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How To Know Your Side Project Is Ready To Be A Startup
- noodle 16y agohow to know your side project is ready to be a startup: * you have employees * you have investors edit: note that this is a tongue-in-cheek response to the article that implies that you might somehow be considering something a "side project" when having employees and investors to answer to.
- krisrak 16y ago* you have customers using it
- joelrunyon 16y ago*you make money
- kmfrk 16y agoIt's that a stealth start-up? :p
- axod 16y agoNeither of those are necessary. * users * profit (Or a clear path to getting there)
- vortex30 16y agowhen your app is stable and your friends are using it constantly
- arroyo 16y agoAwesome article. This article is a must read for any person staring at the entrepreneurship cliff and contemplating jumping into it.
- swecker 16y agoI like this article, but the title is deceiving. I read it expecting to find project milestones that hint to it's readiness to take off. I think a more appropriate title would be "How To Know You Are Ready To Make Your Side Project A Startup" All in all thanks for your advice.
- nhangen 16y agoExactly - I was hoping for some analysis, perhaps nuts & bolts of when to know it's time, rather than when it feels right.
- pedalpete 16y agoThe content vs. title of the article makes me wonder if a side-project vs. the start-up is more a matter of your mentality toward what you're doing and the stage you're at than the project itself. If you are thinking too small, it is up to you to figure out the bigger opportunity. Doesn't the rest flow from there?
- adii 16y agoWhat about just having a passion, a vision and a way to potentially monetize that? Sometimes, as entrepreneurs, we need to go out on a limb.
- jasonlbaptiste 16y agoThose are 3 of the most important :). Don't have to have all 8 or even a majority of them. Sometimes 1 can be enough.
- adii 16y agoHehe, I'm only reading the article now. My comment was based on the other comments here.
- yakto 16y ago> Zuck started FB at one college with one photo, but I bet you he knew exactly what it could become one day. I'd take that bet.
- mlinsey 16y agoAccording to the Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick, for most of the first 6 months of Facebook, while the site was been growing at Harvard and during the first summer in California, the Facebook crew still did think of Facebook as just a project or maybe a fad, which is one of the reasons they spent so much time on Wirehog, a short lived peer-to-peer file sharing program. However, supposedly shortly after the first investment from Thiel that fall and with a lot of pushing from Sean Parker, Zuckerberg and his crew did lay out the entire multi-year plan for Facebook including photo albums, the news feed, the platform, and Connect.
- yakto 16y agoI win. :)