Eric Sink on the Business of Software is a selection of the best and most popular essays from the author's website. This insightful collection of essays explore the business concerns that programmers face during the course of their careersparticularly those programmers who are small independent software vendors.

Sink also covers issues like starting your own business, and then performing the hiring, marketing, and financesin a style that programmers understand, sprinkled with a touch of humor.

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Nice to read. Good advises. Specific for a type of bussiness software. - 2008-11-22
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As a software developer, i recommend this book, easy to read, simple, many good advises....

I only complain that the writer mainly talks about his specific field. He runs a software company specialized in tools for IDE's. Consequently, he only advises or see the bussiness software from the point of view of a company which sells software products to the market.

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Some common sense and some good advise - 2009-05-08
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If you like to read dead trees and you are interested in the Business of Software, than this book is a gook buy.

You'll find a lot of good advise, some common sense and some very interesting tips given by someone who actually create an ISV.

But if you enjoy reading weblog, well, the content of this book is mainly taken from Eric Sink blog (a very nice blog that you have to follow if you are interested in the Business of Software) and you'll find there a lot of the content you have here, including some classic like the micro-ISV one. What you loose are the intro comments that Mr Sink added to every chapter and some annotation.

My choice? bought the the dead tree version and read it cover-to-cover.

As valuable today as it was when it was first published! - 2009-05-08
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I'm a Windows-based software developer who has for years dreamt about starting my own software company. I picked up a copy of Eric's book and found it to be one of the best decisions I could make in regards to learning more about becoming an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). It's one of two books that I have actually read cover-to-cover without skipping a single page. Very well written.

The content/advice Eric provides is just as valuable today (2009) as it was in 2006 when the book was published. An excellent book for anyone considering starting their own software company. Very inspirational.

Must Read for a Chief Geek! - 2009-01-10
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This is a great book! A must read for any Geek interested in business, especially those interested in starting their own business. Eric's writing style is so honest and real. He doesn't "Sugar Coat" anything and isn't afraid to share his mistakes with the reader. Eric is honest, brave, and quite funny.

I love Eric's Suggestion to "Double Your Failure Rate."

Good read, inspirational but left me wanted for more ... - 2008-10-17
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I agreed with most readers here that the book is definitely worth a read. It gives a lot of good advise for anyone who wants to start a software business, particularly small ISV . Eric's companies Spyglass and SourceGear are very unique in their own right. But with so many software done online nowadays, I wish the book would address some of the Internet related business issues.

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