/var/log/tumbles » startups http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com Interesting gatherings from the web Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:15:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 How To Demo Your Startup (Part Two) http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/how-to-demo-your-startup-part-two/ http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/how-to-demo-your-startup-part-two/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:35:08 +0000 Dhananjay Nene http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/how-to-demo-your-startup-part-two/ How To Demo Your Startup (Part Two).

]]> http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/how-to-demo-your-startup-part-two/feed/ 0 Startup Lessons Learned — Take it with a grain of salt http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/startup-lessons-learned-take-it-with-a-grain-of-salt/ http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/09/startup-lessons-learned-take-it-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:27:04 +0000 Dhananjay Nene http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/?p=139 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 and Lows — Never give up
  • Don’t let your start-up define you
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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.

]]> http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/iphone-app-price-deflation/feed/ 0 David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08 | Omnisio http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/david-heinemeier-hansson-at-startup-school-08-omnisio/ http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/david-heinemeier-hansson-at-startup-school-08-omnisio/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:33:10 +0000 Dhananjay Nene http://dhananjay-nene.tumblr.com/post/45634926 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.

]]> http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/08/david-heinemeier-hansson-at-startup-school-08-omnisio/feed/ 0 Michael Nielsen » Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/michael-nielsen-shirkys-law-and-why-most-social-software-fails/ http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/michael-nielsen-shirkys-law-and-why-most-social-software-fails/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:04:38 +0000 Dhananjay Nene http://dhananjay-nene.tumblr.com/post/43414959 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 either fail to obey Shirky’s Law, or else are knockoffs that do little not already done by an existing site.

]]> http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/michael-nielsen-shirkys-law-and-why-most-social-software-fails/feed/ 0 A community manager should be one of the first hires – right after a solid engineering group and before you invest in corporate marketing people. http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/a-community-manager-should-be-one-of-the-first-hires-right-after-a-solid-engineering-group-and-before-you-invest-in-corporate-marketing-people/ http://tumblelog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/a-community-manager-should-be-one-of-the-first-hires-right-after-a-solid-engineering-group-and-before-you-invest-in-corporate-marketing-people/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:03:00 +0000 Dhananjay Nene http://dhananjay-nene.tumblr.com/post/42452401 “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 people :) .

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