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In show #19 Bob and Pat interview one of the foremost authorities on understanding and shaping user experience, Lou Carbone. Why do people love Apple and hate cable companies, smile and recommend your startup to strangers or not go for your application although everything works? It’s all about the way your software and your company makes people feel and what they experience interacting with you and your product.

This is hard stuff for developers to get their heads around, but it’s critical to understanding what affect your products will have on your customers. We had a good talk with Lou, so no startup tool this week.

Bob has a quick tip for you: kosmix.com. And Pat offers a tip – check out the announcements coming out of Mix ’09 this week.

Download Show #19 here: StartupSuccess019.mp3 Or if you prefer, Subscribe to the podcast in Apple iTunes.

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Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com

Show Notes:

URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast:

• Kosmix.
• Lou Carbone : How can developers learn to create better UX?.
• Why Howard Johnsons failed.
• Lou Carbone’s company, Experience Engineering.
• Mix 09

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In show #18 Bob and Pat talk to Patrick Lightbody, founder of browsermob.com, a cloud-based web site performance and load testing company. Need 2,500 actual browsers running Selenium test scripts to pound on your server but don’t want to buy 2,500 boxes for about $1 million? Patrick’s Amazon Web Services-based service can do the job for $500.

Bob has a tip for those ready to go the next step with social networks, Pat has some advice for startups looking at what Windows 7 will offer, and Bob recommends a low-cost way of getting at least your product’s starter logo.

As you might have noticed, our 8-day weeks finally caught up with us and there was no show last week. We’ll try to avoid that in the future.

Download Show #18 here: StartupSuccess018.mp3 Or if you prefer, Subscribe to the podcast in Apple iTunes.

Please review it on iTunes we want your feedback.

Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com

Show Notes:

URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast:

• Ning.
• Drupal.
• Boonex Dolphin 6.1.
• A List of Top 10 Community Platform Solution Providers: Build Your Own Community!
• BrowserMob.com.
• Amazon Web Services.
• Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer’s Guide.
• Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 2 – Building Federated Search applications.
• Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1: BETA.
• 99designs.com.

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In our 14th show, Bob and Pat interview David Schenberg, CEO and cofounder of BusyEvent.com about how his company is disrupting the event management industry with $100 per event online event organizing, how “event management” has come to mean a lot more than big public events and how to build a successful startup off the beaten Silicon Valley path.

Bob has an avoid-the-pain tip for you, Pat talks about Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle, and this week’s tool for startups is using a wiki to capture all that non-code info you startup needs to function. Also, as of now, all of our past show’s mp3 files are being hosted via Amazon S3 instead of WordPress.com. This should make it much easier to download and enjoy past and future shows.

Download Show #14 here: StartupSuccess014.mp3 Or if you prefer, Subscribe to the podcast in Apple iTunes.

Please review it on iTunes we want your feedback.

Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com

Show Notes:

URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.

• The TED Conference.
• Bill Gates unleashes mosquitoes on TED attendees. And here.
• BusyEvent.
• BusyEvent Express.
• The BusyEvent Blog.
• PBWiki.
• A wiki worth a look: The Business of Software Wiki.
• Wiki Matrix.
• The Trustworthy Computing Security Development Lifecycle.

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In our 13th show, I interview Delphi Product Manager Nick Hodges on the future of the Delphi programming framework, how its new corporate owners are treating it and get answers to listener questions about Delphi.

I offer a startup tip: How 2009 is going to be the year you (yes you!) create video as easily as you email customers, Pat’s tip this week is don’t forget about Visual C++ for native code applications and Pat has two good email tools for startups using Windows.

Download Show #13 here: StartupSuccess013.mp3 Or if you prefer, Subscribe to the podcast in Apple iTunes.

Please review it on iTunes we want your feedback.

Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com

Show Notes:

URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.

• The Startup Success Podcast Facebook page.
• Interview with 2 Adobe Flex/AIR evangelists Feb 9 – we need your questions!.
• Jing Project – awesomely easy screen videos.
• For Windows – the leading screencast tool is Camtasia Studio.
• For Macs, check out ScreenFlow.
• One way to serve up those videos Screencast.com.
• What we use for the mp3 files here: Amazon S3.
• The Future of the Delphi Compiler
• Nick Hodge’s Blog
• Delphi 2009 product page.
• The CodeGear Home Page
• 3rdRail 2.0 Ruby on Rails IDE
• Pat’s tip: http://msdn.com/visualc
• Send Personally: Windows group mail personalizer
• SlickRun: A floating command line tool for Windows.

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In our 12th show, I interview Richard White, the founder of UserVoice.com. UserVoice is a web app redefining and disrupting customer feedback and is wildly popular on numerous startup sites and web apps. Richard shares how the ideas behind UserVoice, how he got attention for his fledgling startup, what he’s doing to monetize, insights on getting people to join your game and more.

I offer a video tip, Pat’s got a tip on getting your hands on a the code of fullblown Windows Azure app and I look at a tool for startups you need to bookmark: browsershots.

Download Show #12 here: StartupSuccess012.mp3 Or if you prefer, Subscribe to the podcast in Apple iTunes.

Please review it on iTunes we want your feedback.

Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com

Show Notes:

URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.

• Lynda Training Site.
• LearnVisualStudio.Net.
• Ryan Bates’ awesome Railcasts.
• Geoffrey Grosenbach’s not to be missed PeepCode Screencasts.
• UserVoice.
• Pat tip: http://www.codeplex.com/azureissuetracker.
• Our Tool for Startups: Browsershots (free version, premium version).