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cheers wheels your "crotchety" point's a good one. in fact, it's a frequent point of discussion within the team. the website!=business comment is a common rebu
by jasonb05 18y ago
cheers wheels
your "crotchety" point's a good one. in fact, it's a frequent point of discussion within the team. the website!=business comment is a common rebuke for us.
my position is agreement with your statement. "something people want" is a starting point, a primer for the business. rather than four business in four months, I argue 4 seeds, some of which may grow into viable business, and most that won't.
Further, trying to grow 4 business at a time (come November) is equally insane. The niches are small (we call them micro startups - one month to address the core need, the "one thing"), and the end of the year might be a good time to weed.
nevertheless, we are learning a tremendous amount about the process, about users, and about how much we truly don't know. and damn it's better than working in an office!
- mmilo 18y agoMy only addition to this is that we hope to be doing more pruning as opposed to weeding come end of the year :)
- wheels 18y agoHey Jason -- I'd really recommend taking one of the ideas at the end of the four months and seeing how far you can run with it. The trials and errors of building a business have really been the eye-opening part of our own startup experience. There's nothing quite like that first flopped investor pitch or learning how to incorporate or doing semi-long-term planning to really change your outlook. Best of luck. :-)
- mace 18y agoAgreed. It might be worthwhile to work on a project longer than a month to build a user base and accumulate enough useful feedback that might lead you into building what people want. Project Mayhem is an interesting experiment. I bet some of your products might turn out to be better than more well-funded products.