Joel Spolsky — in his usual combination of good sense and humor — this week put out Camels and Rubber Duckies which tries to answer the question “How much should I charge for my software?”. As Joel warns up front, you’ll learn a lot more about pricing but still won’t know how much to charge. In a straightforward path, Joel leads to the idea of segmentation, or charging different customers different prices. Airline tickets are the classic example of such segmentation, but it doesn’t seem to work as well in the software business. Joel includes some good arguments against site…
Eric Sink’s latest columns is up on MSDN: Finding a Product Idea for Your Micro-ISV. Eric has been writing a monthly column for MSDN from the perspective of an independent software vendor. He started using the term “Micro-ISV” to mean a software company with just one person. In this month’s column, he points out among other things that someone beat him to it and register the microisv.com domain name. But, at least a growing community has formed there with some useful information and pointers to other blogs. The focus this month is finding product ideas for your newly-founded single-person adventure.…