Every day I scout the Internet and read a lot of stuff about start-ups and entrepreneurship. Most of it is of course total crap. Reading about start-ups doesn’t help the entrepreneur in the same way talking about being creative will not make you be creative..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8165262.stm
I was reading on Jussi Laakkonen’s blog about “Customer development or why 9/10 startups fail”. I think the bottom line the post makes is that the difference between a successful startup and a failed one is that the successful ones get out of the office and talk to the customers. I think that is a very important idea and I hope to keep it in mind.
http://jussilaakkonen.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/customer-development-or-why-910-startups-fail/
“Yes, according to Robert Hendershott, a professor of private equity and entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.”
“Take the Apple App Store, for instance. In a few weeks, developers can easily build an application, submit it to the store and immediately find out whether it has any traction. “They can vet the idea in the marketplace”
from http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/do-web-entrepreneurs-still-need-venture-capitalists/
One of the reasons I don’t use seesmic is because there is no interesting people there. Can you prove me wrong?
How about starting a site where invited entrepreneurs hang out and post video content?
Probably a dumb idea..
Is it hard to start a company you love and that makes money? Just follow your heart, he knows what is wrong and right. You don’t.
There is intersection between software that is interesting to write and that gets you money.