Following our recent successful launch of Menuism.com, we’ve been asked by many, “what’s next?” For the past few months we’ve been heads-down on building the site and the functionality, and in most techies’ minds there’s a (mis)belief that all you need to do is build “it”, and “they” will come. Early on, Justin [...]
Posts under ‘Planning’
Beta-max
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks here at this little Two-Bit Operation. We set up a new web hosting server in preparation for running a private beta test, but as always, the process took longer than we had anticipated. Recently I’d been telling people that they’d be able to check out the [...]
Learning from the Art of the Start
Guy Kawasaki just posted an MP3 recording from an event known as the Art of the Start, where well-known venture capitalists from Silicon Valley gather to discuss the business environment for startups and strategies for raising capital in various market sectors. You can download it here.
The recording lasts an hour and can be a [...]
The school of hard knocks
Our friend Newt attended the Startup School this past weekend and raved to us about how great the sessions were. The schedule does seem really impressive; it reads like a Who’s Who of Web 2.0 notables. One talk that was particularly interesting was Paul Graham’s discussion on The Hardest Lessons for Startups to [...]
Starting a company: To quit or not to quit
While we took the route of quitting our jobs at HP and Microsoft to start our own business, this article I found on digg.com talks (link below) about 5 ways to use your current job to launch your new venture.
Since we decided to take the quitting route, I thought I’d comment on a few of [...]
