Welcome

Welcome to the Business of Software Conference wiki.

Business of Software 2009

BoS 2009 was held in San Francisco, November 9th - 11th 2009. If you came to the conference, hopefully you'll post notes on the sessions up here.

Geoff Moore on Succeeding in turbulent times

Paul Graham on Trends for the future

Heidi Roizen on 10 things I wish I'd known about VC when I was an entrepreneur

Dharmesh Shah on Lessons learned

Mat Clayton on Social media: the good, the bad and the ugly

Don Norman on Ten rules for successful products

Ryan Carson on How to give your company soul

Paul Kenny on Telling stories

Chris Capossela on Marketing flops to blockbusters

Neil Davidson on How many kittens is an iPod worth?

Kathy Sierra on Creating passionate users

Jennifer Aaker on Beyond crack cocaine: 9 weird ideas on happiness

Michael Lopp on Talk shit, delegate and know what you want

Luke Hohmann on Innovation games: creating breakthrough products through collaborative play

Joel Spolsky on Jam and coffee: resolving the conflict between power and simplicity

There are more write-ups on people's blogs

There is a photo group on Flickr

Business of Software 2008 

Business of Software 2008 (the first ever Joel on Software Conference) was held in Boston on September 3rd - 4th 2008. If you came to the conference, hopefully you'll post notes on the sessions up here.

There are videos embedded in the individual pages, or you can see them at http://network.businessofsoftware.org/video.

Sessions at Business of Software 2008

Seth Godin on Why marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department

Jason Fried

Eric Sink on Product parenting

Pecha Kucha presentations

Dharmesh Shah on Software insights from MIT: two years of graduate school, boiled down

Jessica Livingston on Founders at work

Paul Kenny on Sales 101

Steve Johnson on The strategic role of product management

Tom Jennings on Why everything you've ever heard about venture capital is wrong

Richard Stallman on The danger of software patents

Noam Wasserman on Rich vs king: the founder's dilemma

Mike Milinkovich on A practitioner's guide to software ecosystems

Steve Krug on The least you can do about (tm) usability

Joel Spolsky on iPod or Zune - which are you building

There are more write-ups on people's blogs