Michael Lehman's Independent Innovation

Nearly twenty years ago I started a small company which was, at first, called MetaTech and then, after the threat of a lawsuit, changed to MT MicroSYSTEMS to build Pascal compilers.  The company was what we now would call a MicroISV and, if the Internet had been available, certainly would have been an Independent Innovation company.  In ...

If you're making a living (or wanting to) by distributing your bits over the Internet one of the first things you need to do, after you decide what you want to make, is pick the perfect name for your venture.  In the modern age it's more difficult than it used to be.  In the past you just had to come up with a great ...

On this site when I talk about the 'color' of bits I mean the type (art, music, text, code) of the digital IP that Independent Innovators distribute. However, in his post "What Colour are your bits?", Matthew Skala (blog home page) has a very interesting point to make about the 'colour' of bits by which he means the ...