Fortune 5,000,000 Businesses

Jason Fried of 37 Signals has an interesting post in their corporate blog. It talks about developing about developing web applications for the "Side Business". He argues that instead of concentrating on Fortune 500 companies, it is better to watch out for the Fortune 5,000,000 small companies [1-10 people] worldwide and create applications which sheds every extra fat in their body. Simple, intutive and straight-forward applications are the need for the day than huge programs. I had a chance to look upon Microsoft Word in Office 2003, Jesus, that looks like some ERP application, where as, all it is going to deliver is to type letters & information. Read the blog post here