I noticed The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is on the list too. I [...]
When other people fail, we tend to think there’s something wrong with them. We say they’re lazy, stupid or feckless (of course, we don’t think that when *we* fail). In reality, people’s behaviour is a product of their ability and the circumstances. Take the superb developer who manages her first project and crashes it burning [...]
By only pursuing “sustaining innovations” that perpetuate what has historically helped them succeed, companies unwittingly open the door to “disruptive innovations
About a year or two after starting Red Gate (this must be about 10 years ago now), Simon and I were chatting to a couple of venture capitalists. We explained what we were doing – building software that we hoped people would buy; software that addressed the pains of SQL Server developers; software that people [...]
That’s something I once heard Bill Gates say. It struck a chord, and I thought it was kind of clever at the time. Learning C++ takes raw intelligence, a lot of commitment, and a brain that’s wired a certain way*. Marketing, well, doesn’t. I see things a little differently now. Sure, C++ is hard. But [...]
I have listened to three great talks on business models recently that have really made me think about how important they are in building a sustainable and successful business. In fact, some of the most successful, disruptive and admired businesses – Xerox, ARM, Google for example, have all been so successful because of the highly [...]
The Economist has just published its list of the top 6 business books of all time. Huge and deserved congratulations to Business of Software 2011 speaker Professor Clayton Christensen who makes the list for his seminal, 'Innovator's Dilemma'. "Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997) introduced one of the most influential modern business ideas—disruptive innovation—and proved that high [...]
One of the people we really wanted to get to speak at Business of Software is Professor Clayton Christensen, author of, 'The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail'. The Innovator's Dilemma considers how successful companies with established products can stay ahead of those with newer, better, cheaper products. Needless to say this is [...]