First startup almost there. The road hasn't even been that rocky. I agree with jacquesm about keeping it simple & foregoing the pipe dream of huge growth and an

First startup almost there. The road hasn't even been that rocky. I agree with jacquesm about keeping it simple & foregoing the pipe dream of huge growth and an IPO. To which I'd add: Solve a business problem. Charge businesses money for it. The friends I've seen fail with 'startups' had no true value built in, and no capturing that value (e.g. not charging for it). Or they were trying to sell vague services to a vague audience, who they didn't understand. (Namely: consumers, who pay for very little on the web, without understanding & compensating for that fact with what they chose to build.)