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It’s payback time. In our first ever BoS caption contest we highlighted a photo of Paul Kenny from Business of Software 2011. We received a lot of good caption suggestions, but Paul chose Jason Cohen’s “Selling is really about getting your arms around their heads and blowing your features into their brains.” quote as the [...]
We know that some startups go to a lot of trouble to get to Business of Software. It is not cheap but those that get in tell us it is worth it. (Please remember, BoS is not sponsored, our only income is from ticket sales). It is great to have some of the raw energy that [...]
A few people have asked who comes to Business of Software – is it startups or big companies (the price isn’t aimed at the startup world after all…)? The short answer is that there is a broad mix of people, one of the things that makes the event so special, but everyone has an interest [...]
A week ago I was sitting on the patio of the InterContinental Hotel in Boston as we did some reconnaissance for BoS2012. It sits next to an historic place – the site of the Boston Tea Party (the boats in the picture below are replicas of the original, located on the site where the process of American Independence started). Quite a [...]
Food. Armies march on their stomachs and while we are not expecting any fighting at Business of Software this year, we are trying to make sure that the standard of food is as high as you would expect. We want to make sure there is good choice for everyone, especially the vegetarians. Last week, Wendi, [...]
If you have been to Business of Software before, you will know, Lightning Talks are an important part of the program. They follow a simple format – every speaker gets 15 slides and 30 seconds per slide to talk about a subject of their choice. The slides advance automatically. They also give some amazing people a platform [...]
Appreciate all the feedback via the blog, email and twitter about the new website. You will see some changes already and more in the offing. We are particularly keen to make sure that video content is easy to find. Congratulations to Matthew Lam, who wins the case of Soda Pop Sodas. Matthew, please email me your [...]
The awesome John Knox sponsored some Business of Scholarships last year to enable some deserving early stage companies to come to BoS. Korey Lee from SumAll was one of the lucky recipients. We’re really pleased for them to hear that his company has just raised a $1.5 million seed funding round from investors including Matrix Partners. [...]
Putting on a conference is hard work (we know, not as hard as running a software business!) and these were just a few of the things that people said last year when we sat back at the end of the conference, exhausted, and said, “Was it worth it?” Thank you. “This is the best conference [...]
Update on Peldi’s talk for Business of Software 2012. As so many people coming to BoS want to think about ‘Growth’ Peldi is going to be talking about what he learned in growing his company so quickly. Expect lots of actionable tips and tricks and a sprinkle of Peldi humor. Coding is the easiest part! If [...]
Tobias Lutke, founder and CEO of Shopify, wants people to make sure their business is on the right side of history through code and culture. Quietly spoken, Tobias offered one of the most thought provoking talks of Business of Software 2011 by asking the question, “How we can build businesses that people won’t be embarrassed by in [...]
I thought this would be a good opportunity to run this guest blog from Stephen Kellett of Software Verify, prompted by a note I received this morning… I haven’t had permission to publish the details of the email so I have removed any personally identifiable information. The essence of the question though is, ‘Should bootstrapped businesses [...]
It might just be possible that one of the world’s leading management thinkers, Professor Clayton Christensen, author of the ‘Innovator’s Dilemma‘ and other extraordinary books will be remembered principally, not for his contribution to innovation and management thinking which is immense, but for the ideas he shares in his latest book, ‘How will you measure [...]
We thought it about time we moved the Business of Software website from the Jurassic period into the 21st century. But what do you think? Is there anything here that you think is missing? Leave your comments (now that is a new thing ) and we’ll do our best to make the appropriate changes.
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 [...]
If you came to Business of Software 2011, you can access all the talks from last year here using the passcode you were sent by email. Anyone registering for this year’s event will also receive a code to access the talks prior to their general release. Click on the talk you want to view and [...]
We were very excited when Professor Noam Wasserman, author of The Founder’s Dilemmas - Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup agreed to speak at Business of Software this year especially when he offered to get involved in a guest blog to see whether we could apply some of the lessons he has learned [...]
I am still celebrating the news (you heard it first here!) that Professor Noam Wasserman has agreed to speak at this year’s Business of Software on the subject of Founders Dilemmas. Not only that, he has generously agreed to try to answer some of your questions in a guest blog to be published at the [...]
They went already. Probably before some of you even got the email to let you know registration was open. Registration for Business of Software 2012, (October 1-3rd October) is now open! Hurry, not only do the EARLY BIRD rates save you $$$$$, the first 25 registrations for Business of Software 2012 will get a copy [...]
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 [...]
Anonymized from the conference feedback… “My BoS commitment was to free myself up so I could dedicate as much time and energy to building my company and getting v1.0 of my flagship product ready for launch. Realising this was going to be near impossible while working a fulltime job, I made a commitment at BoS to [...]
To save me answering the same question by email 7 times per day, I will do what I should have done before… We will post all of the talks from Business of Software 2011 online over the next year. We will choose when we make them available. Of course we use them to post over [...]
Balsamiq's Peldi gets stressed to the max while preparing the night before his interview with John Nese of Soda Pop Stop. Marco plays the role of John. Warning, contains no bad language but there is much giggling. You can see some ofthe pictures from the real interview here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bos2011/ It would be fair to say that [...]
Beau Adkins writes, "Along with Zuly, I attended Business of Software (BoS2011) this year. This was my first time attending, and I have to say it was an intense 3 days; lots of learning and lots of networking. Although I had a good time and met a lot of really nice people, I’m glad to be back home [...]
If you were at BoS last week, you might remember Paul Kenny asked people to make a commitment to putting something in place in their business within 7 days of BoS2011 finishing and pass it on to someone else in the room. I am putting $10 (about £3 of your English pounds using an exchange [...]
Some great tweetable lines from this year's Business of software Conference as collected by the inimitable Zuly Gonzalez of Light Point Security. Zuly won a Stack Exchange (stunning idea), sponsored place to Business of Software for being an awesome community member. A sample here from the first talk by Professor Clayton Christensen… Clayton Christensen Image Credit: [...]
Lots of blogging going on post Business of Software. We will link to, and run some of the stories, notes and opinions over the next few weeks. First up, James Young, of EzCoC with his six key takeaways. "Business of Software 2011October 24-26Boston, MA I just arrived back home in Raleigh after attending this year’s Business [...]
We didn’t get a chance to get all the speakers together at BoS 2011 for a photo, so I drew them instead. The image might be wider than the browser window, so expand it to see all the figures. There are other sizes / high-res for printing etc. on flickr. I’m on twitter and Google+too. [...]
It's complicated… We had a metric f-tonne of entries. Thank you. We decided to award the prize to the person that had the most actionable idea that had a chance of scaling. There are two entries that we thought expressed particularly good ideas. Some guy called Dharmesh(?) https://twitter.com/#!/dharmesh/status/129223285467660288 Every great programmer should help two other developers just [...]