When you just found a great idea for an app, the first step (after the initial excitement subsides) is to gather feedback from as many people as you can. That’s what we just made really simple now on FairSoftware with our new feedback widget. Once you setup your idea and enter a description, the community [...]
Below is a question from an entrepreneur, edited to protect the innocent (if you are a member of TheFunded.com, you can read the complete thread): Q: An investor has been pressing me to invest and needs A DECISION IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO, plus he is reminding me to stop publicizing my site and [...]
Advice on how to build a startup is plentiful online with countless blogs by seasoned entrepreneurs or consultants, successful or not. So it begs the question: why write a book in 2009 about starting your own web startup? “The Web Startup Success Guide” by Bob Walsh answers with a resounding yes! Despite all the information [...]
As a CS student, why do you write a program? To learn data structures, good coding practices and algorithms. Great. Now try this: write an iPhone app and put it on the App Store. What will you learn? Marketing, customer support, economics, PR. By the time you graduate with your CS degree, that little App [...]
Good programmers don’t need marketing. Great applications sell themselves. I used to think that way too. When I was an R&D engineer, I wrote the code. I made the product. I thought that sales and marketing were basically overhead. Then I switched sides, worked with sales people for a while, and witnessed how hard it [...]
I was representing our company at an event at the Berkeley campus last month and I got to interact with a lot of students about to graduate. In reality, the hot topic was finding jobs in this economy. I always happily give resume advice and generally try to help answer the many questions about finding [...]
If you are like 99% of software developers with a great idea, you don’t live next to Google headquarters in Mountain View or drive by Facebook’s offices in Palo Alto on your daily commute. But Silicon Valley still rules the world of Internet startups, so you should probably check it out. Don’t expect to drop [...]
Y-Combinator started sending rejection e-mails last night. TechStars was notifying 475 companies last week with the same bad news. If you are like almost everyone else, you didn’t make it. Now what? Exactly what did you lose by not making it to one of those two prestigious startup accelerator programs? Money You didn’t receive $15,000 [...]
