Archive for the 'business' Category
How to get good off-shore developers - Part 2
June 19th, 2008Off-shoing your web-development is a great way to save money and, if you are bootstrapping a small start-up, it could be the perfect strategy to hang on to more equity and delay financing. However off-shoring your development is also fraught with risks, it is far harder to manage your development and communicate ideas, so it [...]
How to get good off-shore developers - Part 1
December 14th, 2007A really effective way of boot-strapping your start-up is to off-shore and out-source your development. But doing this also carries risks, how can you be sure that you are going to get a developer who’ll see it through and has the right experience? This post lays out an effective process to find the right developer.
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How to boot-strap your start-up
September 12th, 2007The aim of many entrepreneurs is to take a business idea and convert it into a professional and functioning business on a low budget. This is typically called “bootstrapping” and it is fraught with potential pitfalls and dangers, but when done well can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having [...]
Has eBay stopped bidding on auctions?
August 21st, 2007Techcrunch recently reported that eBay lost $1bn of market cap. Combining this with reports from some sellers that “eBay is broken“, it is clear that it’s time to take a closer look at just what is happening with eBay.
Firstly, some facts sourced from eBay’s quarterly reports:
eBay’s subscriber activity rate has declined from 41% in Q1 2005 [...]
Web 2.0 for entrepreneurs
July 26th, 2007There’s a lot of talk about “Web 2.0″ on the Internet at the moment, in this post I try and cut through the hype and look, pragmatically, at what entrepreneurs need to do to use Web 2.0 to build exciting and valuable propositions.
In this post I’m deliberately looking at the impact which Web 2.0 has [...]
