Archive for July 2009
Two Years
Ramen Profitability
Ramen profitable means a startup makes just enough to pay the founders’ living expenses.
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At any given time there tends to be one problem that’s the most urgent for a startup. This is what you think about as you fall asleep at night and when you take a shower in the morning. And when you start raising money, that becomes the problem you think about. You only take one shower in the morning, and if you’re thinking about investors during it, then you’re not thinking about the product.
I’m assuming that most techy, start-uppy, people have read Graham’s essays, but if not you need to.
Intentional Misleading Interfaces Result in Eventual Mistrust
How does deceiving your customers on newsletter signups make business sense? And it was checked by default. And what the hell is Fandango FanMail.
“Something intrinsically worthwhile”
“In time, success will come. And if it doesn’t, at least you’ll have spent your time doing something intrinsically worthwhile.”
-Eric Ries
If your project/idea/business flops, was your time wasted? Did it help anybody? Did you learn something new? That seems like a pretty good measuring stick for work worth doing.
Running a software biz
I just found this great blog by Eric Sink. You’ll love it if you’re an indie developer trying to live the dream. BTW he calls us ISV’s (small independent software vendor).
“The ‘No Sales Guy’ Approach… Listen to your customers and give them what they want. Keep your customers happy (they’ll tell all their friends how great you are).”
Update: I probably should have just linked to his index of articles titled Marketing for Geeks.
“Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.”
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