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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Spending a Lot of Time on the Website
Maybe because the clent-side of mockups is in pretty good shape, maybe because I bought two Web Usability related books and got sucked in by them, maybe because I'm...
New Website
I bought "Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES)", scanned its table of contents and was immediately dissatisfied with my previous website. At around the same time I found the 37signals website...
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...
Heads Down Time
I haven't blogged in a while because I have been heads down coding coding coding...working on the client-side of Mockups, and I am really pleased with the progress I...
Books Books Books
I have been reading a lot of books in preparation for "the big jump". I thought I'd post links here for the ones that I keep going back to,...
Igor Naming Guide
I just read this excellent PDF I found while thumbing through Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality again in preparation for my meeting with the branding gurus tomorrow. It made...
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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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
Google Analytics Hooked up
When did Google buy Urchin? I must have missed that...it's been so long since I've had a website I cared about. Anyways, I set up Google Analytics for this...
Book: “Founders at Work”
I am reading Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days, a collection of interviews to founders of some pretty famous companies, and some that failed famously like Visicalc....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...