Since I wrote my post about setting goals for quitting my day job, I’ve been working feverishly to increase my “non-day job” income. I’m very serious about handing in my resignation by year’s end, and if I can meet the financial goals I have set up for myself, there will be no reason to keep […]

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In hopes of meeting my goal of saying bye-bye to the day job by the end of the year, I’ve gone and set some crazy goals for myself lately. It’s all good, but trying to meet my goals hasn’t left me much time to blog. Many apologies!
As a fellow or aspiring microISV-er, I’m sure you’ve […]

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Last weekend, the father of one of my daughter’s friends was standing in my kitchen.  He was obviously noticing the disaster I had created all over the counters and right out into the living room.  Papers with sketches, disassembled computers, weird glued together prototypes… he didn’t ask what the mess was all about (I’m sure […]

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My eight year old today asked me why the iKollect website has the word “Beta” at the top. I was explaining to her how the whole software release cycle works when it dawned on me that maybe I shouldn’t be in Beta anymore. So my eight year old and I reviewed the […]

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When my wife and I started on the idea of the iKollect.com website about a year ago, we were going with the “Field of Dreams” approach to running a business. We figured that if we could build an application that people wanted to use, the traffic would start flowing in and all we would […]

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