Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

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If you haven’t already, you will soon need to accept you are going to fail a lot. You will make bad decisions, waste time, waste money, run ineffective ads, miss deadlines, and release buggy code. Each time this happens, you have to accept that you failed and move on.

Once you have 5 releases under your belt, 1500 targeted visitors every month, a 500 prospect mailing list, and hundreds of incoming links…surprise! Things are easier. Much easier.

Realizing the differences between development and entrepreneurship is something that will benefit you in the long run as you pursue your dream of starting a company.

If you target a niche with a common interest, such as personal trainers or psychologists, providing ongoing content every 2-4 weeks is the best way to build a relationship. Think of your mailing list as a blog with a new post every 2-4 weeks (to gain SEO benefit from your newsletter content, you should also post it to your blog).

Then, the first person who signs up will receive the first email, then a two week gap, then the second email. And the 500th person who signs up a year down the line will receive the same first email, a two week gap, and the same second email. In this manner none of your content is wasted; you haven’t created throw-away emails early in your list, ev

Take this information and share relevant links with a small amount of commentary. These are the best kinds of posts – easy to write but containing a lot of value for your audience.

It isn’t apparent at first glance, but the time of day and day of the week you send your email will have a major impact on how many people open it.

you will begin to see that many sources of traffic do not convert at all. And you can stop pursuing that traffic and focus your efforts on methods that bring in sales.