This is the personal online journal of a first-time Entrepreneur - it will chronicle both my personal journey in business as well as the march of a brand-new startup.
About me: I've wanted to start a company for several years now. Although I've been reasonably successful as a software engineer and manager, and somewhat successful at stock/options trading, it is my fondest wish to work for myself and to create something of lasting value in the business world. Partly, this is for the money, of course - generated equity can be quite valuable - but partly it is also for the challenge involved and the opportunity to contribute!
The story so far: I've thought of many different ideas in the past few years, and also pursued some of them in my own fashion, which means that I invest time and effort, but am unwilling to commit any significant money to them. This time will be different; I intend to invest real amounts of my hard-earned salary into my startup.
There are two other differences: first, this time, I will be actively seeking one or two co-founders (my past efforts were all solo); and second, I shall be seeking market confirmation first through market research, focus groups, customer conversations, and so on, before any of the Engineering work is started. Of course, I still have to think about implementation in order to gauge feasibility, but it stops there.
The immediate idea I'm working on, is the creation of a customer-messaging infrastructure that can be used in many different contexts. The point is to create a general-purpose architecture, but to sell services for a variety of applications built on top of this architecture.
Let us see how it goes. Feel free to follow along with me, and to post comments if you agree or disagree. I'm primarily writing this for myself, not for generating a readership; if it helps anyone else, then that's a big bonus.
Happy Startup!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
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