The best advice I can give to newbie indie developers (this might apply also in general) is: try to collaborate. Try to create and mantain good relationship with other indie developers.
Too many times I’ve heard some people “I don’t trust that one” and so on. This is really stupid, expecially when you’re starting. Fun because those same people refuse maybe to do a links exchange, to make a game together, to allow some other developer to port his game to a different platform (Mac, PocketPC) and maybe THEN they accept 20% royalties from unknown publishers or give retail licensing rights to the 1st distributor that ask them…
The other fellow developers are much more likely to be honest like you: they’re person, not corporations… 😉