> По ссылке — унылые сопли человека, который, возможно, неплохой разработчик,
> но полный ноль в маркетинге.

Саш, маркетинг вида "а ну жрать, что мы решили" -- долго-, если не сразу краткосрочно, провальная стратегия.  Вон ab@ терпел-терпел и свалил с GNOME3 из-за Caps Lock недели за две или три.

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#1 – Being inflexible and not actively seeking or using customer feedback

Ignoring your users is a tried and true way to fail.  Yes that sounds obvious but this was the #1 reason given for failure amongst the 32 startup failure post-mortems we analyzed.  Tunnel vision and not gathering user feedback are fatal flaws for most startups.  For instance, ecrowds, a web content management system company, said that “ We spent way too much time building it for ourselves and not getting feedback from prospects — it’s easy to get tunnel vision. I’d recommend not going more than two or three months from the initial start to getting in the hands of prospects that are truly objective.”
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