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Which comes first?

  • 24-01-2011 5:34pm
    #1
    JuggleBall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭


    Do you create something and let it develop into a business or do you start the business and then create the something.

    In my case, it's a web application. I have an idea (who doesn't!) for a web application that I am going to develop.

    I can develop it as a hobby, launch it and then turn it into a business if I want it to eventually make money.

    OR

    I can start a business* and then make the web app even though it won't make money at the start (if ever).

    Which is the more common way of doing things? What are you experiences?

    * I don't know anything about starting a business.


Comments

  • #2
    Mozart1986
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭Mozart1986


    Hi dude,

    Sounds like you are a techie, with a passion, and you want to provide a service. What you need to do is work out the business model and this is much easier to do if you bounce the idea off another person you trust and respect and the people you think will want to use the application. Then you need to try to commercialise it without killing it (scaring off your user-base). That is the hard part due to the amount of free software & apps out their at the moment.

    My advice to you is, if you don't know people or are not in the environment where people can help you commercialise the project, then go and find a network or environment and while you are building the product, search for people that can help you commercialise it. Bizminds.org is a young entrepreneurs network and they are meeting in Dublin in the Westbury hotel off Grafton street tomorrow at 7. You might find like-minded people there and get good advice.

    I myself was on the other side of that equation. I had the concept, the business model, and the passion, but I didn't have the technical expertise to get it built. I met an old friend I hadn't seen since I was a teenager after months of banging my head off a brick wall and since then it has been developed massively. I am now just about ready to build it and we have a clear vision for the next few months/years. So other people really can set you off on the right path by providing a valuable alternative perspective.

    Finally, don't be afraid to fail. Take a serious objective look at the product and business model and decide whether it is viable or not. Then go for it with religious zeal or chuck it in the bin. Its go or not, no half measures.

    Goodluck;)


  • #3
    JuggleBall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭JuggleBall


    Thanks for the info. Good post. I'll look into talking to businessy type people and I'll continue on the project for now.


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