Fantastical is an all new calendar for Mac, which works as a (beautiful) front end for iCal, Outlook or Entourage. It offers one of the most well designed user interfaces of any Mac application on the market. To share the background story on Fantastical, and to offer his advice on the world of startups we invited the co-founder of Fantastical, Michael Simmons, to have a chat.
Don’t think of non-paying users as a burden, but as an advertising expense.
When you are trying to earn revenue from your freemium product, the non-paying users can often seem like an unnecessary expense - you end up paying mo ...
How changing the name of my webapp quadrupled signups.
The name of a product often means a lot more than many people realize: it plays a major role in determining both the quantity of media coverage that t ...
Is it impossible to succeed in a crowded software market?
With the emergence of low-cost publishing solutions in mobile app stores the software market has become crowded in a number of niche areas. The concep ...
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How my startup launched to 50,000 daily pageviews with just a few emails.
June 11, 2011, 6 CommentsThe launch of any startup is often the most important factor in determining the success of the product in the short-term, and consequently it's vital that it is done successfully. Today we are sharing the story of a Windows software develop ...
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Why your startup shouldn’t focus on growth OR profitability.
June 11, 2011, 4 CommentsWithin the world of startups today, there are two distinct opinions on the importance of growth and profitability in a business: those who believe that profitability should always be secondary to rapidly expanding the user base of the produ ...
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How I doubled the price of my software product – and sold ten times as many copies.
June 10, 2011, 45 CommentsDecreasing the price of your software product doesn't necessarily mean you will sell more copies, and increasing the price certainly doesn't mean you will sell less: today we are sharing the story of a Windows software developer who, by inc ...
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‘Not failing’ should be the central aim in the first six months of any startup.
June 4, 2011, 5 CommentsDuring his backstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, Ashton Kutcher made an offhand, exceptionally insightful comment regarding his investments in startups: 'I don't like to fail'. While obviously simple, the notion of just 'not ...
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Forget about raising capital for your startup and just build it.
May 20, 2011, 5 CommentsRaising capital has almost become the new 'must-do' step in launching a startup, just about every new founder seems to feel that finding investors is essential to succeed. With popular startup sites like TechCrunch constantly reporting on w ...
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Spaaze is a Virtual Corkboard to Organize Your Projects
April 27, 2011, 4 CommentsSpaaze is an entirely free online corkboard which lets users organize sticky notes, links, images, videos and basically anything else you could think of in an infinite canvas which is saved in real-time. It's a great way to organize separat ...
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