On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Erika L. Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > > With you guys as my witness ... I'll be a millionaire while I am 40. But it > won't be without the proper planning you've described.
I always figured that you'd be perennially 29 :) Good luck with expanding and getting yourself going bigger. I've had a couple of start up companies with varying levels of success and I've learned from the (greater number of) failures as much or more than the (far fewer) successes. I'd like to also reiterate what Cam mentioned: "But as they say - the battle plan is only good till the first shot is fired. " My first start up company had some great technology and we were doing small to medium-sized business focused, multi-tenant, turn key ecommerce shops...in 1998. It was great. We built the product on a shoe string, got a couple small companies in to prove the technology and then Yahoo buys some company and launches Yahoo Stores with a $50 million dollar marketing budget. Well, there went that market opportunity as we were in small town Oregon and not hooked up to VCs or anything. So we had to figure out how to take what we did and turn it into a business, which turned out to be partnering with businesses to establish vertical-niche communities around content management and ecommerce and leveraging their experience and contacts to work our way through those individual markets. We also failed at that, but more slowly and because we sucked at sales and marketing and never got the investment capital to hire the right people to make a real impact. Ah, stories from the dotcom trenches. Cheers, Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343861 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
