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Re:What skills are most crucial for running small internet c... by tyri_kai_psomi on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:53PM (#21588974)
> Building something is the easy bit.

Building something is certainly easy. Building something people want and works well is pretty hard. Unless you have the latter, all the sales and marketing won't do much for you unless you have an established legacy walled garden that people are forced to use.

Re:What skills are most crucial for running small internet c... by jbverschoor on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:04PM (#21589078)
News flash. That’s part of marketing. Not programming.

The past decades and even now, people tend to expect programmers to do everything related to tech.

This fairytale is why so many fail.

Re:What skills are most crucial for running small internet c... by rapind on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:04PM (#21589580)
I don't understand this claim.

Building something people want is marketing? Requirements gathering? Business analysis? Project management? Engineering? These are just subdivisions of marketing?

Re:What skills are most crucial for running small internet c... by sky_rw on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:19PM (#21589698)
Yes, actually. Academically marketing is defined by the general marketing mix of: Product, Pricing, Place, and Promotion. Product here relates to fully understanding the end users goals. You then need to design a product that meets those goals, and a brand which communicates to your user how those goals are met.

It's common place now for people to think of 'marketing' as 'advertising'. It is a much more robust subject than that. This is driven largely by the product management role being so closely integrated to the engineering flow. As I understand it, traditionally product management was a marketing department role. You can see this more with non-software companies like food or transportation.

Re:What skills are most crucial for running small internet c... by rapind on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @07:54PM (#21590405)
Interesting TIL. Definitely not how I perceive marketing though. I always saw it encompassing promotion and brand.
Re:What skills are most crucial for running small internet c... by RaceWon on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:24PM (#21589726)
> I don't understand this claim.

I'd say it is more accurate to characterize your points as a "marketing feasibility analysis". But this is as much my opinion based on my understanding of marketing, as it is actual "marketing of a product" per se.