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Good question-- Money would go to a development team (1 or 2 coders plus me). I'm a front end guy-- design, html, css, javascript, flash, and some light rails

Good question-- Money would go to a development team (1 or 2 coders plus me). I'm a front end guy-- design, html, css, javascript, flash, and some light rails skills. I'm not too concerned with marketing right now-- though that could chage. I'm a big fan of SEO and SMM (in fact, I just had a speaking engagement on that topic). In terms of plans-- There are a few ways we could go. Freemium, enterprise/biz/groups functionality, etc. The data is also pretty valuable... If you've ever priced data from Comscore Media Metrix, you'll know that having good data on user behavior is pretty valuable... Of course, this is only valuable if the users are a reasonable cross-section of users. Then again, Alexa does pretty good business having a pretty non-representative sample... If we go the enterprise route (I'm not eager to go there-- I'd prefer to focus on small/med biz if we create a biz offering), we'd certainly get insurance-- though the rates for professional liability insurance are laughable small when compared to other costs.

jdavid 19y ago
@webwright, i guess i do not yet understand what value you have in you're business yet. are you doing this to pay the bills, create a revolution, change the world, pay your future offspring's bills, or just to create something cool? when i was thinking enterprise, i was not thinking watchdog, big brother, but maybe a personal productivity tool for personal use offered on the enterprise level. its your tool, you can do what you want with it. when i talked to a vc at defcon, she had said that usually you price it at 20$ per user annually for an enterprise micro-app like the ones that many of us YC'ers are/ could be developing. If you sell in volume you might even sell it like zimbra did to yahoo. as a freemium, i do not think your business is as scalable. what do the yc investors think on here? i would guess if they are going to invest, they are going to use similar rules that someone like sequoia might, and they look for billion dollar companies. what is YC looking for? have you thought about your exit strategy? are you in it for the long haul, or for a certain amount of wealth?

jdavid 19y ago

@webwright, i guess i do not yet understand what value you have in you're business yet. are you doing this to pay the bills, create a revolution, change the world, pay your future offspring's bills, or just to create something cool? when i was thinking enterprise, i was not thinking watchdog, big brother, but maybe a personal productivity tool for personal use offered on the enterprise level. its your tool, you can do what you want with it. when i talked to a vc at defcon, she had said that usually you price it at 20$ per user annually for an enterprise micro-app like the ones that many of us YC'ers are/ could be developing. If you sell in volume you might even sell it like zimbra did to yahoo. as a freemium, i do not think your business is as scalable. what do the yc investors think on here? i would guess if they are going to invest, they are going to use similar rules that someone like sequoia might, and they look for billion dollar companies. what is YC looking for? have you thought about your exit strategy? are you in it for the long haul, or for a certain amount of wealth?