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This is really brilliant. Imagine what people would say if you traveled 50 years in the past and told them you could launch a new business in less than 11 hours
by trekker7 19y ago
This is really brilliant. Imagine what people would say if you traveled 50 years in the past and told them you could launch a new business in less than 11 hours.
- brent 19y agoThis business would be analogous to a lemonade stand. The people in the past would understand it just fine.
- rrival 19y agoNot to discount this remarkable achievement, but a lemonade stand would have a business model ;)
- mmaunder 19y agoSometimes folks forget that AdSense is a widget. :)
- brent 19y agoNo, AdSense is a business model in which there is a simple javascript widget interface. The model is money in exchange for advertising across billions(?) of websites. A startup is created and launched when there is a business model that uses the widget. Otherwise its a programming exercise. Any reasonable programmer can create a program in <10 hours, but unless there is a business model it is not a startup.
- webwright 19y agoA good example being YouTube? Or Google (before adwords)? Twitter? Delicious? Reddit (before advertising)? If you build something people want to use, monetizing it is always something that you can pull off. I would say that a business model has to exist eventually-- and a startup ought to have a few in mind. But I don't think an active business model is required to be labeled as a "startup".