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The New Online-Only Newspapers Should Try and Emulate Startups
- speek 18y agoI'm actually working on a magazine that's very startup like. Everybody does everything, nobody really gets paid yet. It's entertaining. We haven't actually launched yet, but it'll be really fun once this project takes off.
- shafqat 18y agoThat's the way to do it! Good luck - whats the magazine? What genre?
- speek 18y agoThe name of the magazine is "The Robosexual." I'm aiming it to be about the lifestyle of the modern geek. It's a blend of GQ, Seed, Cargo (a great, defunct magazine), Wired, and Smart Money. It's not going to be your father's traditional magazine, there's a subscriber/user interaction thing that I'm working on that is being a pain in the butt. Once we get that done, we're going to launch the website and that'll lead to the print magazine.
- shafqat 18y agoSounds awesome - great niche! Also, love the landing page. You have a fairly appropriate target market here at HN. Drop me a line (shafqat at newscred dot com) when you get a chance. Would love to stay in touch and maybe we could even find ideas to work together.
- vaksel 18y agostartups only have to deal with 1-2 big competitors, a web only newspaper will have to deal with every single newspaper on the web and with news.Google
- shafqat 18y agoIf the web newspaper focuses relentlessly on providing the best local news, high value editorial news, and news of a regional interest (sports etc), they are also only competing with one or two big competitors. The same thing can be said for startups - they have to focus on one thing and do it well.