Successful Companies

Excerpt from Commentary on Tech Crunch, Don’t Blow Your Beta:

>Successful companies are based on reaching people who are in pain and making their lives better.

So find some people who are suffering needlessly, come up with a brilliant way to (a) cheaply reach a lot of them and (b) cheaply make their week a little easier.

Then execute your plan. That’s a business. Forget about Betas, Web 2.0, yellow fade, eyeballs, alexa and all that. It’s a distraction. The point is to make money. […]

— Chris Marstall