Adventures In SoftwareLand : Independent Innovator

Update on MicroISV Evangelism

Michael Lehman — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:06:00 GMT

For the past 4 years I have had the enjoyable task of being the MicroISV Evangelist for Microsoft. Recently based on some organizational changes and task assignment realignment, I have begun to focus my attention full-time on other efforts and thus, effective now, am no longer tasked with MicroISV-related responsibilities.

If you are a MicroISV and are interested in working with Microsoft, I'd highly recommend checking out the BizSpark program and the Microsoft Startup Zone http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/pages/home.aspx

I may get the opportunity to attend SIC this year but it's looking increasingly unlikely. If I can swing a speaker slot at TechEd EMEA, I'll be visiting ESWC '09.

I thank all of the members of the MicroISV community for their interest and support and look forward to all your wonderful products which I, and millions of other Windows users, continue to enjoy each day.

MicroISV Show Interviews @ Software Industry Conference next week

Michael Lehman — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 04:32:00 GMT

UPDATE: Exhibit night is FRIDAY.

Bob Walsh and I are happy to announce two opportunities for you to be interviewed at SIC (www.sic.org) and get featured on our Microsoft Channel9 show (http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/The_MicroISV_Show).

We will be doing audio podcasts throughout SIC and you can request a time slot by emailing me.

In addition, on ~~Thursday’s~~ Friday's Exhibit Night, we will have our video camera set up in the Microsoft booth and you can come be interviewed on-camera (5 minute slots) for a special SIC-edition video MicroISV show episode which should appear on Channel9 the week following SIC. You do not have to pre-schedule Exhibit Night interviews.

Hope to see you there!

Gavin Bowman's Obligatory Blog aggregates MicroISV news

Michael Lehman — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:20:00 GMT

Gavin Bowman, proprietor of V4 Solutions, writes what he calls the "Obligatory Blog" (he says: These days if you run a software company, you have to have a Blog. This is mine).

Gavin is a MicroISV and subject of my first interview on The MicroISV Show, who now has a second product, congratulations!

On his blog, he does a weekly chronicle of doings in the MicroISV space under the headings of: News and Announcements, Relevant Blog Posts and Articles and Further (mostly relevant) Reading.

If you're a MicroISV, or want to be one, check out Gavin's Obligatory Blog regularly.

Launching The Independent Innovation Blog

Michael Lehman — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:41:00 GMT

IndependentInnovation.net - My new blog and podcast.

Independent Innovation is a new meme that is rapidly changing the work and personal lives of millions of people around the globe as the Internet and widespread adoption of broadband technology is enabling individuals and small groups to create new self-funded, live-anywhere, sustainable lifestyle companies that delivering their digital intellectual property (digita IP) products via the Internet.

I have been wanting for a while to expand my view beyond just MicroISVs to complement the work I do here at Microsoft and so I have just launched a new blog and podcast over at www.independentinnovation.net and invite all my Adventures In SoftwareLand readers to surf on over and check it out.

Most MicroISVs are Independent Innovators and so the site will feature frequent interviews and topics of interest to MicroISVs. In my experience most developers, no matter where and how they work, are also artistic in one sense or another (mostly musical) and you'll also find many interesting topics related to distribution and protection of digital IP of other forms over at IndependentInnovation.net as well.

On the new site I will be commenting about trends in the Independent Innovation space, interviewing both Indepdent Innovators and those who provide products and services to them as well as hosting guest blog posts by some of the thought leaders who are pointing the way to this new way of working and living.