Ok, I've figured out that I need to click on the permalink to reach the Disqus login…
And now to the main points/questions I wanted to bring up: - I believe that it makes sense to develop a strategic 1-pager, potentially a preamble to a full business plan – to outline the situation (current environment in social media ads), complication (the current ads don't work), question (what is the solution), answer (our offering) – essentially setting up a basic way to think about our solution - I the 1-pager basic things would be outlined – something like the 4Ps – price, product, placement (customers), and promotion - I've never done software/web development – but a requirements definition period makes sense – essentially a blueprint – is this how it typically works?
I apologize if some of my questions are somewhat naive but I want to be perfectly clear as to how we're proceeding.
Sorry for the double post. There seems to be an issue with logging into a Twitter/Facebook account to post – the option comes up only after this type of reply is posted.
Ok, I've figured out that I need to click on the permalink to reach the Disqus login…
And now to the main points/questions I wanted to bring up: - I believe that it makes sense to develop a strategic 1-pager, potentially a preamble to a full business plan – to outline the situation (current environment in social media ads), complication (the current ads don't work), question (what is the solution), answer (our offering) – essentially setting up a basic way to think about our solution - I the 1-pager basic things would be outlined – something like the 4Ps – price, product, placement (customers), and promotion - I've never done software/web development – but a requirements definition period makes sense – essentially a blueprint – is this how it typically works?
I apologize if some of my questions are somewhat naive but I want to be perfectly clear as to how we're proceeding.
My bad Vladimir, looks like using DISQUS moves replies off to another page (although it does email us updates).
You should be able to create an account here (for posting).
A requirements document is a framework for a software group to follow. Since I don’t have any help coding yet, I’m going by what I wrote up in the blog posts as a starting framework. My assumption being that any requirements I could write up now may not hold very long once I learn some more. I think this would work better if additional coders were brought in earlier (I was kinda hoping you’d be willing to learn with me).
I’m much more comfortable with designing/crude code to my ideas than following a requirements doc and coding. But if we do get additional help coding a design plan will be necessary. Hopefully we’ll find more founders that are code focused soon (maybe it should be our first priority). The other option is open source with a GPL or similar license (but one that we can legally found a business with).
Vladimir imagine our potential software startup, what role do you think you could best serve in aiding in it’s growth, acceptance and transference from an abstract idea we chat about to a real product?
Probably stuff we don’t have to worry about until we have a functioning product but it’s better to be open about our business objectives up front.
I’ve been a passionate idea guy for a while now with blogging, and will continue to do so. I can guide software design/architecture as well as marketing efforts. My weaknesses are legal, financial and bureaucratic. I’d rather not be the CFO (chief financial officer) or COO (human resources goto guy). Although I’ll need to know the cash position for the business.
For now I could take the role of CEO/CTO/CIO obviously we’ll want to parse that up to others as we grow. That means we’re going to need CFO/COO and most importantly software developers that understand the fastest way to get information into and out of other web tools, SQL (user profiles), etc.
If we (any founders) diverge in our thinking at any time and we can’t reconcile it, how best do we distribute software and business plans (does every founder get a copy?, what’s to stop one of our founders from leaving right before alpha testing with a copy of the software?).
I understand your point on the requirements document. Once we grow to more than you coding then it will make sense although it probably makes sense to keep some order.
Me coding…I haven’t done any coding since C++ in high school. If you think that would be wise for me to learn then it’s an option – although I’m not sure that’s an efficient spend of my resource (i.e. my time).
I see my self filling multiple roles. I come from a consulting background so COO (operations) would come to me naturally. In addition, marketing and business development (sales) fit well with my core competencies. At this point I hope that we can all be ideas-people as I would like to actively contribute to the whole vision.
I believe that at this point the business plans should be equally shared amongst the group. Hopefully we can lock in NDAs before the real meat of the project is developed so that one would retain his rightful equity share after leaving but would not be able to apply the knowledge learned from this project to other immediate ventures. I think that makes the most sense.
Vlad don’t bother with any coding for now. How’re your diagram/chart making skills? We could use an update to the image I have on my blog. One where we have some dotted box around what we can do.
Vladimir Vukicevic 8:12 pm on June 24, 2009 Permalink
Ok great. This will be a good way to communicate.
Vladimir Vukicevic 8:39 pm on June 24, 2009 Permalink
Ok, I've figured out that I need to click on the permalink to reach the Disqus login…
And now to the main points/questions I wanted to bring up:
- I believe that it makes sense to develop a strategic 1-pager, potentially a preamble to a full business plan – to outline the situation (current environment in social media ads), complication (the current ads don't work), question (what is the solution), answer (our offering) – essentially setting up a basic way to think about our solution
- I the 1-pager basic things would be outlined – something like the 4Ps – price, product, placement (customers), and promotion
- I've never done software/web development – but a requirements definition period makes sense – essentially a blueprint – is this how it typically works?
