http://thecaffeinateddesignstudio.com/lessons-learned-from-a-failed-business-part-one/ Brand harmony for kickass world-changers. Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:41:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://thecaffeinateddesignstudio.com/lessons-learned-from-a-failed-business-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Lessons Learned From A Failed Business: Part Two, Waiting Until We Launched To Decide Our Target Market Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:26:32 +0000 http://thecaffeinateddesignstudio.com/lessons-learned-from-a-failed-business-part-one/#comment-41 [...] In this series, I have been discussing the lessons I learned from being in a failed business. This is part two; read part one here. [...] [...] In this series, I have been discussing the lessons I learned from being in a failed business. This is part two; read part one here. [...]

]]> http://thecaffeinateddesignstudio.com/lessons-learned-from-a-failed-business-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Rick Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:05:56 +0000 http://thecaffeinateddesignstudio.com/lessons-learned-from-a-failed-business-part-one/#comment-10 Whether or not you can pull it off initially is an interesting question, but I don't think there's any debate that having a business model that's self-funding from the outset is a very, very good idea. The notion of getting going with very very small expenditures and a small but steady & growing income stream seems to be gaining a lot of traction over the notion of racking up a ton of debt and jumping off a cliff -- f'rex, Paul Graham's <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html" rel="nofollow">post on "ramen-profitability"</a>. Whether or not you can pull it off initially is an interesting question, but I don’t think there’s any debate that having a business model that’s self-funding from the outset is a very, very good idea. The notion of getting going with very very small expenditures and a small but steady & growing income stream seems to be gaining a lot of traction over the notion of racking up a ton of debt and jumping off a cliff — f’rex, Paul Graham’s post on “ramen-profitability”.

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