author, The Single Founder Handbook $39 https://www.singlefounderhandbook.com/ (solopreneur) (more)

Micro ISV http://www.softwarebyrob.com/ (more)

Scale your B2B SaaS without selling out or standing still. At TinySeed, independent SaaS businesses get the funding, community, and support they need to grow. smallish funding for bootstrappers, founded by Rob Walling. https://tinyseed.com/ (more)

TinySeed raises $25 million to back more bootstrapped startups. (more)

Paid Site community for Micropreneurs. (Renamed to FounderCafe? http://www.micropreneur.com/ (more)

way to identify potential customers and get them into your Sales Funnel (more)

aka Customer Forces - motivations pushing/pulling customer (or other decision-maker) between current-state (status quo) and possible-post-purchase/decision-state. (more)

Ash Maurya's 3-Act Customer Forces Story MadLib (more)

see MadLibs (more)

a market test where you have an offer/purchase page online (via splash page) that measures interest with "coming soon" response; see also Demo, Sell, Build.

Ash Maurya: The Backstory Behind Customer Forces Stories. Good customer / problem discovery is key to achieving problem/solution fit. (more)

Find Better Problems Worth Solving with the Customer Forces Canvas. The search for Problem/Solution fit starts with creating a model - specifically a business model using a Lean Canvas. This is really an update to (2017-08-17) Maurya The Updated Problem Interview Script, and A New Canvas. (more)

Ash Maurya: The 30-Minute Customer Discovery That Beats 50 Interviews. Meet Steve. He spent 3 months running customer interviews for his VR platform idea. 50 interviews later, he was more confused than when he started. (more)

Urban Design writer, MacArthur Grant winner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Davis_(scholar) (more)

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster is a 1998 book by historian and urban theorist Mike Davis examining how contemporary Los Angeles is portrayed in the popular media.[1][2][3][4] The book investigates the relationship between natural disasters and social injustices in Southern California. The author explores the history of urbanization in the area and how it has disregarded environmental common sense. The book also examines the intersection between social issues and the perception of natural disorder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecology_of_Fear (more)

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles is a 1990 book by American author Mike Davis proposing a theory that contemporary Los Angeles has been shaped by different powerful forces in its history.... explores how different groups wielded power in different ways: the downtown Protestant elite, led by the Chandler family of the Los Angeles Times; the new elite of the Jewish Westside; the surprisingly powerful homeowner groups; the Los Angeles Police Department. He covers the Irish leadership of the Catholic Church and its friction with the numerically dominant Latino element. The book concludes at what Davis calls the "junkyard of dreams," the former steel town of Fontana, east of LA, a victim of de-industrialization and decay. The second edition of the book, published in 2006, contains a new preface detailing changes in Los Angeles since City of Quartz was first published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Quartz (more)

a city (Urban) grown out of Suburb expansion (more)

Urban Design critic http://www.joelkotkin.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Kotkin (more)

maybe the next war-inducing resource after Cheap Oil? (Water War) (more)

Ash Maurya: The Art of the Demo. Thinking you need a working product (or prototype) to make a sale is a common myth in the product world. (more)