This was a pretty good post. I would add that if you can't figure out how to beat out the competition and if you can't get much traction but already have a cod

This was a pretty good post. I would add that if you can't figure out how to beat out the competition and if you can't get much traction but already have a code base, you should make it free software. Release it under the AGPL or GPL. Might as well help everyone out ;)