‘Awesome people’, ‘My tribe’,’Quality of other attendees’, ‘Being surrounded by people smarter than me’.

A guest blog post – a quick read with 31 real life lessons learned building a SaaS business. Introducing Duane L Jackson, he’s like ‘Startup Jackson‘, but real.

Brianna Wu, 9 Ways We Can Stop Hurting and Start Helping Women in Tech

I was very surprised to overhear this comment from a woman at BoS in September. Nothing could be further from the truth. If this is an environment where women feel that, then I can’t imagine how tough it is on other places. We can take some pride I hope in creating a community where people feel safe, introverts become extroverts for a few days. It is not perfect.

Kathy Sierra, friend, scholar, teacher, badass awesome human. <3

Feeling sad and reflecting on why some people are just abominable. We should know Kathy for things like this.

We are great believers in encouraging the next generation of software entrepreneurs!

Sadly for her, my daughter, Violet has just started ‘big school’ so won’t be joining us this year. She had a brilliant time last year…

If you are thinking of bringing your children here are some things that you might like to know:

Is product management the most overlooked market opportunity for software right now? Nils Davis, BoS attendee, is throwing down the gauntlet:

Follow next week’s Business of Software Conference USA, follow us on Twitter or follow hashtag #BoS2014.

We will be posting some of the highlights here on the BoS USA 2014 Storify.

Hey, we are looking for a couple of volunteers to help us out with things at Business of Software Conference USA next week in Boston.

The BoS Bad Ass Team needs a couple of extra hands to help out at Business of Software USA Conference next week.

Very short (1 minute) video. Captures the spirit of Business of Software Conference Europe held earlier this year in Cambridge, England.

If you are getting in early for Business of Software Conference, this is the perfect way to see a little of Boston, meet some great people and get the inside scoop on Boston’s best bars.

The doyenne of Adwords wranglers, Dave Collins, has put together a nice little cheat sheet for anyone who is trying to use Adwords more effectively. If you use Adwords, here are Dave’s thoughts on how to get more from your adwords budget.

Avangate announced the recipients of its 2014 Business of Software Conference Scholarship today.

Even if you know next to nothing about marketing, you’ve probably heard of Seth Godin. Nobody knows more about how marketing works and how it can work for people building businesses.

What is a startup? Our recent conversations with BoS Alumni reminded us just how difficult it is to pin down a definition of, ‘startup’. We think Paul Graham is self interested in describing a startup as a potential billion $ business and it means far too much to other people. We also have a very special deal courtesy of Twilio and Balsamiq for a few lucky startups to attend Business of Software Conference for half price…

Ever wondered what it is like to live without the Internet for a few days? I just did a week with no phone and no Internet in the middle of France. We went camping en famille.

Back at BoS2010 a young, rather nervous looking engineer in a green tee launched into his Lightning Talk. He’d rather shamelessly stolen his opening line.