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All of the stuff said here re: building a product and working for a startup is awesome advice. There's one major thing missing: Learn how to acquire customers
by jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
All of the stuff said here re: building a product and working for a startup is awesome advice. There's one major thing missing: Learn how to acquire customers and retain them. You can build a great product, but if you don't know how to acquire customers, it's a disservice to the great product you built. CREAM- Customers Rule Everything Around Me.
- ericabiz 16y agoStrongly agree with this. Also, it's worth noting that many people consider "startup"=creating a consumer-focused company with millions of users (i.e. Twitter; Yelp.) Often the most successful businesses focus on selling a lot to a little. There is a ton of opportunity on the enterprise side of the world. My company was most successful after we stopped offering small accounts and focused on the customers paying us hundreds or thousands of dollars a month. We got pretty quickly to 7 figures after that.