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“A Business Model Takes Two Years.”

My mother, who in her day was a very successful technology consultant, always used to say that: It takes  a business at least two years to figure out what its model actually is. Two years of scrambling around, trying to find something that will actually stick long-term.

Now that the Purple Cow print party is over, I have to get back home to Texas and get to work on the next phase of gapingvoid i.e. getting the Cube Grenade idea up n’ running.

I’m guessing I’ve got at least two years of working my ass off to make that happen, and then some. Looks like Mom was right, YET AGAIN. Heh.

“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more…”

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Kait
Kait
15 years ago

Aren’t parents wonderful?

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Twenty Twenty
Twenty Twenty
15 years ago

Love your wisdom and yourhumor Hugh.

Sometimes, I can’t tell them apart.

Giggle.

Mr. Twenty Twenty

That guy who changed his name to the number of perfect vision, because you living your vision matters.

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M. David Green
M. David Green
15 years ago

Mother is always right. I learned that lesson early, and it has never failed me. The next two years should be an engaging and memorable battle. Remember that you are worth your breeding.

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[…] “a business model takes two years” | Gapingvoid It takes a busi­ness at least two years to figure out what its model actually is. Two years of scram­bling around, trying to find something that will actually stick long-term. […]

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Adam Bishop
Adam Bishop
15 years ago

I was a new reader to your blog Hugh but after the Henry V quote I’m here to stay. Reading that scene again I feel inspired to work harder Monday morning.

I have fond memories of a dinner party at which a friend’s 85 year old grandfather stood on his chair impromptu and began to recite that speech in it’s entirety, all as part of a story he was telling about WWII. I remember every detail and always will.

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Julie Poplawski
Julie Poplawski
15 years ago

Good to know it doesn’t happen by magic for anyone. Yet, two years feels like a Marathon since I’m madly in love with my plan…

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Serge Lescouarnec
Serge Lescouarnec
15 years ago

If an experienced guy like you takes 2 years to figure out his ‘Cube Grenade’ thread, I wonder how much longer it will take me to put together my ‘5 legged stool’ work toolkit.
The theory being that various pieces of work add to the whole and that if one leg breaks you don’t fall on your face.

Thinking out loud

Serge
‘The French Guy from New Jersey’

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Shelley Noble
Shelley Noble
15 years ago

Wait–you didn’t spring forth from the loins of Zeus?!

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Robin Brown Davis
Robin Brown Davis
15 years ago

Your words (once again) help soothe. Now I know, one year down, one more to go in my “Evil Plan”. Which is not so evil…. just trying to devise the perfect plan/model to help overworked artists make a living wholesaling their work.

I never realized there was a difference between a business plan and a business model until I went back to school this year…. which I know for sure I would not have done had I not listen to your audiobook at just the right time in my life.

Living in the sticks of Far West Texas, helps (makes?) us be more creative in the ways we do business. Right homeboy?

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