If You Even Think About Making Money With Software
One of the things I don’t cover much here at Talar Business Systems is producing software products for fun and profit. Yet it is one of the most profitable patch to make a good living, online or off line. Don’t kid yourself that becuase of the Open Source revolution there is no market for paid software … or for highly profitable add-on service to the users of that free software.
A guy who has been an entrepreneurial hero of mine for years, Joel Spolky was once a mid-level guy at Microfot … well on his way to the normal corporate career. he parted company with the big M and set off to build his own software company the way he felt it should be built.
He never looked back and he’s been making money ever since. Check out CoPilot, CityDesk and FogBugz (which I highly recommend) for just a few samples.
Joel has jumped into the conference world and this one sounds good enough to put on anyone’s calendar. If you want a place to spend a really great labor Day weekend and then put the rest of the short week to good use, you can’t do better thna Boston in early September. When I was in the government/corporate world I could go to Silicon valley on business … that is on my employer’s dime … virtually at will, but trips to Boston were hard to swing. Once I had been there, I found out why … Boston is a great torurist destination as well as a fantastic business environment … Google Route 128, and put this conference on your schedule:
Registration is now open for Business of Software 2008 (the first ever Joel on Software conference). Neil has lined up great speakers:
SETH GODIN, Business Week’s "Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age", is the best-selling author of 7 books (including Permission Marketing and Purple Cow) as well as the most popular eBook of all time.
ERIC SINK, founder of SourceGear, author of "Eric Sink on the Business of Software" and the person who coined the term "Micro ISV"
STEVE JOHNSON of Pragmatic Marketing and winner of last year’s Software Idol competition
RICHARD STALLMAN launched the development of the GNU operating system, now used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment
PAUL KENNY is one of the UK’s top sales trainers, consultants and speakers. He has worked with many customers in three continents, including IBM, Perot Systems, The Guardian and tens of others.
DHARMESH SHAH is a geek, serial entrepreneur, founder of HubSpot and blogger at OnStartups.com
JESSICA LIVINGSTON is author of Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days and a founder of Y Combinator
JASON FRIED is founder of 37signals (developers of Basecamp and Ruby on Rails) and Signal vs Noise blogger
JOEL SPOLSKY, aka, "me," noted DJ, has over 600 karma points on the social news site "Reddit."
BoS2008 is in BOSton, September 3-4. Boston is absolutely beautiful in September. The weather is usually perfect. You can go kayaking on the Charles or take the duck tour if you’re unambitious. Over 250,000 college students have just arrived, full of completely unjustifiable hope and optimism. The summer tourist crowd has mostly gone home so you can get into museums and historical sites. There are plenty of coffee shops that aren’t NASDAQ-listed.
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Could not agree more.
Should be a great conference and Boston in September is a great place to be.
[Note: I'm biased. I'm speaking at the conference and live in Boston]
Dharmesh, Thanks for visiting and for your comment. I haven’t even really got this site off the ground yet, but when I saw the announcement from Joel yesterday I just had to give him … and Boston … a free plug.
This is certainly a prime conference for anyone who really is interested in writing software/building a company, because many of the presenters have a very high success/experience level. I see very little ‘fluff’ in the program