Homesteading: The New Entrepreneurial Model

Learn how to build software that generates passive income by combining your entrepreneurial drive with your programming skills.

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1. The New Entrepreneurial Model Homesteading
2. teascript? and various other philisophical questions...
3. ground rules or how to keep from getting deprecated...
4. homesteading 500.times { timber.nail }
5. getting real
 37signals build less stay lean manage debt
6. getting real
 “The old school model of shipping software in a box and then waiting a year or two to deliver an update is fading away.”
7. from nil to idea find a target niche pick something easy solve one problem
8. taking off scope out the competition create a skeleton app post a teaser page
9. build what they need beta testing use the feedback be willing to change
10. when to stop minimum functionality don't get sidetracked courage, mates
11. design pretty sells an investment coders that design?
12. <gasp> deployment </gasp> VPS vs. shared Apache proxying Mongrel Phusion Passenger Capistrano, baby
13. mar-ki-teeng newsletters let others spam for you speaking for fun and profit Google AdWords
14. maintenance customer support minor enhancements massive upgrades
15. measuring dashboard how many upgrade? support requests performance
16. the buck starts here revenue potential? stop trading time for money multiple sources
17. how, again? set some goals stake out some land work, work, rest relax... it's only ones and zeros
18. more... teascript.com gettingreal.37signals.com tinyurl.com/dmvl6f
19. questions? comments? pithy quotes? Matthew Bass matthewbass.com pelargir@gmail.com