The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less

Patrick Mc-Kenzie, a writer, entrepreneur, and software business expert who is best known for a 2012 post on salary negotiation

If your product costs $10 a month, like Gumroad’s, you need two hundred customers.

become a pillar in a community,

For every group with a shared interest, there’s a Facebook group, a Reddit community, a Twitter or Instagram hashtag, or some other form of gathering and sharing ideas on the web. There are often several. Join them all.

Do introduce vesting so that each of you earns your stock over several years.

Networks and audience are really important for the minimalist entrepreneur,

If I talk, who listens? Where and with whom do I already spend my time, online and offline? In what situations am I most authentically myself?

Being a member of a community is a start, but the real magic happens when you start to contribute.

What’s more, if you go further and create by showing what you’re working on, teaching what you’re learning, and bringing new material to your community,