Customer: “I want a demo…well I really want to try before I buy”
Sales Guy: “You want me to wash you and you don’t want me to get you wet.”
Customer: “Exactly”
Deal done! Made me laugh.
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July 13, 2007A Great Site for Budding Entrepreneurs
July 12, 2007Kaufman eVenturing is a simple superb web site for any budding entrepreneur. It has all sorts of wonderful content from articles about valuations of pre-revenue companies to sample term sheets and advice on a wide variety of topics. Thoroughly recommended.
Open Source Security Business Models
June 19, 2007I have been having some interesting private discussions with friends over the last few days about the virtues of open source software development. I will say up front I have long been a skeptic.
Larry Augustin has been following the amount of VC money being invested in OS software companies. It shows an interesting story.
2004
$298MM
36 [...]
Finally Real World Security Solutions Emerge
June 8, 2007You don’t need fluffy marketing and spin when you solve real world problems. Brilliant! I know of many companies who need just this.
The Firewall Mixer from Matasano.
Solve real problems and not try and invent new ones. There is a new hope!
SourceClear Diary of a Startup (May)
June 5, 2007First off you will notice this is the Diary entry for May and not weeks six to ten. Weekly entries were simply becoming onerous. Secondly you will notice I am still late. Nothing changes!
Bootstrapping Was Yesterday - I Want to Move Faster!
It has been a frustrating month to say the least. If I look at the big [...]
SourceClear Diary of a Startup - Week 6
May 15, 2007This week focuses on the frustration of small agile development projects and thinking about the competitive landscape.
Last week I posted a very simple Diary of a Startup blog that summed up exactly the week we had.
You can have software that is Fast, Cheap and Good but you can’t have all three at once.
To [...]
SourceClear Diary of a Startup - Week5
May 7, 2007You can have software that is;
……..that’s right: Fast, Good and Cheap……you just can’t have all three at once.
SourceClear Diary of a Startup Week 4
May 1, 2007Every week I start to write the next episode in this series I want to start with a few comments about how I wish days had 40 hours and weeks had 20 days. I think by now it’s well understood (by me and this blogs readers) that there will never be enough hour’s in a day [...]
SourceClear Diary of a Startup - Week 3
April 21, 2007Yes it’s Tuesday and I am manipulating the date stamp on the blog so it looks like this was posted last Friday. I told you I would be honest! Last week was incredibly busy and we learnt some good lessons.
Superhuman Activity is for Superhuman’s
.NET was the Right Choice
Tortoise and Hare Syndrome
AGILE Development and Product Management
Never Under [...]
SourceClear Diary of a Startup - Week 2
April 15, 2007What a week. Our first full week in the driving seat. We took yesterday off, went to Albi (hung out in a “salon du the” and gouged on fresh nougatine and hand-made chocolate) and still managed to knock up 80 + hours by Friday night.
Influencers and Interesting Early Stage Business Models
We have pitched our ideas to a number [...]
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