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Building a software service isn’t all about the bells and whistles. Imagine coming up with a killer small business software application. You spend countless hours testing and writing to get all the aspects of the software working flawlessly. After you nail down what you know to be a functional application, you pitch it to people […]
You probably wouldn’t know just to look at him but Paul – at least according to his friends – is an intimidating card shark. What’s also not obvious at first glance is how this savvy entrepreneur created and funded his company, attracting an impressive 1,000 customers in the first two years. Paul shares with us […]
Meet the man who helped me launch my new software, KontentFlow. Paul and I have been working on KontentFlow for a while, and I can happily say it’s now going beta. Paul and I are thrilled. Unlike myself, Paul has developed multiple successful software applications including many enterprise-level systems. He’s also a savvy business person. […]
Creating high quality content and then distributing it to your client’s websites and social media platforms is a time consuming process that involves a lot of moving parts. It can also be a very profitable source of recurring revenue, if done efficiently. KontentFlow is a brand new application that we’ve been developing for the last […]
Someone people say said is print is dead… Apparently, Vitaly Golomb didn’t hear them. Vitaly has been a part of one of the greatest moves towards this industry’s revival in the past decade. Find out how he lead the charge to create an InterTech Technology Award-Winning start-up (with other winners including Photoshop in 1991) and change […]
First, let me say this: I cannot write code – AT ALL. Luckily, to be successful in software, I don’t need to know how. My first attempt at creating software was a WordPress plugin that helps agencies connect with clients that don’t have mobile-friendly websites. I hired a developer to create the MobiLead Magnet for […]
By any measure, Josh Ledgard’s software company has become a huge success. In just two years, Kickofflabs.com has attracted 24,000 customers. Josh lets us behind the scenes to show us how Kickofflabs achieved these impressive results. He shares the groundwork they put in place, including how they came up with the Kickofflabs name, how they […]
The software business – like so many others – is extremely unpredictable. If you’re not careful, it can suck up more time and money than you ever thought possible, and never generate enough cash flow to even get off the ground. But it can also be one of the best businesses, with the potential to […]
Do you think you need a fancy website, and business card, and plenty of startup capital to start a business? If you do, you’re dead wrong. Sam Ovens started his marketing consulting business with no clue of what he was going to sell, no idea who would buy it, no idea how he’d actually deliver […]
Building a successful marketing blog is no easy task because there is a LOT of competition. Building a software company that sells software for a monthly fee is even harder. Have success with on or both of these endeavors and you are on your way to one heck of an exciting entrepreneurial adventure! In this […]