I apologize if some of my questions are somewhat naive but I want to be perfectly clear as to how we're proceeding.
Vlad 8:11 pm on June 24, 2009 Permalink
Ok great. This will be a good way to communicate.
Vlad 8:15 pm on June 24, 2009 Permalink
Sorry for the double post. There seems to be an issue with logging into a Twitter/Facebook account to post – the option comes up only after this type of reply is posted.
Vladimir Vukicevic 2:12 am on June 25, 2009 Permalink
Ok great. This will be a good way to communicate.
Vladimir Vukicevic 2:39 am on June 25, 2009 Permalink
Ok, I've figured out that I need to click on the permalink to reach the Disqus login…
And now to the main points/questions I wanted to bring up:
- I believe that it makes sense to develop a strategic 1-pager, potentially a preamble to a full business plan – to outline the situation (current environment in social media ads), complication (the current ads don't work), question (what is the solution), answer (our offering) – essentially setting up a basic way to think about our solution
- I the 1-pager basic things would be outlined – something like the 4Ps – price, product, placement (customers), and promotion
- I've never done software/web development – but a requirements definition period makes sense – essentially a blueprint – is this how it typically works?
I apologize if some of my questions are somewhat naive but I want to be perfectly clear as to how we're proceeding.
messel 4:34 am on June 25, 2009 Permalink
My bad Vladimir, looks like using DISQUS moves replies off to another page (although it does email us updates).
You should be able to create an account here (for posting).
A requirements document is a framework for a software group to follow. Since I don’t have any help coding yet, I’m going by what I wrote up in the blog posts as a starting framework. My assumption being that any requirements I could write up now may not hold very long once I learn some more. I think this would work better if additional coders were brought in earlier (I was kinda hoping you’d be willing to learn with me).
I’m much more comfortable with designing/crude code to my ideas than following a requirements doc and coding. But if we do get additional help coding a design plan will be necessary. Hopefully we’ll find more founders that are code focused soon (maybe it should be our first priority). The other option is open source with a GPL or similar license (but one that we can legally found a business with).
Vladimir imagine our potential software startup, what role do you think you could best serve in aiding in it’s growth, acceptance and transference from an abstract idea we chat about to a real product?
Probably stuff we don’t have to worry about until we have a functioning product but it’s better to be open about our business objectives up front.
I’ve been a passionate idea guy for a while now with blogging, and will continue to do so. I can guide software design/architecture as well as marketing efforts. My weaknesses are legal, financial and bureaucratic. I’d rather not be the CFO (chief financial officer) or COO (human resources goto guy). Although I’ll need to know the cash position for the business.
For now I could take the role of CEO/CTO/CIO obviously we’ll want to parse that up to others as we grow. That means we’re going to need CFO/COO and most importantly software developers that understand the fastest way to get information into and out of other web tools, SQL (user profiles), etc.
If we (any founders) diverge in our thinking at any time and we can’t reconcile it, how best do we distribute software and business plans (does every founder get a copy?, what’s to stop one of our founders from leaving right before alpha testing with a copy of the software?).
Vlad 9:12 pm on June 25, 2009 Permalink
I understand your point on the requirements document. Once we grow to more than you coding then it will make sense although it probably makes sense to keep some order.
Me coding…I haven’t done any coding since C++ in high school. If you think that would be wise for me to learn then it’s an option – although I’m not sure that’s an efficient spend of my resource (i.e. my time).
I see my self filling multiple roles. I come from a consulting background so COO (operations) would come to me naturally. In addition, marketing and business development (sales) fit well with my core competencies. At this point I hope that we can all be ideas-people as I would like to actively contribute to the whole vision.
I believe that at this point the business plans should be equally shared amongst the group. Hopefully we can lock in NDAs before the real meat of the project is developed so that one would retain his rightful equity share after leaving but would not be able to apply the knowledge learned from this project to other immediate ventures. I think that makes the most sense.
What do you think?
messel 7:03 am on June 26, 2009 Permalink
Vlad don’t bother with any coding for now. How’re your diagram/chart making skills? We could use an update to the image I have on my blog. One where we have some dotted box around what we can do.
We can have inputs to our software as social media status, comments, or other short form entry.
A user profile is optional (then we’ll have advanced decision making and feedback)
Here’s what I have this morning: http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1127092/IntelligentAdvertisingMediaManager.png
This type of chart will help us move forward and make resource decisions (what we can and can’t do in the near term)