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

It’s that simple – if you can find a small group of people and make them amazingly happy, you will make money. Would you rather sell your software to 100% of the people in a 5,000 person niche, or 10% of the people in a 50,000 person niche? The correct answer: 100% of the people in a 5,000 person niche.
Rob Walling • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
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Rob Walling • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
You shouldn’t plan to sell to a customer on their first visit
Rob Walling • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
The real statement here is that you should never find yourself killing time.
Rob Walling • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
The product with a sizable market and low competition wins even with bad marketing, a bad aesthetic, and poor functionality.
Rob Walling • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_occupations • http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.t01.htm
Rob Walling • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
podcasting until you’ve built an audience. You’ll find there is so much to learn about creating content that trying to do so in multiple formats will require too much of an up-front time investment.
Rob Walling • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
Pool cleaners hang out together; whether at local trade meetings, national conferences, or online. Having a handful of places where they congregate makes marketing much easier since you can simply attend (or sponsor) trade meetings or conferences. Alternatively, you can also hang-out (or buy ads) in any online venues where a concentration of your t
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