A Precarious Balance

If you've read through some of my posts, you probaby get the idea that I'd like to be on my own, that I'd like to make a software product useful enough that some group of people (hopefully a large group) would buy it. And if you didn't get that idea, well there it is. Upon embarking on that course years ago, it became my goal to be the best at ...

If you need to build a custom application yet desire to re-use it for other customers or sell it as a ''packaged'' product, there are a couple of guidelines that apply. If you have some guidelines that aren't listed here, or you think mine could use some correcting or beefing up, feel free to do so in the comments. Prepare for ...

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 cheap, but Walmart-ish in the way that you could go to TurboPower and find whatever you need for ...

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 seemed to high. The situation that sticks out most in my mind is TurboPower. During my ...