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  Outcomes vs. Activity

  some great articles on that site... not going to be a very productive morning for me I think

  Posted 12 Aug 07 in Entrepreneurs 2.0

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  Want to bite someone? Yeah me too.. (Outsourcing work, Insourcing Frustration)

  Hrmm.. I don't have a test strategy.. We also cut corners on version control and were too brief in terms of our coding standard. Ahh hindsight.. 

   Our guys do provide a 90 warranty on the code for any bugs once signed off... its just that getting it to a standard where I'm happy to have the public see it has been like juggling fish.

  Posted 19 Apr 07 in Entrepreneurs 2.0

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  Getting Started....

  My advice* is just start building, get your potential customers involved EARLY and worry about the money later...

  Each time our project was about to get canned through lack of money to move forward, money just appeared- connections got made, people became involved. Actually 'looking' for money was a total waste of time. The moment we stopped looking, it just seemed to be much more accessible...We're still undercapitalised, but we continue to have enough to push forward.

  Esp. if your idea is web based, get your potential customers in front of screen mockups and find out how they're going to use it... we didn't do this initially (were much too over protective of the concept in retrospect) and this cost us literally 10s if not 100s of hours of wasted development (stuff we thought was super... that no one else cared about..) 

  *My business is still in development, so take this advice with a grain of salt

  Posted 19 Apr 07 in Entrepreneurs 2.0

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  Pitch your idea

  There was a 'cutting edge' telephony idea about 18 months ago that was being trialled at a university here in aus.. the concept was similar, basically a phone number that was bound to a url- put the url into your phone it calls the business, put it into your browser you see the site. One piece of information, allowing multiple contact points. Can't recall the name of it though...

  Posted 19 Apr 07 in Entrepreneurs 2.0

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  Beta Testers - The List

  Add me too please. Very busy for the next 2-3 weeks with a beta roll out of my own, but after that will have a bit more time to contribute. Would also love to get some feedback on our beta once its up

  Posted 09 Apr 07 in Beta Testers

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  Click to Call- Know someone?

  Hey all, just wondering if anyone here knows where I can get my hands on a click to call application / plugin or similar.

  Needs to work something like this in practice http://www.accesscanberra.com.au 

  My developers don't have any experience with voip... and I don't really want to contract someone to build it from the ground up... I was hoping for an off the shelf solution, but I haven't been able to find any that are setup for australia.

  (Theres one or two softare companies that offer the service as a one off for your 'business website', but at $30 - $50 setup plus monthly fees.. puh-leeze!) 

  Need a very scaleable solution.. any advice is very welcome!

   

  Posted 01 Apr 07 in General Conversation

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  How do you feed yourself during startup?

  Hey guys. I'm finding a night job is a good way to keep the hounds at bay. Was living off the company for a while.. but being cashflow negative with only a small capital reserve really ups the stress levels IMO. Better to just get no sleep, have no spare time and be just barely cashflow neutral Nice to know theres a few extra bucks there for marketing too  if/when its needed Interesting feeling being boss by day, and pleb by night though  

  Posted 31 Mar 07 in Entrepreneurs 2.0