Comments on: Time to sing? http://blog.snagsta.com/2008/03/28/time-to-sing/ helping you find the things google can't Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew Deal http://blog.snagsta.com/2008/03/28/time-to-sing/#comment-51 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:40:11 +0000 http://blog.snagsta.com/2008/03/28/time-to-sing/#comment-51 I have seen this list before. We are doing most, and looking for more feedback, as we are currently seeding the system with early profiles and listeners.

]]> By: Neil http://blog.snagsta.com/2008/03/28/time-to-sing/#comment-49 Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:46:31 +0000 http://blog.snagsta.com/2008/03/28/time-to-sing/#comment-49 Some of this advice is excellent, but some of these sound like things *not* to do when launching a startup (I’ve made the same mistakes myself):

> 2. talk to your competitors.

I’m unconvinced by this. I’d like my competitors to talk to me, but I don’t particularly want to talk to them. I suppose it depends on what the barriers to competition are.

> 7. Do not spend time on market research, but launch as early as possible in alpha or beta versions. Keep improving the product in the open.

You need to do market research to determine if people are willing to use your products, and what price they’re willing to pay (if any). If you don’t do this you may never get any users, and you certainly won’t get any investment.

> 8. Do not focus on a large spreadsheet business plan, you are so sure it is not going to happen anyway.

Again, you’ll probably not get any investment unless you have the spreadsheets.

> 10. Do not focus on getting rich or selling your company, focus on your users, money is a consequence of success, can’t be a goal

Users themselves won’t provide a sustainable business. I’d say the opposite: “Focus on how you’re going to make money, then figure out how your users are going to make it for you”.

I went to http://www.seesmic.com/ and it was “sleeping”. Strange…

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