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DIY-IT Project: Software business crash course
David Gewirtz was a director of the Software Entrepreneurs' Forum, an executive at Symantec, had the title of "Godfather" at Apple, and ran an award-winning tech company for 20 years. Now, he's here to help you start your own software business. Buckle up!
Some of the most popular articles here on DIY-IT have been stories about how to succeed in business (and some cautionary tales about those who haven't). If you've ever wanted to create your own app, start your own software company, or make money in the business of technology, these articles are for you.
- The one secret you need to know to convert your app idea into piles of cash
- Cloud cramp: Read your terms of service before it's too late
- Five lessons Walt Disney and Steve Jobs can teach us about innovation
- PayPal et al: When your web site gets kicked in the SaaS
- So you have an app idea and want to make a bajillion bucks
- Open source anniversary: How adopting 10 WordPress plugins changed my life
- How to break into the mobile app business with little cash and no programming skill
- True confessions of a former iPhone developer
- Selling your software: Got the right resume for success?
- Traps marketing professionals face when starting companies
- Five ways companies use social media and look like jerks
- Licensing lessons PC software vendors can learn from Apple's App Store
- Selling software: Where have all the business models gone?
- So you want to be a publisher
- Advice for struggling PC software vendors
- Precision, depth, and flexibility: the ultimate difference between PC software and apps
- What not to do when doing tech PR
- EverythingMe: How to bet and lose $35 million on an Android launcher app
- The lock-in problem of email newsletter management
- Digg wasn't outmaneuvered. Greed and poor management buried it
- Dear tablet vendors: if you can't announce a price with your tablet, you're dead to us
- Five reasons I'm sticking with GoDaddy
- Mobile or else: Why omni-channel is your only hope
- Why I almost bit on bitcoin and nearly bought into the Butterfly Labs scam
- Why I kinda like GoDaddy. Hint: it's all about service.
- OK, people: 'Unlimited' does not mean three
- Prepare your data center for the zombie apocalypse
- This AT&T sales email looks like a phishing scam, but sadly it's real
- Billion-dollar mistake: How inferior IT killed Target Canada
- Three sure-fire techniques for losing small business customers
Feel free to bookmark this page. More articles are always being added. Now, go out there and build something great!
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