Tweet Earlier this week one of our users posted a software project that I found particularly interesting. We all hate spam. The concept is to provide means from Outlook to generate temporary and unique e-mail addresses, just like one-time credit card numbers avoid exposing authentic credit card numbers when shopping online. What’s new is the [...]

Tweet FairSoftware’s blog has multiple authors. Our FairBlogs users, by definition, have multiple authors. Adding authors or writers to your blog is a great way to get a head start on all the other bloggers out there. But I’m not yet satisfied with how WordPress manages multiple authors. My wishlist: Scheduling: I need an easy [...]

Tweet A few years ago, a friend of mine founded a startup with a long-time colleague who was a great salesman. It turned out that the Web 2.0 business my friend was running didn’t actually require those sales skills and so after a few months he had to let this person go. That could have [...]

Tweet I’m excited to announce that we have a new member of the Fair Software team. Ricardo has agreed to work with us and will be helping to add features to our service and to make it easier to use. Ricardo and I worked together at a startup many years ago. Back then we used [...]

Tweet TechCrunch’s coverage of our new Fair Blogs has generated quite a bit of discussion on the best way to compensate a bloggers network. My Page, My Ads A popular view is that each blogger should be paid for the pages they write. Essentially, if you wrote the entry, the ads on that page are [...]

Tweet My worst memory of the first startup I co-founded? Writing the final check to the lawyer to close the company. It was in 2000, toward the end of the dot-com bubble. We had done everything by the book to start our company: each of the four co-founders wrote a $1,000 check and our lawyer [...]

Tweet In case you haven’t heard of us yet, FairSoftware is a startup that helps you start your own startup. This blog is dedicated to the entrepreneur in all of us. Below is our story. The Original Idea It’s been almost three years since I visited my friend Christophe in Paris for a casual chat [...]