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Re:The Software Millionaire Next Door by jacques_chester on Saturday January 05, 2013 @05:45AM (#5012277)
This helped catalyse a ranty blog post I've been meaning to write for a while: http://chester.id.au/2013/01/05/on-selling-to-consumers/

The tl;dr is that using Jobs, Gates et al as your business inspirations is just sample bias. Most of the money is in selling to businesses.

Re:The Software Millionaire Next Door by martinced on Saturday January 05, 2013 @10:39PM (#5015171)
"Most of the money is in selling to businesses"

It depends on what you call "businesses". Corporate is less than half of the economy worldwide and these typically have huge team in-house developing their own software or they're renting consultants from the big four.

But if you mean that PMEs, small mom&dad shop, independant workers etc. do "spend more money to make more money" than joe-six-pack who's only using the net for fun and not for work, then sure, there's more money there.

But to corporate? No way. It's a big niche. But it's a niche and it's very hard to get into.

It may have worked for you, but that's not where most of the money is.

Re:The Software Millionaire Next Door by flipp on Saturday January 05, 2013 @06:01AM (#5012292)
Oh no way.
Re:The Software Millionaire Next Door by swombat on Saturday January 05, 2013 @06:34AM (#5012337)
Oh yes way.
Re:The Software Millionaire Next Door by jacques_chester on Saturday January 05, 2013 @06:50AM (#5012362)
patio11's made our points. Just that he does it better.