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Profit

There’s a meme on the internet of the business plan that looks like:

1. Build X
2. ???
3. Profit.

Basically, it’s the business plan for if you have something cool but no idea how to make money from it. You can replace step 1 with just about anything. You can’t, however, do this (as I saw someone do at Google recently):

1. Charge users for X.
2. ???
3. Profit

I decided not to point this out.

August 14, 2008  

2 comments

1 Chris { 08.15.08 at 7:47 am }

Are you familiar with the South Park episode that (I believe) originated that idea/joke? It’s the one with the Underpants gnomes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underpants_gnomes
It’s hilarious. It would seem your coworker missed the point a bit, though.

2 Matt { 08.16.08 at 9:14 pm }

Hah, I didn’t know it came from there, I’ll have to see if my roommate has that episode.

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