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The Niche is Your Friend

Monday, April 12th, 2010

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Purple Cow When someone imagines a business idea that launches a startup, many times it’s a “big play” – which means it’s a large idea that will need many people to build, and will likely serve a huge market.  Such ideas cost a lot of money.  And you’ll either need a lot of up-front invested capital or revenue on the first day to help fund it.  And you’ll need to have a certain amount of capacity built-in so that your site isn’t always down.

This is a common problem.  There are so many services that are trying to reach a percentage of the market, and the market is usually everyone in the world with a computer or a cell phone.  That’s a lot of people.

There is another option…

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