![]() ![]() Who should be on my start up team (and why do I even need one)?Ĭhapter One: Find a pain point and solve it. What's the difference between "friends and family" "angel" and "venture" capital? How much equity should you give away,and to whom? Why you should.or sholdn't.hire a "business strategist" Why Can't My "Deck" Be More Than 5 Pages Long? What Is The Coming Mobile ayment Revolution? What is meant by "mobile" or "social" With Respect To Apps? What are Foursquare, Yelp, Gowalla, Brightkite, and other social/mobile apps and why do they exist? What is the "long tail" of a market and why do I need to know?īo Peabody and his awesome book Lucky Or Smartĭavid Silver's book Social Network Business Plan , because you need a blog, not a websiteĬhris Anderson and his two amazing books Free and The Long Tail How (And Why) to use Google Reader instead of Google searchĪ (because reading pales in comparison to listening during exercise, housework, etc) We'll get into detail as we address them.įind A Pain Point And Solve It (today's entry)įorget "Regular" Google (despite how awesome this link is): Focus Your Start Up Searching With Podcasts and Google Reader (also partly covered today) Consider this a table of contents for a series of posts to come. To those of you who got on this start up thing a year ago, please skip over the material that you're already familiar with. Good, right?) I can only share what my method has been, but it's generic enough that it can't hurt as a place to begin. So how do you start up a start up? (Important: for the purpose of this conversation, starting up a start up counts as a start up. ![]() (That, plus an actual reason to spend all day on the internet!) ![]() In the meantime, you will have embarked on the most rewarding journey you've taken in years, keeping your mind off unpleasant hypothetical scenarios while reacquainting yourself with everything you were once passionate about. Statistically there is a 90% chance your start up idea won't work, but if you start off being realistic about that, you won't be too bummed if it doesn't happen. Who better to start up a world-changing business? We have always worked long hours for little pay (don't you just laugh when you hear investment banking and lawyer friends whine about how hard they worked when they were coming up?) we are born problem solvers, we shun group think, we think about life in philosophical and even metaphysical terms, we welcome chaos, we are skeptical of easy reductionism, and we know how to communicate our ideas in compelling ways. Who better to do this than architects and designers? We're entrepreneurs by nature. The answer, I believe, is to start up a company. (The First In A Series Of Posts About Figuring Out The Next Thing We-And There Are An Awful Lot Of Us-Are Going To Do)Īre you an architect, designer or construction professional unemployed or otherwise disenfranchised by the economy of 2008? (We won't get into the politics, but ask yourself who was in charge from 2000 to 2008?) If so, you, like me, have been trying to figure out what to do. ![]()
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