Why it's often good to start small

[gabeb1920]

Derek Sivers' latest blog article just came through my feed and it really hit home to me given my lack of confidence with starting a SaaS business as I talked about here.

Here's a link to Derek's blog post.
https://sivers.org/asking

Basically he describes starting as small as possible just helping one person with one small problem.

Then you can gradually help other people with the same problem thus proving that there is a business need.

Over time you will be able to help more and more people with more and more problems and that is one way (a pretty appealing one at that) of starting a profitable business.

 

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[AgainstAllOdds]

Good post. Here's the youtube video for those of you that don't want to click through:

 

[Andy Black]

Derek Sivers' latest blog article just came through my feed and it really hit home to me given my lack of confidence with starting a SaaS business as I talked about here.

Here's a link to Derek's blog post.
https://sivers.org/asking

Basically he describes starting as small as possible just helping one person with one small problem.

Then you can gradually help other people with the same problem thus proving that there is a business need.

Over time you will be able to help more and more people with more and more problems and that is one way (a pretty appealing one at that) of starting a profitable business.

100%. It's exactly how I got started.

Check out the first link in my signature.

And here's a couple of related videos I did on this:

 

[happycoder]

Derek Sivers' latest blog article just came through my feed and it really hit home to me given my lack of confidence with starting a SaaS business as I talked about here.

Here's a link to Derek's blog post.
https://sivers.org/asking

Basically he describes starting as small as possible just helping one person with one small problem.

Then you can gradually help other people with the same problem thus proving that there is a business need.

Over time you will be able to help more and more people with more and more problems and that is one way (a pretty appealing one at that) of starting a profitable business.

This is such a timely read. And @Andy Black your videos are gold.

 

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