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What are your top 3 questions about how to turn your idea into a startup?

5 points by nivi 19y ago

nivi 19y ago
What are your top 3 questions about how to turn your idea into a startup? My top 3: 1. How do I get money? 2. How do I get a good deal? 3. How do I recruit great people? I'll collect the responses and post the results here on news.yc. - Nivi from Venture Hacks, http://venturehacks.com http://venturehacks.com
dawie 19y ago
1) Whats my business model going to be? 2) Whats my business model going to be? 3) Where am I going to get a cofounder?
madanella 19y ago
After developing the idea, researching the market and such: 1. What's my business model? 2. How do I get to prototype/alpha/demo? 3. What investors are interested in this stage, industry and business model?
far33d 19y ago
It's all about the story: 1) Who is my audience? 2) What will I help them do that is better than what they have to do now? 3) How am I going to build it?
unfoldedorigami 19y ago
1. Do people want this? 2. Are you ridiculously passionate about the idea? 3. Are you willing to suffer deeply to make it successful?
jaggederest 19y ago
1. Where did I put the doritos? 2. Man, these doritos are good. 3. Wow, someone just handed me a lot of money.
Leonidas 19y ago
1. Would I have fun working on it? 2. Would people use it? 3. What's been done and how do I make it better?
menloparkbum 19y ago
1) how do I get 1 million + users in 18 months? 2) how do I manage 1 million + users with the smallest team possible? 3) how do I turn 1 million users into at least 10 million dollars? When I think of startups I'd like to be, I think of Winamp, hotornot.com, del.icio.us, reddit. These are companies that won big with only 1-5 people. I've been involved with startups that focused on getting a good series-A, hiring 20-30 people, then fucked around for 3 years and vanished off the face of the earth. At this point, i think a better approach is to stay small and cash out for $10M in 18 months, rather than try to get big with an increasingly diminishing chance of success. Of course if you're sure you've got a Google or YouTube, the "traditional" silicon valley venture-backed startup isn't a bad way to go. However it is kind of a bummer when you sell your thing for $1.4 billion and 600 million of it goes right to your investors... Would rather be Justin Frankel than Chad Hurley.

5 points by nivi 19y ago

nivi 19y ago

What are your top 3 questions about how to turn your idea into a startup? My top 3: 1. How do I get money? 2. How do I get a good deal? 3. How do I recruit great people? I'll collect the responses and post the results here on news.yc. - Nivi from Venture Hacks, http://venturehacks.com http://venturehacks.com

dawie 19y ago

1) Whats my business model going to be? 2) Whats my business model going to be? 3) Where am I going to get a cofounder?

madanella 19y ago

After developing the idea, researching the market and such: 1. What's my business model? 2. How do I get to prototype/alpha/demo? 3. What investors are interested in this stage, industry and business model?

far33d 19y ago

It's all about the story: 1) Who is my audience? 2) What will I help them do that is better than what they have to do now? 3) How am I going to build it?

unfoldedorigami 19y ago

1. Do people want this? 2. Are you ridiculously passionate about the idea? 3. Are you willing to suffer deeply to make it successful?

jaggederest 19y ago

1. Where did I put the doritos? 2. Man, these doritos are good. 3. Wow, someone just handed me a lot of money.

Leonidas 19y ago

1. Would I have fun working on it? 2. Would people use it? 3. What's been done and how do I make it better?

menloparkbum 19y ago

1) how do I get 1 million + users in 18 months? 2) how do I manage 1 million + users with the smallest team possible? 3) how do I turn 1 million users into at least 10 million dollars? When I think of startups I'd like to be, I think of Winamp, hotornot.com, del.icio.us, reddit. These are companies that won big with only 1-5 people. I've been involved with startups that focused on getting a good series-A, hiring 20-30 people, then fucked around for 3 years and vanished off the face of the earth. At this point, i think a better approach is to stay small and cash out for $10M in 18 months, rather than try to get big with an increasingly diminishing chance of success. Of course if you're sure you've got a Google or YouTube, the "traditional" silicon valley venture-backed startup isn't a bad way to go. However it is kind of a bummer when you sell your thing for $1.4 billion and 600 million of it goes right to your investors... Would rather be Justin Frankel than Chad Hurley.