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The Optimizing for Happiness Business Plan

This is a guest post by Jennifer Rullmann. Jen is a developer-turned-entrepreneur based in the Washington, D.C. area.  Her company makes Convey, software that plugs friendly, cost-saving user guides into your application with very little effort.  She blogs about creating delightful companies and software at Software Smitten. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Every startup begins life with infinite choices, and there [...]

Kathy Sierra on Designing for Badass

This is a guest post by Paul Pedrazzi. Paul is a novice coder, aspiring designer, and professional product manager at companies like PeopleSoft, Taleo and Oracle. Paul blogs at http://craftedresonance.quora.com. ——————————————————————————————————————————— The Business of Software is easily my favorite conference of the year. It is held annually in Boston. The next event is October 28–30, [...]

Creating An Instant Board Of Advisors

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 [...]

Business of Software meetup – Washington DC

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 [...]

How Our Jobs Are Killing Us and What We Can Do About It – Fitness for Software Nerds

This is a guest post by Brock Armstrong. Brock is a musician, web developer and digital media instructor turned personal trainer, marathon and triathlon coach. To fund his Triathlon & Marathon racing habit, he takes well planned designs and turns them into clean and consistent HTML and CSS code. Find out more by going to [...]

Be Fearless

The following is a guest post by Jody Burgess. Jody is a software marketing exec turned startup entrepreneur. She is cofounder and CMO of Tribbon, a service that makes it easier to remember the people you meet and the experiences you share at events. She also provides strategic marketing consulting and outsourced CMO services for [...]

Welcome to Boston – Things to Do

This is a guest post from Joe Corkery. Joe is Vice President of Business Development at OpenEye Scientific Software in Cambridge, MA. Remarkably, Joe has been with OpenEye for nearly 13 years helping it grow from 3 people to over 40 at last count. In an earlier life, Joe ran away from writing code to [...]

16 Tips for Connecting with Others at Business of Software

This is a guest post from Trevor Lohrbeer. Trevor is the founder and CEO of Lab Escape, a data visualization company that sells heat maps for embedding into desktop & web applications. He blogs about how to optimize your decisions at Lean Decisions and on entrepreneurship, networking and personal development at Fast Fedora. ————————————————————————————————————————————— Attending [...]

Why do you want to have a startup?

This is a guest post from Joca Torres. Joca is the director of product development and product management at Locaweb, Brazil’s leader in web hosting, cloud servers and SaaS applications like email marketing and online stores, serving more than 250,000 customers. His first startup experience was in the early 1990s when he founded and ran [...]

Preparing for a Lightning Talk

This is a guest post from Joe Corkery. Joe is Vice President of Business Development at OpenEye Scientific Software in Cambridge, MA. Remarkably, Joe has been with OpenEye for nearly 13 years helping it grow from 3 people to over 40 at last count. In an earlier life, Joe ran away from writing code to [...]

How long does it take to be profitable?

This is a guest post from Joca Torres. Joca is the director of product development and product management at Locaweb, Brazil’s leader in web hosting, cloud servers and SaaS applications like email marketing and online stores, serving more than 250,000 customers. His first startup experience was in the early 1990s when he founded and ran [...]

Your opinions are hurting other entrepreneurs

This is a guest post from Mike Taber. Mike is a Boston area entrepreneur who is the founder of Moon River Software, Moon River Consulting, and co-founder of the Micropreneur Academy. He blogs semi-sporadically at SingleFounder.com and is currently working on AuditShark, a security product designed to provide awareness of the security posture of your [...]

“Me-too” products are fine

This is a guest post from Alex Yumashev. Alex is a founder of Jitbit – a UK-based self-funded startup with a suite of customer support oriented products. You can find his blog at blog.jitbit.com and meet him at the Business of Software 2012 this October. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Does this sound familiar? “Innovate!” “Differentiate!” “Revolutionize!” “Disrupt!” “Shake [...]

Keep an eye on the long-term numbers

This is a guest post from Joca Torres. Joca is the director of product development and product management at Locaweb, Brazil’s leader in web hosting, cloud servers and SaaS applications like email marketing and online stores, serving more than 250,000 customers. His first startup experience was in the early 1990s when he founded and ran [...]

From Zero to $5 Million Annually

This is a very inspirational guest post from Ameet Shah. Ameet is the founder of Conigent, a service based company. In this guest post Ameet shares with us his story of how he turned his first product based company to a wild success based on what he learned from Business of Software 2011. Thanks for [...]

