When we launched HubPages.com in August of 2006, the first few months of traffic were very small. But we managed some small successes and a few proof points that lead us to believe we could make the site work and be profitable. Today, HubPages is the 185th largest site on Quantcast with a proven revenue model.
Learning from my experience with HubPages, I’m always looking at the casuality of small successes and failures. Trying to understand them and piecing enough of them together to make decisions about the future. I personally believe that many successful companies come from small successes. Today, if you’re like many small tech companies looking to prove a business model. My suggestion is to start small and build on it.
It’s easy to continue when there are a series of small successes, but what happens when you see some failure? Do you totally scrap the idea? Or make some tweaks and move on. Have you or anyone you know experienced this?