When building a business: add value as much as you can, give your customers an
incredible experience with your company & brand, be sincere in your marketing
efforts and authentic about earning a profit off of their willingness to spend
money with you.
I wanted to elaborate on my thoughts about creating a business model by firstly
solving a problem for yourself
[http://adiirockstar.com/post/634469136/the-idea-for-selling-our-own-software-really-came]
. Whilst this is an incredible way of building a business, there’s a few
thoughts that I’d like to share on the matter:
* If
I wanted to elaborate on my thoughts about creating a business model by firstly
solving a problem for yourself
[http://adiirockstar.com/post/634469136/the-idea-for-selling-our-own-software-really-came]
. Whilst this is an incredible way of building a business, there’s a few
thoughts that I’d like to share on the matter:
* If
I know this is something that many VC’s & startup founders have spoken about,
but Campaign Monitor’s story again highlights that if you’re building something
to solve a problem that you have, you are most likely also solving a problem
that others may have.
WooThemes - for example
This is my presentation - Lessons Learnt From WooThemes - at NetProphet
[http://www.netprophet.org.za/2010/05/net-prophet-2010-adriaan-pienaar/].
You can also see my slides from the presentation over here
[http://www.slideshare.net/adii/lessons-learnt-from-woothemes].
startupquote [http://startupquote.com/post/604060576]:
> Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
- Drew Houston
Hopefully my “once” was WooThemes [http://woothemes.com]. :)
Doing some research work on “designing a user experience” and stumbled onto this
amazing TED talk by Don Norman. Do watch “The Three Ways That Good Design Makes
You Happy”.
I felt so inspired by this post and specifically loved this bit:
> These business models will leverage thepassion
[http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2009/11/pursuing-passion.html]
of individuals, createnetworks
[http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2010/02/shifting-identities-from-consumer-to-networked-creator.html]
and build communities
[http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/
The world would probably be a better place if all employees had this attitude
towards their work, but instead the world is riddled with people who absolutely
hate their jobs and just-just manages to contribute the minimum of which is
expected of them.