I want to recommend a book, for anyone who is thinking about starting a software company.

The book is called Micro-ISV, from vision to reality.

Most of the information is very useful whether you are setting a web service company or a desktop software company. It has some technical bits (how should you design the page, how to approach sales or marketing, how to do bug tracking, etc.) but the best parts are interviews with people who already started their own company. The author talks to all sorts of people - co-founders of succesful companies, and people who have just started. There are also interviews with people from Google, Microsoft and other companies that can help you with your business and marketing ventures.
It gives a lot of motivation - which is something that is really required when you work these long hours alone at your product.

Hello,

This is the first post on the Metalgrass blog.
So what’s it gonna be about?

It’s gonna be a business blog. Mainly, of course, about our Software products. And also about our web site network. Google AdSense will probably be featured quite heavily, as we use it ourselves in our site network, and also because of our main product, AdSenseLog which helps you maximize your profit from your AdSense account.

One promise I make - no cats (It’s not that I don’t like them - but I’m allergic, you see).