Launch one of 3 projects as an actual startup, quit dayjob.
1) infrastructure/platform related to security
2) hardware device with social network features
3) consumer-focused webapp in data aggregation/presentation
I've spent the last couple months since getting back from Afghanistan working on all 3 at early stages, finding potential cofounders, clients, funding, etc., and am pretty much at the decision point. Should be going full-time with one of them in January (I need to hit a vesting cliff of 12-31-2009 before doing so, counting down the hours...)
I guess I posted this in the wrong thread. Here are mine:
Plans: (1) Add a few more members to the team. (2) Lease our own office instead of sublease. (3) Release the new version of our app. (4) Expand two more verticals. (5) Get more mainstream press. (6) Finish moving our core team to New York City. We're currently 2 of 4 in NYC. (7) Start our newsletter. (8) Do more charity work. (9) Start a meetup. (10) Get involved in local NYC art/design scene more than I already am.
By february, want to reach $12000 a month, from about $8000 at the moment. Want to diversify and do something I can be more proud of and actually boast about, while increasing sales to bring in $30.000 a month = $1000 a day.
I don't yet know what I can do to reach my target, but will work on it. Also, want to improve my management skills so I am more diplomatic but still get things done in the right way.
Actually reach profitability with my News plattform, move the platform oto a reliable VPS , Make my mobile plattform service a standard for bloggers and implement a revenue Model for Bloggers in the plattform. By the end of 2010, the mobile plattform should be a must have for every site out there.
- Taken on two extra staff for my first startup and get it to the point where I just check the numbers once a week whilst providing three people a great income and me with an awesome, passive income.
- Create an awesome new SaaS business with a really smart cofounder and see where it takes us.
I'd like to just put together an idea and see it through to the end. The success of the project isn't all that important to me really. I'd just like the experience of doing it. Maybe someday I'd have a really good idea and would be prepared to make it happen.
Make money by writing an algorithm for trading. I've tried the startup thing for so long now (over 20 yrs), and haven't succeeded and so I think I just don't have what it takes. Time to move on and try something else for a change instead of beating a dead horse.
launch my 3 year old web app to the public and watch the data flow from a pile of people using it. Get the code efficient enough that the pile doesn't break the bank in server costs.
disrupt an industry that overcharges their customers because their hardware and infrastructure requirements are out-dated; they haven't innovated since the 1990's.
