Kako startovati start-up: debelo US dot-com iskustvo

[mungos]

We officially launched in early 1996. By the end of that year we had about 70 users. Since this was the era of "get big fast," I worried about how small and obscure we were. But in fact we were doing exactly the right thing. Once you get big (in users or employees) it gets hard to change your product. That year was effectively a laboratory for improving our software. By the end of it, we were so far ahead of our competitors that they never had a hope of catching up. And since all the hackers had spent many hours talking to users, we understood online commerce way better than anyone else...


http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html


Supernapucan, zanimljiv i veoma obiman tekst o ranim počecima elektronskog biznisa, prošaran debelim iskustvom. Autor je Paul Graham, čovjek koji je sa svojim timom razvijao jednu od prvih web aplikacija, koju je uskoro kupio Yahoo!...

Esej je inače dio njegove knjige "Hackers & Painters", a na samom sajtu se može pronaći još dosta dobrih tekstova. Inače,kao recenzenti knjige pojavljuju se neka zvučna imena, između ostalih: Chris Anderson (Editor-in-Chief, Wired), David Weinberger (co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto), Evan Williams (co-creator of Blogger), Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, (Creator/Director, Slashdot), Andy Hertzfeld (co-creator of the Macintosh), Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto (creator of Ruby), profesorski kadar sa zvučnih američkih sveučilišta,...

[bluesman]

Genijalna jednostavnost, ovo je srž svega onoga što ja pokušavam:
I can think of several heuristics for generating ideas for startups, but most reduce to this: look at something people are trying to do, and figure out how to do it in a way that doesn't suck.

Ne treba izmišljati toplu vodu nego bolji bojler. Ne kažem da sam ja sada nešto pametan :) ali ovo mi je ideja sve ove godine, samo što nikada nisam uspeo ovako plastično da objasnim a još manje da realizujem. Najveći problem koji vidim kada se ujutro pogledam u ogledalo je što sam zapostavio svoje vizije zbog brze i lake zarade. Ispostavilo se da je zarada, koliko god to nekome "dosta" izgledalo, samo "peanuts" a sve što mi je trebalo je malo strpljenja i puno hrabrosti. Nečega od ova dva nisam imao, pretpostavljam ovo drugo, a porodica i obezbeđuvanje egzistencije mi je služilo kao savršen izgovor.

This is about to change :)

Ne znam ni zašto ovo pričam, koga to interesuje? :)

[Ilija Studen]

Paul je jedan od najboljih autora koje sam čitao u poslednje vreme. Jedan do njegovih stavova mi se jako svideo, toliko da sam ga prepričao (http://area51.cryostudio.net/entry/skolski-primeri.html) :)

Takođe pogledajte: Prevod njegovo teksta Veliki hakeri (http://kotnik.ns-linux.org/file.php?id=404) by kotnik.

[mungos]

Evo price o srpskom startupu, u pitanju je kompanija Agena (www.agena.co.yu). Cuo sam za njih via DNK.

http://www.ekonomist.co.yu/magazin/ebit/18/men/men1.htm

[Itchy]

Manje-više startup (tu je očito faktor sreće bio presudan) ali tekst je sjajan.

[mungos]

From the NYT Deal newsletter: (07 October 2004)
"A new Palo Alto start-up called JotSpot launches today, making available a Web-based product that it says will take emerging Wiki technology to a new level. A Wiki, in its simplest form, is a Web site that can be written upon and edited by multiple users at once. The company has been working on its product for just over a year, and recently raised $5.2 million from Silicon Valley venture firms Mayfield and Redpoint Ventures. "


Hop, ukucam ja pola godine kasnije http://jotspot.com/ , kad interfejs u stilu ogoljene varijante bloggera. Wiki varijanta Bloggera za velike pare, koja će tek da dođe. Novčanice, novčanice...

http://rodrigo.typepad.com/english/2004/10/wiki_startup_ra.html