Start Small and Listen is web developer, speaker, and writer Rachel Andrew‘s advice in Smashing Magazine. No matter how many articles I have read on business, I find one more that protects me from another bad idea. This one is on building successful products. She means moneymaking products, and that I haven’t mastered but I still want people to read what I write. A nice article.

Building a Successful Product: Start Small and Listen

“The goal of a startup is to find the sweet-spot where minimum product and viable product meet — get people to fall in love with you. Over time, you listen to your customers, make improvements and raise the bar on what viable means — making it more expensive for competitors to jump in.”
– John Radoff, Entrepreneur, author, and game designer

If You Don’t Have a Million Dollars

Environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author, Paul Hawkin author of Growing a Business has similar advice: “If  you don’t have a million dollars, you can lose a million dollars.”