Category Archives: Business

I have changed the price of our first product, CSV Manager from $97 to $47, for the entry level license. This was not an easy decision. No pricing decision ever is. CSV Manager was launched in September 04, so I … Continue reading →

One of the beta reviewers for our new product, XML Manager, asked me why I had not documented the development process on this blog. She suggested that it would be very interesting and useful for potential clients to see the … Continue reading →

Big news this Monday. Ricebridge Software has launched our second Java component: XML Manager. It turns your XML into a list of data records, ready for processing. Check out the demo (all AJAX-ified, if I do say so myself!). We're … Continue reading →

I just got my copy of Entrepreneur Focus, a new book on starting-up companies by Eric Locken. He asked me to do an interview for the book about my experiences starting Ricebridge, so with an ego the size of a … Continue reading →

Business ideas are worthless. Trouble is, when you get one, you can never believe otherwise. They usually strike around bedtime, and before you know it, you've designed a full-scale enterprise architecture to support the concept by 1AM, prepared an initial … Continue reading →

So you want to start your own software company? You've got a great product idea and it's a simple case of programming to get the first version together. Then you have to put up a website, and a payment system. … Continue reading →

If you sell software and a customer discovers a bug in your code, it's not a nice feeling. In fact, you get a very nasty sinking feeling in your gut. And the first thing that your gut says is: “shh! … Continue reading →