A Precarious Balance

September 2005 - Posts

• Building your business systems

  I love seeing how a business works and I enjoy putting together systems to make it do so. But that can turn into a bad thing. At both TurboPower and ComponentScience, I was involved in writing and maintaining the systems that helped the business function. Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: ISV

• Top Sellers

  You'd think that if your company sold 20 products, you'd be doing pretty well even if it seems like you don't have enough cowboys to wrangle them . I'm not so sure. On occasion, we talked about TurboPower being a Walmart for software. Maybe not Walmart Read More... Posted Thursday, September 08, 2005 7:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 0 Comments Filed under: ISV, Customers, Products

• Too Many Products, Too Little Time

  There are quite a few things about being a software vendor that puzzle me. One is striking a balance between number of employed software engineers vs. number of products sold. I've been in a couple of situations where the ratio of products to programmers Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 06, 2005 9:00 AM by Sean Winstead | 1 Comments Filed under: ISV, Products