Start of the Start!
16 years ago
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Will share my experience, dilemmas, highs and lows of starting up. Will loosely be touching on the following areas
Bootstrapping
Revenue model
Partners
Technology Stack
Mentors
Books
Who am I : I am a developer who took the plunge 3.5 years back and started apartmentadda.com.
Who is this for : Developers/hackers/ideators and have been toying with the idea to start something
See you on Saturday!
@venkat2
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Start of Start has a startup problem… network issues .. 🙂
Thanks Venkat. It was good. One of the common question everyone who plans to venture into startups is during the breakeven time(i.e you have no paying customers) you are completely lost and sometimes you dont even see light at the end of the tunnel, so during such times in your initial period, what is that kept you hang on to this startup dream ? Because not all startup survives, and the failure rate is really high.
Hello Raja
Thank you for liking the presentation!
I guess its the self belief in the product itself – that this will sell.
Also during the initial days when there was no traction there was always lots to do and keep myself busy – thinking this little feature will turn it around – and I keep building, selling, building, selling – and things eventually started moving.
Btw here is the link to the mind map
http://www.mindmeister.com/138554770/start-of-the-start
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