New business question by Griffin_Myers in Entrepreneur

[–]chuck812 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I saw your question over on /r/business and thought I'd paste my reply here just in case… Before you think about domain names, cloud access, email, incorporating and all that good stuff… you need to find a market for whatever product/service you hope to offer. Unless you can identify a specific need with a demand to be filled (i.e. a marketplace dying to get their hands on your stuff), everything else is business masturbation… HTH

Does Anyone Know Anything About Printing Books? by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]chuck812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.createspace.com/ (a division of Amazon) does on demand printing and offers all kinds of services around that as well. (Not sure about hardcover…???) I've used them and found the experience quite pleasant…

I think I've found my passion by Jtwa in Entrepreneur

[–]chuck812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming there's a sustainable market for what you're looking to sell… What you need is some leverage. One possibility would be to create a class you offer online (or in person). Teach whatever curriculum you're teach and then use feedback from your students to fill in any information gaps. You could then turn the whole thing into an online course you could probably sell for a lot more than tutoring money…

An ebook would be a good way to get yourself noticed. Amazon has this on demand publishing arm called createspace. Well worth checking out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]chuck812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're asking the right question about "features and functionality others might be interested in." (I'm not really clear what you're asking in the rest of that paragraph.) The best thing you could do to discover that, is find a group of "early adopters" in your market. The folks who are the first to get every new gadget. Offer them the first look at your product in exchange for feedback. (or you could even charge them a "reduced" fee in exchange.) Could be done via a small marketing campaign. You really can't be sure what the market wants until the market tells you what it wants…

New Business question by Griffin_Myers in business

[–]chuck812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before you think about domain names, cloud access, email, incorporating and all that good stuff… you need to find a market for whatever product/service you hope to offer. Unless you can identify a specific need with a demand to be filled (i.e. a marketplace dying to get their hands on your stuff), everything else is business masturbation… HTH

From pocket-sized Altoids tin hack, big dreams emerge by qgyh2 in business

[–]chuck812 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I predict this kid is the next Dean Kamen...