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		<title>Tips to Market Your Software on a Shoestring Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m in my third decade of selling software.  What’s amazing to me is how much easier it is today to market and sell software over the Web, versus back in the “old days” when we had to mess with disk duplication and mailing, snail mail correspondence, cashing checks and postal orders by hand, and providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Software Innovators of All Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be a “most important” innovation, an innovation has to be an idea that is very widely used and is critically important where it applies. &#8211; David A. Wheeler It&#8217;s not easy choosing the best innovators in an industry defined by innovation. The nature of software is such that the technologies, systems and products completely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Venture Capital Spreads Beyond Silicon Valley</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have a software startup and are looking to raise big money from venture capitalists, Silicon Valley in California is the place to be.&#160; But new data from PricewaterhouseCoopers, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Thomson Financial shows that several cities outside Silicon Valley have the highest growth rates for startups and venture capital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funding a Software Startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Launching a startup software company is like legal gambling:&#160; The stakes are high, the odds are against you, but with persistence and good luck, you could strike it rich.&#160; But as the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money, and software startups can burn through cash like a brush fire through Silicon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One-Third of PC Software is Pirated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About one-third of all software installed on personal computers globally in 2006 was pirated, according to a study from IDC.&#160; This resulted in a worldwide software revenue loss of $40 billion, an increase of more than $5 billion&#160;or 15% over 2005.&#160; The software piracy rate exceeded 60% in&#160;more than half of the 102 countries studied, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Empowers Small ISVs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 13:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft offers a generous program to help new independent software vendors (ISVs) develop and launch their products faster and cheaper.&#160; The Microsoft &#8220;Empower for ISVs&#8221; program offers software, support, and additional resources designed to help ISVs reduce development costs, test their software on multiple Windows platforms, and improve time-to-market.&#160; Empower is a one-year membership for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Advances in Software Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 20:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started my professional programming career over 20 years ago on the Commodore Amiga.&#160; The Amiga was a state-of-the-art personal computer, with&#160;a proprietary operating system, windowed GUI, and dedicated sound and graphics chips when the IBM PC was still saying, &#8220;C:DOS RUN.&#8221; The Amiga computer was fast for its time, but maddeningly slow in hindsight: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Markets Compared</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 18:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my 25 years as a software entrepreneur, I&#8217;ve had the pleasure and challenge of selling PC software to three major markets: large enterprises, general consumers, and software developers.&#160; Of course, each target market has its own advantages and disadvantages, which I summarize below.&#160; Note this list is from the perspective of a small software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello, World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The default WordPress blog title &#8220;Hello, World&#8221; seems appropriate for the debut article of a software development blog, so I&#8217;ve decided to keep it. I never thought I would write a blog.&#160; Adding to the 175,000 new blogs on the Web each day didn&#8217;t seem like a worthwhile endeavor.&#160; What could I possibly say that [...]]]></description>
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