Future Alex

As a solo bootstrapped founder you already have so much risk involved in starting a business that you shouldn't take on technology risk. This applies especially to developer founders who are prone to shiny object syndrome and want to apply the newest cool technology to their new venture. My advice: don't. Stick to first principles and technology that you consider boring because you know your way around it in your sleep.

Another of my failure stories on the entrepreneurial journey. Actually my first commercial project where I sold real products to real people for real money. And then gave up too early, made tons of mistakes and in the end still happy about doing it!

In an attempt to improve my website monitoring I made a list of tests I'd like to run on my public facing websites and audited my existing monitoring services to reveal I wasn't at the level of monitoring I'd like to be. Unfortunately some research later and I still couldn't find a solution that covered all my bases.

After finishing work for my first company and finding myself with some time on my hand I decided to give full time blogging a go for a year. I started a technical blog around Microsoft Azure for Startup CTOs with in-depth articles when two months in the opportunity for my second company arrived and I abandoned my blogging career. Learn about how I started and how I'm winding it down now.

Today I'll list the six habits I'm sticking to or experiments I'm running to stay healthy and sane while being a Solopreneur.

After talking about microsites yesterday I launched the first microsite for my own new product and talk through what my next steps are.

In this episode I talk about microsites as a marketing and sales strategy, what types of microsites there are and what to look out for.

Every entrepreneur has many failure stories and I'm sure I'll have some more in future too. This one is about a lunch deal website I started at the same time as a competitor had the same idea, the thoughts we had about what made us better and the revelations of why we shut down and they survive to this date.

How could local collective of electronics stores realistically take on Amazon to provide not only the same or possibly even a better services?

It's the end of another week and I talk about how the week started strong and then a dip in energy needed to be corrected. Also some thoughts about sharing this podcast to a wider audience, the fear of providing value and putting yourself out there. Fear of failing.