Skeletor

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by Skeletor 17y ago
I'm going to suggest something crazy. You probably won't be able to estimate the size of your market using the internet. Go to a research library where you can read and copy paid industry and market research reports for free (the library
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by Skeletor 17y ago
I actually see this as how users can creatively use a site for what they really want to use it for despite how it is designed. These people wanted to vent their complaints and have other people see them. Since they were complaining about
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by Skeletor 17y ago
At least in that space at such a low level, there are many existing products people could choose to use if they wanted to. There are no existing free open source projects that solve this problem (and there are other problems where market f
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by Skeletor 17y ago
I think your analysis is correct. I'm kind of torn between the business person in me telling me to find a good solution and use it as an advantage and the programmer in me that hates anyone duplicating work needlessly.
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What specific problems are lots of programmers solving over and over again?
11 points by Skeletor 17y ago|4 comments
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by Skeletor 18y ago
I resigned from my 8 year career at a large financial software firm to work on my start-up full time this past January. It is definitely a risk and most people who work in a large stable corporation won't make that move. They thought I wa
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by Skeletor 18y ago
I think these competitions are a great way to get public exposure for your company and learn a lot in the process. I'm applying for this event myself. Has anyone had previous experience with competitions like this? Is there a downside I'
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NYC Entrepreneur Week is hosting a Business Plan Competition(nycentweek.com)
1 points by Skeletor 18y ago|1 comments
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by Skeletor 18y ago
If you have access to a research library, you could do some research and write a feasibility study in a day of work. A feasibility study would be the first draft of your business plan after working on it for a day. Do some basic market res
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by Skeletor 18y ago
I have my own start-up in the health care software space and it is a little disturbing to see the rush of companies coming into the space and trying to grasp for government funding attached to Obama's stimulus plan. However, it will probabl
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by Skeletor 18y ago
I put the video links on our company blog so people without Windows could watch our cut of the clips. This was our first TV appearance for our start-up DrChrono.com and a great chance to talk about creating a start-up in this economy. I t
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CNBC interview with Carl Schramm (CEO Kauffman.org) on how start-ups create new jobs.(blog.drchrono.com)
1 points by Skeletor 18y ago|1 comments
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by Skeletor 18y ago
Everyone has to do their first start-up at some point. Just because you haven't done a start-up failed or otherwise by the time you are 30, doesn't mean that you won't ever do one. I think in this economy a lot of people who haven't previ
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by Skeletor 18y ago
I really love how JQuery UI gets better with every release. I was working from some of the latest subversion releases for a while, and the code and the quality of how its packed and delivered keeps getting better.
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Question: Does a blog sub-domain help the Pagerank and popularity of your main website?
11 points by Skeletor 18y ago|8 comments
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Is it a good idea to put adsense ads on a start-up promotional blog?
3 points by Skeletor 18y ago|2 comments
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by Skeletor 18y ago
Inspirational advice from Paul Graham yet again! Reading his essays is what truly inspired me to start my own company. I think this type of essay still gets me psyched up. I'm definitely trying to follow rule #11 right now and not get de
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The top 5 questions a start-up should answer at a Press Conference(blog.drchrono.com)
2 points by Skeletor 18y ago|0 comments
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by Skeletor 18y ago
I agree. I actually resigned from my full time job at a big corporation to work full time on my start-up because of the opportunity to come out with a new cost-saving product
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On JDate and the ABC’s of selling yourself or any product online(blog.drchrono.com)
3 points by Skeletor 18y ago|0 comments
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by Skeletor 18y ago
If you have an internal planning business plan document and things don't turn out the way you said they would. You should be 100% accountable to yourself, your partners, and your employees about why your projections were wrong.
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by Skeletor 18y ago
What if you rebate the cost of your software to customers for a trial period? Do you think that counts as revenue or as nill? What if you prepay for a year of office space before the end of your fiscal year to show no profit in a year? Di
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by Skeletor 18y ago
I don't like your statement about a business plan not being a plan to run your company, that is exactly what it should be. Though maybe your 1 page strategy document is your real business plan. The business plan is just a name though, you
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by Skeletor 18y ago
I just took a 10 week entrepreneur course called FastTrac, there are many local versions of the course throughout the US. I took a version in NYC. The course met once a week for 3 hours and was a great networking and social gathering. It
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by Skeletor 18y ago
I gave my two weeks notice and am staying on one last week before I resign. I hope to start posting incredibly arrogant startup advice based on my successful venture a few months from now.
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by Skeletor 18y ago
Who is working on a compressed air scooter?
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by Skeletor 18y ago
My thoughts exactly, this is what I truly believe. It is only Fear Uncertainty and Doubt that make me worry about it.
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by Skeletor 18y ago
Current job definitely doesn't do that.
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by Skeletor 18y ago
Yes, me and my co-founder will be bootstrapping for at least the first year. But our plans are to become cash flow positive in 6 months. I can probably survive for 3-4 years with no job, my partner at least 1 year.
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by Skeletor 18y ago
The startup would be a two person company me and a friend are co-founding.

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