Archive for the 'StartUpMarketing' Category

Definition of "Demo"

July 13, 2007

Customer: “I want a demo…well I really want to try before I buy”
Sales Guy: “You want me to wash you and you don’t want me to get you wet.”
Customer: “Exactly”
Deal done! Made me laugh.

A Great Site for Budding Entrepreneurs

July 12, 2007

Kaufman eVenturing is a simple superb web site for any budding entrepreneur. It has all sorts of wonderful content from articles about valuations of pre-revenue companies to sample term sheets and advice on a wide variety of topics. Thoroughly recommended. 

SourceClear Diary of a Startup (May)

June 5, 2007

First off you will notice this is the Diary entry for May and not weeks six to ten. Weekly entries were simply becoming onerous. Secondly you will notice I am still late. Nothing changes!
Bootstrapping Was Yesterday - I Want to Move Faster!
It has been a frustrating month to say the least. If I look at the big [...]

SecurityLinkUp is Now Open Source

May 25, 2007

An update to the ongoing story of SecurityLinkUp (last update here).
This application was designed to be a simple free application to manage face-to-face meetings for security folks around the world; community groups, product user groups etc. Having spoken to a number of potential user groups who have all been very positive we have gathered some [...]

SourceClear Diary of a Startup – Week 6

May 15, 2007

This week focuses on the frustration of small agile development projects and thinking about the competitive landscape.
Last week I posted a very simple Diary of a Startup blog that summed up exactly the week we had.
You can have software that is Fast, Cheap and Good but you can’t have all three at once.

To [...]

Security LinkUp

May 11, 2007

This blog is an update on Security LinkUp, a free application and service to manage face-to-face security groups such as local community groups, product user groups, training sessions or just plain old get together’s over a beer like CitySec. We support the notion of Communities which have Groups that hold Meetings.
If you run a security community and [...]

SourceClear Diary of a Startup Week 4

May 1, 2007

Every week I start to write the next episode in this series I want to start with a few comments about how I wish days had 40 hours and weeks had 20 days. I think by now it’s well understood (by me and this blogs readers) that there will never be enough hour’s in a day [...]

Great Start-up Tips from Istanbul

April 24, 2007

This is well worth a read for any entrepreneur.

SourceClear Diary of a Startup – Week 3

April 21, 2007

Yes it’s Tuesday and I am manipulating the date stamp on the blog so it looks like this was posted last Friday. I told you I would be honest! Last week was incredibly busy and we learnt some good lessons.

Superhuman Activity is for Superhuman’s
.NET was the Right Choice
Tortoise and Hare Syndrome
AGILE Development and Product Management
Never Under [...]

SourceClear Diary of a Startup – Week 2

April 15, 2007

What a week. Our first full week in the driving seat. We took yesterday off, went to Albi (hung out in a “salon du the” and gouged on fresh nougatine and hand-made chocolate) and still managed to knock up 80 + hours by Friday night.
Influencers and Interesting Early Stage Business Models
We have pitched our ideas to a number [...]