Thursday, November 25, 2010

Defining the key parts of a startup venture - When, Where, How? - Part 2

As I posted in the first part, we discussed the following key questions of our startup adventure:
  1. Why?
  2. What?
  3. Who/How many?
  4. When?
  5. Where?
  6. How?
I will now cover the last three questions: When?, Where? and How?
  1. When?
    We haven't made a real project plan and I think this would be rather a hindrance than of help. Yet we have agreed on the following:
    - we want to stay in our day jobs as along as possible, which is reducing the risks, but maybe also the chances.
    - To enhance the chances we all could take 2-3 months off - a sabbatical to make this work ;)
    - we don't want to do this without any real results for too long. The official startup company will launch in 2011!
    - We still have to determine how we recognize that it all works and we can quit our day jobs
  2. Where?
    Although early angel investors like Paul Graham suggest to move to a Startup Hub, we won't move. At least not now. Maybe this is due to the fact that we live already in the best startup country (which is the European Union), but also within the EU we already live in one of the biggest IT&Software cities - Munich.
    BUT we would move if we recognize that it is necessary.
  3. How?
    Ok, so that is a big one. How to Start a Startup is a good starting read from Paul Graham: "You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible."
    We are a great bunch, we will make something customers want (see customer development) and we have a Swabian in our team, who are known as excessively stingy.
    Besides this we decided to use the following process:
    - Meet weekly - once for work, once for pleasure - we are still friends and want to keep our strong personal relations as a key success factor
    - Recap some readings - e.g. customer development, other startup blogs, administrative and legislative stuff, ...
    - Idea development - Brainstorm, Business Model Hypotheses, ...
    - Gather a list of To-dos, Know-How, Work-packages and define responsibilities (matching to our personal strengths).
So this is how we made the first step. And we now feel more confident about NemoEtAl and would like to take you with us on our journey.
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