[AccessD] Freelancing-one off

I have a product now that is one of those one hit wonders (excel adding).
It's just difficult to decide whether to sell it to individuals or
Microsoft. If the latter then I have to invest in protective patents which
may not be possible.

Well I can dream ...
On Sep 2, 2011 5:07 PM, "Mark Simms" <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote:
>> First; You will never make many money building one-off products for a
>> client. Building and marketing a product multiple times is much more
>> cost effective.
>
> Yet this is what has been required of me in all of my "stinkers".
>
> I once created an add-in type of product (over 12 years ago) and it was
> somewhat of a failure
> until I had one huge, multilicense sale that brought in a huge amount of
> revenue. Suddenly, it was successful !
> This is very similar to what had happened with Richard Branson when he
> started Virgin Records....
> It was failing and then he signed Phil Collins and Boy George.....and in
the
> end, he sold the company for
> 1 billion !!!
>
>
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