by jordicabot | Sep 13, 2011 | business model, product development, stories entrepreneur
Some months ago a colleague asked me how much FastSpring was taking from each sale I was making. The answer? I had no idea. Sure, I should know this but the truth is that when you are not making any money (as I was at the time) it doesn’t really matter the...
by jordicabot | Aug 16, 2011 | business model, customers, stories entrepreneur
Freelance job sites are a very good way to test if there is a market for your product (see also my answer on this in the business of software forum) and even to get some clients. However, what surprises me most from these sites is the low hourly rates many customers...
by jordicabot | Jul 17, 2011 | business model, marketing, product development, stories entrepreneur
A good marketing strategy may multiply your clients by 10 or more, but any quantity multiplied by zero is still zero!. This means that if, after a reasonable amount of time, you have absolutely no customers for your product, maybe the problem is not the marketing of...
by jordicabot | Apr 26, 2011 | business model, stories entrepreneur
I believe in the KISS principle and, specially, in the limited feature set approach for software products but my limited imagination would never have thought that a restaurant with a single menu option could be successful. But clearly, L’Entrecôte (see also...