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title: "Mark Fletcher’s Garage Philosophy for Startups"
date: 2006-05-18
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Mark Fletcher’s Garage Philosophy for Startups

[Mark Fletcher](https://web.archive.org/web/20110309152933/http://www.wingedpig.com/) in many ways embodies the successful Web startup entreprenuer, having created and sold two multi-million dollar companies – ONEList to Yahoo (via a merger with eGroups) and Bloglines to Ask Jeeves. [Niall Kennedy has notes](https://web.archive.org/web/20110309152933/http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/05/mark-fletcher-bloglines-onelist.html), audio and a transcript of a talk Fletcher recently did. This is pretty much required reading for budding 2.0 entrepreneurs. Here’s a sample:

“Garage Philosophy – Solve a Pain Point – Have Passion for the Idea – Be Cheap!! – Release Early/Release Often (3 Month Rule) – Doesn’t Have to be Perfect – Involve Your Users”

I wonder what Fletcher will build next, he seems to have a nose for what will be the Next Big Thing on the Web…

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mark_fletchers.php))*