How To Demo Your Startup (Part Two)

How To Demo Your Startup (Part Two).

Posted on September 2, 2008 at 3:05 pm by Dhananjay Nene · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Startup Lessons Learned — Take it with a grain of salt

Another startup lessons learnt essay.
Untitled – Startup Lessons Learned — Take it with a grain of salt.
Summary (for a much more detailed article, follow the link) :

You can’t afford to have a religion.
Communication
Agile development, actually.
Distributed Development isn’t such a great idea…
Don’t file expensive patents when you are pre-seed.
Attention to Detail
Release Early, Release Often
Fire Fast
Highs [...]

Posted on September 1, 2008 at 1:57 pm by Dhananjay Nene · Permalink · Comments Closed
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iPhone-app price deflation

iPhone-app price deflation
Hmm ! If the real hurdle is getting customers to pay at all, and if the $5 – $50 is an inelastic band, does it make sense to bring down the application prices. Also bringing down the prices may make it difficult to earn a decent income for an individual from iPhone apps.

Posted on August 19, 2008 at 9:57 am by Dhananjay Nene · Permalink · Comments Closed
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David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 | Omnisio

David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 | Omnisio
Really great presentation – DHH, creator of the ROR framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.

Posted on August 12, 2008 at 2:33 am by Dhananjay Nene · Permalink · Comments Closed
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Michael Nielsen » Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails

Michael Nielsen » Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails
Shirky’s Law states that the social software most likely to succeed has “a brutally simple mental model … that’s shared by all users”. ….. You can give friends a simple and compelling explanation of these sites in seconds …. The great majority [...]

Posted on July 24, 2008 at 2:04 pm by Dhananjay Nene · Permalink · Comments Closed
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A community manager should be one of the first hires – right after a solid engineering group and before you invest in corporate marketing people.

“A community manager should be one of the first hires – right after a solid engineering group and before you invest in corporate marketing people.”
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Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers? – ReadWriteWeb
I don’t quite subscribe to this .. but just couldn’t resisting adding this simply cos I know this will get the goat of many [...]

Posted on July 16, 2008 at 9:03 am by Dhananjay Nene · Permalink · Comments Closed
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