Comments on: Launch a Business, Not a Side Project

By: MAK

MAK — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:15:35 +0000

thanks again for the post

By: MAK

MAK — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:13:10 +0000

Great post Ryan, and this type of post give us boost to work hard , recently i have launched my website http://www.letseatout.co.in and working hard from last few monts to bring it up…. keep writing ,

thanks

By: Vinu

Vinu — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:32:33 +0000

Good points. The stories of users discovering a great web app built as a side-project is rare in real-life I guess. You have to market the product, and work on that full time.

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By: Steven Wagner

Steven Wagner — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:35:49 +0000

Two key elements here: Selling and Marketing. Sales should always lead the marketing of the product. There is a great deal of talk about the advertising or marketing but what about the actual selling of the product.

Read Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore, it has great insight into what it takes to get your concept into paying hands. Far too often apps fail because there is no sound sales plan – who, what, where, when, why and how people are going to pay us for our app.

Then the marketing can back into the sales goals. Not the other way around.

And remember adding more features DOES NOT guarantee that you will sell more!

By: izle

izle — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:28:26 +0000

Surely market research is the key. I may well feel the my app plugs a whole in my digital life, saving me time and energy, and my friends may feel the same way, but if I'm going to spend the next few years dedicating all my resources to it, it had better be a time-saver for a much, much wider audience.

A lot of the web 2.0 failures seemed to miss sight of their target audience, focusing instead on great new features, APIs and so on.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:30:15 +0000

Plenty of huge successes were started as either hobbies or side jobs. The Wright brothers come to mind.

The difference between the winners and losers isn't whether or not something is a "side job;" it's how much effort they put into it. The Wright brothers, for example, were extremely innovative in how they approached their problem and the solutions to the mechanical testing required to make forward progress.

The bottom line with ANY enterprise is that there are far more failures than successes.

Plenty of great ideas have failed as full time endeavors as well! The speed and relative ease of starting a web business, by its nature, invites failure. The broader access to the tools and low initial capital outlay required compared to starting say a small retail shop lets people without a solid foundational knowledge of business get in the game.

Ultimately, your chances might be slightly better if all your attention is focused on one task. It is not, however, a pre-requisite for success and shouldn't deter great ideas and work ethic from being the next enterprise to take flight.

By: sohbet

sohbet — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:55:57 +0000

thanks admin good post