The *business* of software
Dharmesh Shah on insights from and around MIT
Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot and the excellent Onstartups.com blog gave this fascinating presentation at Business of Software 2008. Some of the highlights include:
Your idea can suck. Just get started.
Not having cash breeds good behaviour.
The 12 flaming hoops of venture capital.
Write a blog, not a business plan.
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Comment by Will Kriski on November 7, 2008 at 3:38am -
This is great advice. The Ready, Fire, Aim concept. I launched a membership site recently with no cash so I had to find a way to provide all the features (email marketing, affliate marketing, forums, etc). Found a SaaS provider for it membership site for $99/month. A VC advisor told me it takes at least $250K+ to build a typical web app. I don't want VC. I also want a real way to make money (charge money for the content) as opposed to advertising. I'm trying to figure out the right product, right offer, right price, right sales copy by testing, testing testing. As Dharmesh says the final product may be different than the original idea.
Thanks for validating the approach.
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Comment by John Legg on March 10, 2009 at 3:32am
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Excellent presentation! Get started its not Rocket Surgery.
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