Technical people are typically not very good at business. They always want to fix some hard problem or create some wonderful thing, and then magically "word-of-mouth" will make everyone come buy their stuff. Somehow they think that business is not an area of expertise, that requires study and learning.
If you want to make money at software, I suggest that you go learn from the small subset of technical people that actually do it. A great place to start is the podcast "startupsfortherestofus". They focus on the start small - stay small strategy that works for them. This strategy has smaller potential gains, but has a much higher chance of success, as opposed to the "startups" that you hear about in the news, that have terrific potential, and almost no chance (statistically) of making it. There are lots of other great sources if you look around. Save yourself a lot of lost time and resources by learning first, then doing. I suggest that you start with some of the episodes that deal with getting started, including building a mailing list to test your idea and market (before you build anything). I have already made many of the mistakes that they can help you avoid. I wish I had had access to this info 10 years ago. Best wishes James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
