Vyrotek|Bridging the gap between code and wealth

I recently read a really interesting article written by Marc Andreessen. You can find the article here. He starts off by saying ”A startup’s initial business plan doesn’t matter that much, because it is very hard to determine up front exactly what combination of product and market will result in success.” And concludes with ”If Thomas Edison didn’t know what he had when he invented the phonograph while he thought he was trying to create better industrial equipment for telegraph operators…what are the odds that you — or any entrepreneur — is going to have it all figured out up front?” Intrigued? You should be! I thought it was a pretty good article.

That blog article reminded me of another one I read a while ago that can be found here. This second article goes over some similar ideas. He suggests that you probably wont get it right the first time so it’s probably not a good idea to develop a whole idea in stealth mode and then try to release it to the world. He suggets that you develop some of your project, let users play with it, listen to their feedback, make changes that will keep your users happy and then repeat the process. If you’re trying to provide some sort of service to users, then best thing you can do is listen to what the user wants. That sounds like some good advice to me.