by jordicabot | Feb 23, 2012 | business model, stories entrepreneur
After reviewing the original business model of the Entrecot restaurant I’d like to write today about a second original business model: blog micro transactions. The idea is to write a blog post interesting enough so that people want to know more about the post...
by jordicabot | Feb 14, 2012 | business model, customers, philosophy, stories entrepreneur
When you have no clients (and you’ve been pushing the product long enough) is easy to realize that you better drop the product and go back to the drawing board. When you have many many clients, it’s a no brainer to go on (and become filthy rich 🙂 ) The...
by jordicabot | Jan 26, 2012 | business model, customers, stories entrepreneur
This is the second in a series of posts trying to explain what I think went wrong with my previous business attempt, that I end up giving up for free due to the lack of clients (the blog part is still fully alive and I do get some revenue from ads, but that’s...
by jordicabot | Dec 14, 2011 | business model, stories entrepreneur
The readers of this blog already know that my first attempt at becoming a micropreneur (selling online code-generation services from simple design models) failed. Now, some months after the decision to stop the first service, it´s time to reflect on why it/I failed....
by jordicabot | Nov 22, 2011 | business model, customers, stories entrepreneur
I was reading this morning a typical example of a software geek (in his own words) that spent years building a huge product that maybe nobody needs (or better said, that nobody would pay for). This is a classic mistake that I don’t really understand. Why would...
by jordicabot | Oct 10, 2011 | business model, customers, stories entrepreneur
In my business I’m frequently contacted by non-technical (prospective) clients that have no idea of how complex is their current site or what migration features they need. Therefore I need to invest my time in helping them understand their own needs, even to the...
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