So, on Tuesday I was indeed a highly effective human being (we'll say nothing about yesterday). I spent the morning with a client kicking off a very cool web development project (I'll link to the end result when the project is complete) and I think they liked our ideas on what we could do for them.
Then I cleared all my customer enquiries for my main service, First Tutors. First Tutors is the UK's largest site linking parents to tutors and vice-versa. If any of my customers happen to be reading - tell me what you think, always looking to improve...
In the evening, I attended the Enterprise Tuesday networking event and lecture. Phil O'Donovan (aka co-founder of CSR) lectured about fundamentals in starting up and reminded me of some things you know but can lose sight of. Eg, get the product out the door before some other bugger beats you to it (he put it more delicately) so that you get market share.
Personally, I think this is a judgement call. There is such a thing as shipping the product too early - look at the backlash against 'beta' web products at the moment, which aren't actually beta. They're just broken or offer a crappy user experience.
But on the other hand, no point building the perfect product if someone else's solves the problem adequately before you and everyone goes there - and let's remember, the web is a critical mass game. So O'Donovan's was a point well made. It will help me in creating my plan (which ahem, I haven't started yet...)
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