When a company starts its corporate presentation with its ’secondary’ business; when a company hints that this secondary business may soon grow past its historical, primary business; then maybe it’s time for the secondary business to become the main business…
From: GigaOm
In a paradoxical effort to further summarize the previous list of success tips while extending it, I came to the conclusion EVERYTHING can be summarized in one and only one word. Too bad, it’s a Japanese word (how snobbish!), so if we translate it in English, it’s 2 words. Still, 2 words is not too bad. Heck, it’s even shorter than a Seth Godin book!
The Japanese word is Kaizen, and it English translation is ‘Continuous Improvement’ (literally, ‘Change for Good’)
While the terms often refers to a continuous improvement in productivity, we must take it in a broader sense.
Continuously improving your product, so even if you start with something really crappy, it will eventually become a masterpiece.
Continuously improving your product, so you launch often, with small updates
Continuously improving your business, so that requires using metrics to ensure you’re heading in the right direction.
Spending lavishly does not continuously improve what you do, so do not overspend.
Spending time raising money does not continuously improve what you do either, so forget it. Just kidding on this one, but still… Slideware and business plans are not the path towards enlightenment, whatever the font.
Continuously improving your recruitment, so the % of bozos will tend toward zero.
Continuously improving, as it ‘yes, it requires efforts’. So be prepared.
Continuously improving, as in ‘the goal is in the failure, not success’. Ok, maybe if you can get yourself a yacht in the process, it’s worth delaying the learning a bit.
Continuously improving, as in ‘do not write long posts’.
There’s tons of list of ‘things to focus on’ to be successful.
but this one is really excellent (well, it seems excellent, we’ll try and let you know!):
http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
And because I’m all for brevity, here’s my condensed version:
1) Deliver to your users. Bring something valuable to them, listen to them, serve them well.
2) Adapt constantly. Launch often, accept to change your initial ideas, test and measure.
3) Keep it lean. Don’t over spend, don’t over engineer. You know what’s great about being ‘good enough’? Well, it’s that it’s good enough…
4) Monitor goals. Pick up meaningful metrics, and mind them constantly. They are the only objective and quantitative measures of your success, so do really focus on them.
5) Don’t give up. Success is always slower to come than expected. Bad news happen. Investors or journalist may not ‘get it’. Deals will fall through. Just go on.
Since yesterday, we are now posting the list of available items on VALU VALU to Google Base. This gives extra exposition to potential buyers, and we can already see incoming visits from the searches of a peculiar game.
Best of all: sellers have absolutely nothing to do, we aggregate everyone’s listing and voilà! Unlike many other sites, we do not have to ask the sellers to push for themselves.
Because VALU VALU is all about standard goods, and because items for sale are always related to standard product data controlled by us, we have a much lesser risk of rogue items which would block the entire push.
Yesss…. VALU VALU is now publicly launched!
Now, could you please tell EVERYBODY around you about VALU VALU?
Including your friends (yes, all of them!), your boss, your accountant, you baby-sitter, your psychoanalyst, your kids, your parents, your cousins?
You can
click here to share the love by the way…
“That’s the trick with revolutions, bro, you need an awful lot of people” – Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
Today is a sad day (at least in the history of gaming).
Flight Simulator had longest lifespan of all video games, dating back from 1982. Its cutting edge graphics, incredible sophistication and overwhelming dullness made it quite a league on its own…
Alas, the Flight Simulator crew was not spared from Microsoft’ recent ‘back-to-reality’ job cutting.
For ‘FS’, it’s game over…
US man wants value of kidney in divorce settlement
Dr. Richard Batista gave one of his kidneys to his wife in 2001, then divorced from her in 2005. No he wants some of his body back, or at least monetary compensation.
Could you imagine a kidney would cost as much as $1.5M ???
Still, I wonder if there’s a future in the dynamic pricing of body parts…
“For sale, genius brain of one VALU VALU founder, $99M. Ok, now at $17.99″
[ from an old New York Times article ]
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