Now that I've turned from a full time digital nomad into a locked down home-ad, what changes have I noticed and what do I look forward to after things open up again?

Day 48 - April 25: Once you go entrepreneur, are you unemployable?

Apr 25th, 2020 7m 22s

A dissatisfaction about management decisions ultimately led me to Entrepreneurship. With the gained experience, would it still frustrate me as much or is it just a matter of finding the right role in a larger organisation?

Day 47 - April 24: Charge backs and disputes are just a part of doing business unfortunately

Apr 24th, 2020 4m 31s

I'm frustrated every time I get a dispute - which thankfully is rare - and I then figure out it wasn't a fraudulent transaction but rather just a customer to scared who could not be bothered to contact me beforehand. Unfortunately the system is

Day 46 - April 23: Are soft deletes impossible in times of enhanced privacy protection?

Apr 23rd, 2020 6m 9s

Soft deleting - so the act of setting a flag on a record that is becomes invisible to the user - instead of really deleting it (hard deleting) - is that still possible under current privacy legislation? IANAL - Just my point of view from experi

Day 45 - April 22: The dilemma: support privacy violating ad platforms to grow your business or not?

Apr 22nd, 2020 8m 4s

What is a entrepreneur do? Give in to the targeting and tracking options of big tech platforms to get new customers and contribute to the problem of privacy demise or go the ethical route but risk not succeeding with your business?

Day 44 - April 21: New Support Ticket titled POS - must be a request for Positively Outstanding Service, right?

Apr 21st, 2020 6m 3s

After getting an emotionally charge support ticket I go through my four step process: Research, Rectify, Explain and Close.

Day 43 - April 20: New Business Ideas for a Socially Distant World?

Apr 20th, 2020 5m 31s

How can we incorporate social distancing into entertaining activities? Drive-In Cinemas? Picnics in parks instead of Restaurants?

Day 42 - April 19: My first internship and the first faux pas in the first hour

Apr 19th, 2020 7m 14s

Tales about my first internship at Compaq and how within one hour I managed to insult a senior member of my department by mistake and what else I learned!

Day 41 - April 18: Attacking Developer Supply Chains

Apr 18th, 2020 5m 29s

Most developer use library database / package managers (NuGet, NPM, ...) for their projects and it's an overlooked attack vector in my opinion.

Day 40 - April 17: What Impostor Syndrome can teach Developers

Apr 17th, 2020 8m 29s

Some tips and tricks on dealing with imposter syndrome as a developer, why context matters and you should always be learning regardless of your seniority.

Day 39 - April 16: Energy comes in waves - How do I cope with my slower weeks or low energy days?

Apr 16th, 2020 5m 4s

Knowing yourself when it comes to energy and motivation is important. You don't want to let a slow day where you just can't get yourself to work on your business cause a vicious cycle of self-doubt. Sometimes the right solution is to simply sto

Day 38 - April 15: Refreshing my password security knowledge

Apr 15th, 2020 5m 6s

Quick recap of a talk by Joe Manico about password security which updated me on the best practices and some tips for bootstrappers implementing their security workflows.

Day 37 - April 14: Approaches to failure and their effect on entrepreneurship

Apr 14th, 2020 5m

Thinking about how different countries will react to the economic crisis after COVID I wonder what effects failure acceptance in each country will have for future economies.

Day 36 - April 13: The challenges of a daily podcast

Apr 13th, 2020 3m 4s

Quick talk about my thoughts around producing this podcasts, the challenges and what might change in future.

Day 35 - April 12: Microsoft's naming strategy is one of the worst in the industry

Apr 12th, 2020 8m 4s

About twice a week I have to explain to confused customers why their Office365 is not the right Office365 for use with my product. And I can't blame them. It's confusing. And Microsoft repeatedly makes the same mistake, again and again.

Day 34 - April 11: The Invoicing Maturity Scale - My personal wishlist

Apr 11th, 2020 5m 36s

Having just done my monthly accounting yesterday it got me thinking about the state of invoicing in 2020. Why isn't the process made more easy? Why are we still converting one accounting record into a PDF that's sent through email and then conv

Day 33 - April 10: Why I'm immensely grateful as a bootstrapped SaaS founder for having worked in IT security

Apr 10th, 2020 10m 11s

Just as I was adding a new little feature to Innovote I remembered how grateful I was for some IT security instincts I still had from my past working in a IT security company. A small feature that could easily have been used to send out a lot o

Day 32 - April 9: Be productive or not to be productive. It that really the question?

Apr 9th, 2020 6m 36s

An off the cuff episode about how hyperbolic messaging is forcing us into two distant extreme viewpoint camps and how that's not good for anyone. All using the example of productivity shaming in the current crisis.

Day 31 - April 8: Testing business ideas quickly with landing pages, faking processes and more

Apr 8th, 2020 6m 10s

In this episode it's more stories from past entrepreneurial projects, how I tested, answered questions and falsified hypotheses using only small amounts of development time.

Day 30 - April 7: Why boring tech is the right choice for bootstrappers!

Apr 7th, 2020 7m 53s

As a solo bootstrapped founder you already have so much risk involved in starting a business that you shouldn't take on technology risk. This applies especially to developer founders who are prone to shiny object syndrome and want to apply the

Day 29 - April 6: Another failure story: selling Austrian gift boxes to the USA

Apr 6th, 2020 11m 31s

Another of my failure stories on the entrepreneurial journey. Actually my first commercial project where I sold real products to real people for real money. And then gave up too early, made tons of mistakes and in the end still happy about doin

Day 28 - April 5: The frustrating state of website monitoring

Apr 5th, 2020 6m 33s

In an attempt to improve my website monitoring I made a list of tests I'd like to run on my public facing websites and audited my existing monitoring services to reveal I wasn't at the level of monitoring I'd like to be. Unfortunately some rese

Day 27 - April 4: That time I wanted to become a full time blogger

Apr 4th, 2020 6m 34s

After finishing work for my first company and finding myself with some time on my hand I decided to give full time blogging a go for a year. I started a technical blog around Microsoft Azure for Startup CTOs with in-depth articles when two mont