Nothing ventured, nothing gained

a blog by Marc Chung

What I learnt from my first startup

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by Marc Chung

From the business and startup part of the brain.

Summer of 2000, my friend and I started a web design company aimed at small to medium sized companies that wanted an internet presence. We did this right around the middle of my first year at college. We had good people, we didn’t spend too much money, but we didn’t make anything that people really wanted to use. I learnt, several ideas and startups later, that the last point I mentioned is typically the one you get wrong when you’re inexperienced.

Lesson learnt: Make something that people want.

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I'm Marc Chung, and you're reading Nothing ventured, Nothing gained, a blog about building beautiful software. I'm the founder of OpenRain Software, a web design and development company located in Arizona, where I make millions of users happy by building breathtaking software with brilliant people.

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