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We were very sad to hear about the terrible news yesterday of the attack on the Boston Marathon. A horrible day for Boston but we will still be back for the Business of Software Conference, (in response to the email we had asking if the conference will still be going ahead, err, yes). Like millions of [...]
I don’t think so but I am interested in other views… There has been a lot written and tweeted in the past week or so about the fallout from PyCon which has spiraled out of control. Terribly. It led to PyCon revising its code of conduct for participants and subsequently, a number of people have [...]
So many people have asked us how we select speakers, or how they propose speakers for Business of Software Conference that we thought we would offer some thoughts that are relevant, not just to Business of Software specifically, but to any approach or submission to a conference. We have seen some terrible proposals and some [...]
If you went down to the Business of Software Conference site today to register for our Super Early Bird, you would have been in for a big surprise. The site was down and we were getting no email from early this morning. The Business of Software website was not there. We didn’t notice as we [...]
I am genuinely humbled by the number of incredible, extraordinary people who agree to share their stories and life lessons at the Business of Software Conference over the years. I know how much effort, thought and energy goes into each and every one of those talks and I can’t think of one that I didn’t [...]
This is a quick set of the most popular questions flying in through the door at BoS Towers over the last couple of weeks. Are we accepting speaker proposals? Yes. BUT PLEASE PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THESE GUIDELINES. We get about 10 approaches a day and we simply don’t get the time to respond to [...]
Thank you to Under 30 CEO and to Clarity for recognising Business of Software Conference as a quality, must-attend, event for software entrepreneurs. We love running Business of Software and we know people love coming but it is always rather wonderful to be rewarded with some attention. Hugely appreciated by all of us who work [...]
Registration for BoS 2013 is open but please note we had almost 450 attendees last year but this year there will be a maximum of 400. We haven’t released any of the names of the speakers yet and our first early bird price break is just over two weeks away but already 60 places have gone. [...]
Stop what you are doing and watch this is you are involved in making software. Most people have been doing it all wrong. The inspirational Kathy Sierra kicked off the Business of Software Conference 2012 with this brilliant, brilliant, talk. Not only some of the smartest advice anyone has given about how to approach software [...]
All of the talks from the 2012 Business of Software Conference are now online. Over the course of the next year we will make the majority of them available as videos and transcripts to everyone via the blog. All attendees to the 2012 conference have been given passwords to access all of the talks now [...]
Index to the summaries of the Business of Software 2012 presentations. Kathy Sierra – Building the Minimum Badass User Jason Cohen – How data, statistics and numbers will make you do the wrong thing Joel Spolsky – The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange Dharmesh Shah – Valuation, Competition, Porter’s Five Forces and Culture Peter Bauer [...]
This is a guest post by Brian Turchin. Brian is CEO/Founder of Cape Horn Strategies, a consultancy devoted to helping software CEOs create vibrant and flourishing businesses. Brian has helped dozens of CEOs successfully proceed from one business life cycle stage to another: he helps start-up CEOs become a growing profitable business; he helps CEOs [...]
Hi folks, A quick update for you on two things that people seem to want to know about. Where are those videos of the talks from 2012? They are being processed – again – as there was a problem with the sound output. The good news is that we have been able to get a [...]
Jonathan Cogley, CEO at Thycotic Software writes… “Thanks for a great conference. We thoroughly enjoyed it! Learned lots of new things that we will be applying at our company over the next 6 months. “I came to BoS in 2011 and again in 2012. One thing I have noticed is that the conversation works best [...]
Thanks to Stephen Kellett, English Bagpiper extraordinaire, for bootlegging the entirety of the BoS BOS Big Band live sets. Here are the two sets, in their entirety. The classic rock set, (and listen from about 8.00 minutes in for the jam session that gives you just an inkling of the talent in that scratch band). The [...]
BOS 2012 WORKSHOP, TEAM ‘AVENGERS’ OUTPUT BOS 2012 WORKSHOP, TEAM ‘DECRAPIFIED HAMSTER BADASSES’ OUTPUT BOS 2012 WORKSHOP, TEAM ‘WALLABIES’ OUTPUT BOS 2012 WORKSHOP, TEAM ‘BADASSES MAKING BADASSES’ OUTPUT BOS 2012 WORKSHOP, TEAM ‘REPLACEMENT REFS’ OUTPUT BOS 2012 WORKSHOP, THE ‘BADASS TEAM’ OUTPUT BOS 2012 WORKSHOP, TEAM ‘MARSHMALLOW MISFITS’ OUTPUT BOS 2012 WORKSHOP, TEAM ‘CAN HAVZ [...]
Some short excerpts of the band at Business of Software this year. I know a guy standing at the front with an iPhone 5 got one of the songs complete on video. If you are that person, please get in touch. Would love to see it. If you see a man walking around Boston trying [...]
Here are some links to some of the blog posts from attendees at this year’s Business of Software Conference. Drop a link into the comments below if you want to add yours. First up, the BoS blogging demoness: Zuly Gonzalez from Light Point Security who is summarising each talk in a series of guest blogs. [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to 10 [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]
This year’s workshop sessions were designed to help get people talking and thinking together in smaller groups. We hope everyone had the opportunity to enjoy themselves and meet some interesting people. Each team had a maximum of 20 people from different companies and they all worked together to produce a series of specific outputs to [...]