Don’t Worry About the 3 Percent
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Let’s face it. We want to make all our customers happy. More happy customers means more money and fewer complaints.
So what happens when you discover that a feature isn’t working properly in one obscure browser? If you’re like me, you let it go.
There are quite a few obscure browsers out there, and my obscure meaning that the percent of the overall users using them is very little: Opera, Konqueror, Seamonkey, SRWare Iron, K-Meleon, Lunascape, FlashPeak SlimBrowser, Songbird, Beonex, Camino, Galeon, Epiphany, Kazehakase, Avant Browser, Maxthon, and I’m sure the list continues. Even well known browsers (though older versions) fall into this category: Firefox 2, IE 5.5, etc.

As I mentioned a few months back in 
I don’t speak much about raising capital at Startup Next Door. For goodness’ sake, the tagline is “Venture without Capital”. But Wednesday night I spoke with a gentleman who had been involved in a few startups (most of them huge), and who has raised funds and is currently raising funds for another ambitious startup. In speaking with him about a business idea and how to raise funds, his advice was to create a story about what you are trying to accomplish, and a part of that story MUST involve making money. That old chestnut – the business model.