Here’s a small list of 2009 New Year’s Resolutions for your startup.

### 1. Simplify

Anyone can make something complex. It takes thoughtful planning, consideration, and discipline to make something simple. Simple \= elegant. The same applies to your business.

### 2. Get some Humility

Don’t assume you know what your audience wants. Find out first.

### 3. Release a Real Product

10,000 great ideas are worthless if you never act upon them. Pick one. Pick three and mix. Release.

### 4. The Opposite is Also True

Your product can be enormously successful for a single feature. Someone else’s product will be even more successful for excluding that same feature.

### 5. Loose the Bulk

Startups [don’t need much](http://cdixon.tumblr.com/post/311546950/things-startups-do-and-dont-need). The more you spend, the less you earn. Keep things small. Keep things simple. You’ll thrive.