Evan Williams on Startups
Evan Williams Ten Rules for Startups came to me yesterday. Wisdom!
- Be Narrow
- Be Different
- Be Casual
- Be Picky
- Be User-Centric
- Be Self-Centered
- Be Greedy
- Be Tiny
- Be Agile
- Be Balanced
- (bonus!): Be Wary
By Evan’s scale, iotum is doing pretty well. We’re not about casual content creation, so we fail on number 3. We score well on all the others. I’d add one more too:
12. Be Parsimonious (ok, cheap!). Cash is king. We buy office equipment and furniture from bankruptcy sales. We buy from EBay for most other stuff. We ran our company with a single Vonage line for 18 months. We drive to meetings (when possible) rather than fly. Better yet, we use Live Meeting, rather than have the meeting. We make extensive use of hotwire.com to book hotels. We became travel agents ourselves in order to get the agent discount when booking travel. There are a million ways to save money, and every one helps.
We took a seed investment in June 2004, and stretched it to June 2005 when the original budget had it running out in February 2005. That’s how cheap we are.
November 29th, 2005 at 6:29 pm
[...] Alec Saunders adds his 12th rule to the 11 recently posted by Evan Williams: 12. Be Parsimonious (ok, cheap!). Cash is king. We buy office equipment and furniture from bankruptcy sales. We buy from EBay for most other stuff. We ran our company with a single Vonage line for 18 months. We drive to meetings (when possible) rather than fly. Better yet, we use Live Meeting, rather than have the meeting. We make extensive use of hotwire.com to book hotels. We became travel agents ourselves in order to get the agent discount when booking travel. There are a million ways to save money, and every one helps. [...]
November 30th, 2005 at 8:49 am
10 Rules for Startups
Evan Williams’ Ten Rules for Startups:
Be Narrow
Be Different
Be Casual
Be Picky
Be User-Centric
Be Self-Centered
Be Greedy
Be Tiny
Be Agile
Be Balanced
(bonus!): Be Wary
From Saunderslog
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