- I'll keep that one under my hat for the moment. We'll be announcing something in about a week, so if you add your email to your profile, I'll let you know when we do.
Have you ever consider kickstarter.com for funding your SW startup?
- We're bootstrapping, and don't really have a way to make use of funds other than hosting, but it's immediately profitable after the first sale, and hosting isn't a huge part of the cost.
What's the best 3 ways you've found to keep everyone focused (project management system, group chat, weekly meetings, etc)?
- We're on Skype always, and aside from a recent hospital trip of mine, we're in pretty constant contact. We use pivotaltracker for bug-spotting, Skype for general chat, Group.Me for mobile contact or finding people who aren't on Skype, Google docs and GoToMeeting for collaboration. I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting, but those are the main things.
How were you able to get national press?
- We put some of the non-developers on buzz-building during the StartupWeekend. By the end of the weekend, we had over 100 Facebook likes, 900 Twitter followers, some blog coverage and a phone call + a couple of mentions on Twitter by Robert Scoble.
What lawyer did you use?
- Steve Kaplan of Pillsbury Law is who we consulted with, and whose insight proved to be invaluable. Like I said, we were able to exploit his wisdom at a conference, so we aren't regular customers of his (yet), but he was extremely savvy in answering our questions and even provided follow-up answers via email for some questions we had that were outside of his focus.
- http://www.pillsburylaw.com/
- If you'd like his contact info, email me, and I'll be happy to provide it for you.
I did (I think). If not, it's bigcheeseatmousekickdotcom
Thanks for your comments about kickstarter. I think we are in the same boat but just interested in what others are doing.
So, national press doesn't mean like a "national" site...just lots of people all across the place. I think the tweets by Scoble probably are a lot better for buying street cred though.
I'll check out this site. We are all meeting this week and this will be something we'll be talking about (lawyer/legal stuff)
- I'll keep that one under my hat for the moment. We'll be announcing something in about a week, so if you add your email to your profile, I'll let you know when we do.
Have you ever consider kickstarter.com for funding your SW startup?
- We're bootstrapping, and don't really have a way to make use of funds other than hosting, but it's immediately profitable after the first sale, and hosting isn't a huge part of the cost.
What's the best 3 ways you've found to keep everyone focused (project management system, group chat, weekly meetings, etc)?
- We're on Skype always, and aside from a recent hospital trip of mine, we're in pretty constant contact. We use pivotaltracker for bug-spotting, Skype for general chat, Group.Me for mobile contact or finding people who aren't on Skype, Google docs and GoToMeeting for collaboration. I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting, but those are the main things.
How were you able to get national press? - We put some of the non-developers on buzz-building during the StartupWeekend. By the end of the weekend, we had over 100 Facebook likes, 900 Twitter followers, some blog coverage and a phone call + a couple of mentions on Twitter by Robert Scoble.
What lawyer did you use? - Steve Kaplan of Pillsbury Law is who we consulted with, and whose insight proved to be invaluable. Like I said, we were able to exploit his wisdom at a conference, so we aren't regular customers of his (yet), but he was extremely savvy in answering our questions and even provided follow-up answers via email for some questions we had that were outside of his focus. - http://www.pillsburylaw.com/ - If you'd like his contact info, email me, and I'll be happy to provide it for you.