Startup Journey
Making RSS work for your micro-ISV
I just love RSS. I can't remember what life was like before it. I get all my news that way, via Google Reader on my iGoogle home page. I...
By Peldi
Search Engine Optimization? Check! :)
I am extremely happy to report that Balsamiq.com turns up as the coveted #2 spot for Google searches for "web office plugins", which is exactly the space I am...
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Weekly update, a bit late
Hey there, sorry for not posting this last Sunday. Basically the update is that I haven't be carve out some uninterrupted time to focus on Mockups development this week....
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Why don't I host Mockups myself?
A couple of beta testers have asked me why I don't host Mockups on balsamiq.com as a ad-based or subscription-based niche Web 2.0 app. First let me get the...
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Preparing for Launch
Doing my homework in preparation for launch: Press for Startups: 10 tips 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You The Art of Sucking Up Five Wrong Ways...
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Weekly Update: 2nd week of April
Hi there, quick update. This past week: I fixed the remaining bugs in Mockups For Confluence. I spent 2 hours at Atlassian chasing down my last big bug only...
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Weekly Update: 1st week of April
Man things are hectic around here, there are boxes everywhere! I just sold half of my personal belongings to my friends, crazy mixed feelings abound. Anyways, quick update: It...
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Weekly Update, a bit late
Hey there, here's what happened in Balsamiq-land since last week's update: I fixed the blocking Mockups+Confluence bugs I set up my build machine to post new builds of the...
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Weekly Update: week of March 17th
Hi there, I'll try to keep it short this time Coding - I finally got around to writing the licensing, serial-key / 30-day-trial code I needed. I was dreading...
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Weekly Update
Let's see, what did I do this week. Website: I wrote a few more pages, including the Privacy Policy (I know, fun). Still too many broken links though, I'm...
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Too overwhelmed to post
Hi there, you might be wondering what happened to me in the last couple of weeks. In short, so much has happened that I was too overwhelmed to write...
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Email to advisors for "about us" page
Here's another email I sent this week, asking for help. This time I wanted my advisors to send me a little blurb for my "about us" page, along with...
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Introductory Email to a lawyer
One of the reasons I have this blog is to help others like me who might be starting a software company on their own (micro-ISV-ers?). So if you are...
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Balsamiq update: Week of Feb 11th
Welcome to another long rambling weekly update. In this post: Product Updates: Mockups Website Update Beta Updates Business Updates What I’m reading How I’m feeling Product Updates: Mockups Fixed...
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Balsamiq Update: Week of Feb 4th
Hello friends. Here's what happened in Balsamiq-land this past week. In this post: Product Updates: Mockups and FlatWorld Website Update Beta Updates Business Updates What I'm reading How I'm...
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Alpha time!
I have sent a link to an alpha build of Balsamiq Mockups to two of my most trusted advisors. I am so nervous, this will be the first time...
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balsamiq
So no-one liked WOPStudio, I was never really in love with it either. Plus someone pointed out that WOP doesn't really have very good connotations, given that I'm Italian...
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The web has come a long way
Before wopstudio.com, the last website I created was maybe 6 years ago. I have of course been staying in touch with technology and developments in web applications, but I...
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Welcome WopStudio
I decided on a company name today: WopStudio. Wop is for Web Office Plugins, but you don't have to remember that...just remember wopstudio, or wopstudio.com! 🙂 I like the...
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My Web Office Suite
Today I registered an account with Google Apps for webofficeplugins.com (I'll register another for wopstudio.com tomorrow). So now I have a pretty complete Web Office suite for my startup:...
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Web Office Plugins
Today I registered webofficeplugins.com - not a snazzy abstract Web2.0 company name, but it's descriptive and sums up nicely what I'm setting up to build, or at least the...
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It’s good to have a blog
Ok one last post before I go to bed. I just wanted to write down how good it feels to have a blog again. This will be my third...
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Starting to look into the startupping blogosphere
This reminds me of when I first looked around for parenting blogs...too much information and hard to tell what's good and what's not. Anyways, I found this wiki article...
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Looking for branding help
I just sent this email to a few friends of mine who work in advertising (most are pretty high-up and senior). I'm sharing it here for record-keeping and because...
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Website protected
Ok I just learned about .htaccess and used it to password protect the entire site. I feel better now, I'm not ready to have people at work know what...
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Ten Rules for Web Startups
I just came across this link by the founder of Blogger.com (I'll write more on him someday): ten rules for web startups It's encouraging to see other people (and...
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Setting up the server
Thanks to the awesome guys at ConnectSolutions.com Plus9 finally has a real home on the network. No more using my living room's mac-mini with a DynDNS and a flaky...
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