How do you do this when you are just an itty-bitty company (like "two guys an idea").
I have spent a lot of time researching what you need and have always been blocked by the business plan requirement.
1. A good biz plan has detailed projections of sales, marketing, costs, etc. How does one figure out how many copies of the app they are going to sell, at what price, etc? Are you expected to just make these numbers up? I can see real companies doing research (whatever a marketing group would do to come up with it), but again, we are only at the idea stage.
2. A biz plan also expects a good, solid mgmt team in place. Pray tell how does this happen without a business with considerable revenue (at least enough to pay mgmt salaries)?
I am really down in the dumps because of this roadblock. The product we are working on is something we really believe in (yeah, yeah, talk is cheap we know).
Any ideas for angel funding (besides go find someone that will fund you). I don't know ANYONE that has $200k+ to throw around on some idea.
We have some basic architecture in place (at the software level), but we need a lot more time to work on it (basically we have to be full time at it which we can't do--we both have fulltime jobs in the "industry").
Let's face it. The guy is a boob. If anyone knows him (from his college days), the guy isn't brilliant. He has a lot of money. He didn't "invent" the browser, he was merely porting it to Windows when Jim Clark contacted him.
I give him credit for what he has done (mainly make a lot of money), he is far from being a brilliant guy.
Anyone ever hear him talk at a conference? Geesh. What an idiot.
I am not trying to make this a bash-fest, but to put this guy up on a pedestal is ridiculous. That's like saying Steve Case is an Internet guru. Geesh.
As far as ASPs go. Chalk that one up next to the network guru, the Java OS, and all the of other crack-pot ideas Sun as come up with.
The web is a nice medium for information, and very basic apps, but I would absolutely hate to have to use a web-based app for something complex or time consuming.
I think local apps (like Win32, Linux) that are made for the OS and use the "Internet" as a network are much more powerful. Let's face it, the Internet is just a big WAN.
The infrastructure required for this (to be reliable, have QoS, security, privacy, etc.) is a long, long way off.
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Glad Linus cleared that up for us.
They aren't just parasites... they are parasites and more?
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How do you do this when you are just an itty-bitty company (like "two guys an idea").
I have spent a lot of time researching what you need and have always been blocked by the business plan requirement.
1. A good biz plan has detailed projections of sales, marketing, costs, etc. How does one figure out how many copies of the app they are going to sell, at what price, etc? Are you expected to just make these numbers up? I can see real companies doing research (whatever a marketing group would do to come up with it), but again, we are only at the idea stage.
2. A biz plan also expects a good, solid mgmt team in place. Pray tell how does this happen without a business with considerable revenue (at least enough to pay mgmt salaries)?
I am really down in the dumps because of this roadblock. The product we are working on is something we really believe in (yeah, yeah, talk is cheap we know).
Any ideas for angel funding (besides go find someone that will fund you). I don't know ANYONE that has $200k+ to throw around on some idea.
We have some basic architecture in place (at the software level), but we need a lot more time to work on it (basically we have to be full time at it which we can't do--we both have fulltime jobs in the "industry").
Get AtGuard (if your a Windows user). It strips all banner ads (well about 95% of them) and all refers.
And what exactly are all these LINUX application servers going to be running? And for whom?
Finally, I know that %s will make the Amiga powerful again.
Let's face it. The guy is a boob. If anyone knows him (from his college days), the guy isn't brilliant. He has a lot of money. He didn't "invent" the browser, he was merely porting it to Windows when Jim Clark contacted him.
I give him credit for what he has done (mainly make a lot of money), he is far from being a brilliant guy.
Anyone ever hear him talk at a conference? Geesh. What an idiot.
I am not trying to make this a bash-fest, but to put this guy up on a pedestal is ridiculous. That's like saying Steve Case is an Internet guru. Geesh.
As far as ASPs go. Chalk that one up next to the network guru, the Java OS, and all the of other crack-pot ideas Sun as come up with.
The web is a nice medium for information, and very basic apps, but I would absolutely hate to have to use a web-based app for something complex or time consuming.
I think local apps (like Win32, Linux) that are made for the OS and use the "Internet" as a network are much more powerful. Let's face it, the Internet is just a big WAN.
The infrastructure required for this (to be reliable, have QoS, security, privacy, etc.) is a long, long way off.
My trusty Voodoo3 2000 runs UT perfectly with all details on max at 1024x768 on a P2-450.
I paid $99 for the card and overclock it at 175Mhz without ever a problem.
Screw paying $300 for a card.