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Re:Ask HN: Small market product vs Big market product, Which... by notahacker on Sunday March 06, 2011 @04:37PM (#2295092)
If you earn >$1 million per year in profit with the niche product, would you regret not going for the hypothetical millions more you might have earned with the consumer product?

(Of course, the need to part with equity for external investment and lower margins might mean a successful consumer product company ends up returning less cash to the founders than a much smaller bootstrapped b2b company anyway)

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Re:Ask HN: Small market product vs Big market product, Which... by JonathanWCurd on Sunday March 06, 2011 @06:03PM (#2295298)
The b2b product has a more defined route to revenue / profit but its market is capped. I wouldn't complain about >$1 million in profit but my personal goal is to make a bigger impact (doesn't have to be now, but if I wait will I squander my chance).
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