Be a “data geek”

This is a guest post from Joca Torres. Joca is the director of product development and product management at Locaweb, Brazil’s leader in web hosting, cloud servers and SaaS applications like email marketing and online stores, serving more than 250,000 customers. His first startup experience was in the early 1990s when he founded and ran [...]

How the best bosses & companies interview for ‘Culture Fit’. Guest blog: Mikey Trafton.

Guest blog from Business of Software 2012 speaker, Mikey Trafton, of Fire Ant Software. You might not have heard of Fire Ant Software yet but Jason Cohen credits him with giving Jason the best advice he has received as an entrepreneur. Listen up! You can also join Mikey Trafton on September 5th at (11.00 EST), [...]

How to build software fast and with quality?

This is a guest post from Joca Torres. Joca is the director of product development and product management at Locaweb, Brazil’s leader in web hosting, cloud servers and SaaS applications like email marketing and online stores, serving more than 250,000 customers. His first startup experience was in the early 1990s when he founded and ran [...]

How Will You Measure Your Team?

This is a guest post from Jonathan Alexander. Jonathan is VP Engineering at Vocalocity.  He is the author of Codermetrics: Analytics for Improving Software Teams published by O’Reilly in 2011. Jonathan’s guest post is on adapting honest, self-evaluation to measure your team. —————————————————————————————————————————————– In the new book How Will You Measure Your Life? Clayton Christensen [...]

Why you should give a Lightning Talk

This is a guest post from Joe Corkery. Joe is Vice President of Business Development at OpenEye Scientific Software in Cambridge, MA. Remarkably, Joe has been with OpenEye for nearly 13 years helping it grow from 3 people to over 40 at last count. In an earlier life, Joe ran away from writing code to [...]

In search of talent

This is a guest post from Ricardo D. Sanchez. Ricardo is a software engineer working for HomeAway in Austin, TX. He is an aspiring entrepreneur working nights and weekends on his software startup, Palo Software. He is also passionate about bringing techies and entrepreneurs together, something he is able to do with his blog and [...]

Building an MVP in 10 days

This is a guest post from Joca Torres. Joca is the director of product development and product management at Locaweb, Brazil’s leader in web hosting, cloud servers and SaaS applications like email marketing and online stores, serving more than 250,000 customers. His first startup experience was in the early 1990s when he founded and ran [...]

Why the hurry to launch an MVP?

This is a guest post from Joca Torres. Joca is the director of product development and product management at Locaweb, Brazil’s leader in web hosting, cloud servers and SaaS applications like email marketing and online stores, serving more than 250,000 customers. His first startup experience was in the early 1990s when he founded and ran [...]

Guest Blog: Gregory Menvielle, Pyramedium – Why I’m attending BoS 2012.

A guest blog from Gregory Menvielle, CEO and Founder of Pyramediumand one of the smaller ISVs that come to Business of Software on a regular basis. We were happy to see Gregory when he came up to Cambridge recently to look at a Mummy (he is an Egyptologist in another life…). We love hearing stories [...]

Business of Software – where entrepreneurship is catching apparently…

Anyone who has been to Business of Software will have bumped into our amazing camera guy, Lerone Wilson at some point in the course of the event. There was us thinking we were paying him to make those awesome Business of Software videos that you can view at your convenience post event but NO! In [...]

Should you come to Business of Software if you are a small, bootstrapped business?

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 [...]

Guest blog: Professor Noah Wasserman: The ‘When’ and ‘How’ of Letting Go of your Company.

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 [...]

Today I quit my job to focus on my startup

Guest blog post from Dan Nolan who came to Business of Software and then quit his job to run his startup. Good luck Dan! I recently attended Business of Software in Boston, and at the conclusion of the event Paul Kenny asked everyone to make a tangible commitment to act on something they had learnt during the conference. My [...]

“What’s Your Tuva?” Guest blog from Lisa Wells, Product Principles

A nice guest blog by Lisa Wells, Product Principles on this year's Lightning Talks. Every Fall for the last three years I’ve made a pilgrimage to absorb wisdom face-to-face from software greats like Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, and Eric Ries at the Business of Software (BoS) conference. It’s an expensive conference, but it’s worth every penny to get [...]

Inventing Purple Cows. Guest blog from Richard Muscat.

A guest blog from Richard Muscat, a designer and Head of User Experience at Red Gate Software. He studied creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship at the Edward de Bono Institute in Malta and seems to spend most of his time moving cats off his armchair. My upcoming workshop at Business of Software boldly claims that [...]



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