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If it's making more than it's costing him, and he's got time to be getting on with other stuff, he's doing pretty well in my book.
by regularfry 16y ago
If it's making more than it's costing him, and he's got time to be getting on with other stuff, he's doing pretty well in my book.
- rick888 16y ago"If it's making more than it's costing him, and he's got time to be getting on with other stuff, he's doing pretty well in my book." If I put up a random web page on a free hosting provider, slapped Adsense on there, and started making $1/month, it would also fit your definition. You set the bar on "pretty well" way too low. This is also the problem with a lot of startups (and why they end up failing).
- regularfry 16y agoPerhaps I should have added "and he can quit his day job" to the list. I you've hit on the point, though. Obviously I have a lower set of criteria for what makes something a "success" than you do; I don't believe something needs to actually take the exponential curve up to VC heaven to be worth doing and a commercial success - whether or not the business model could, in fact, support that.