Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
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Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
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Re: Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
#2My Odd Startup!
One guy, no VC, patience, problem identified, for solution, crucial secret sauce found and scalable, production quality code written, alpha test in progress, meager burn rate, no users or revenue yet.
Problem? One where the first good solution should be a "must have" for nearly everyone on the Internet.
Solution? An excellent solution now with a high technological barrier to entry and later with some strong network effects.
Solution appears to the users as just a simple Web site that looks good on everything with a Web browser up to date as of maybe 10 years ago and from just 24,000 programming language statements.
Platform? Microsoft's .NET Framework 4.0 with ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Visual Basic .NET, and a little use of C via platform invoke.
Potential? If people like the solution, then in line to be the first company worth $1T.
Re: Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
#3My Odd Startup! One guy, no VC, patience, problem identified, for solution, crucial secret sauce found and scalable, production quality code written, alpha test in progress, meager burn rate, no users or revenue yet. Problem? One where the first good solution should be a "must have" for nearly everyone on the Internet. Solution? An excellent solution now with a high technological barrier to entry and later with some…
Why on earth would you use VB.Net for something new?
Re: Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
#4My Odd Startup! One guy, no VC, patience, problem identified, for solution, crucial secret sauce found and scalable, production quality code written, alpha test in progress, meager burn rate, no users or revenue yet. Problem? One where the first good solution should be a "must have" for nearly everyone on the Internet. Solution? An excellent solution now with a high technological barrier to entry and later with some…
Why on earth would you use VB.Net for something new?
To just get it done? To win dirty? To just ship it? Why would a carpenter have to learn masonry to build a house? Because it makes for a better house? He might never make the house, better to build it out of wood.
Re: Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
#5I like the takeaways, but the no VC seems to be quite an exaggeration.
They invested temporary resources (design, frontend) and a full-time salary (mine) into Snipcart, our developer-first e-commerce platform.
Re: Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
#6My Odd Startup! One guy, no VC, patience, problem identified, for solution, crucial secret sauce found and scalable, production quality code written, alpha test in progress, meager burn rate, no users or revenue yet. Problem? One where the first good solution should be a "must have" for nearly everyone on the Internet. Solution? An excellent solution now with a high technological barrier to entry and later with some…
Why on earth would you use VB.Net for something new?
Because you use the tool you know best.
Re: Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
#7Being a solopreneur, I am a one man startup.
Re: Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
#8Sure, there are now dozens of e-commerce solutions similar to Snipcart. Yet there is 0 business like ours.
It sounds like Snipcart are doing something very similar to Moltin (https://moltin.com), which is a YC company.
Re: Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
#9So it is 4 guys not 3 1/2 just because you don't work full time doesnt me youre 1/2 a person?
Re: Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
#10I like the takeaways, but the no VC seems to be quite an exaggeration. They invested temporary resources (design, frontend) and a full-time salary (mine) into Snipcart, our developer-first e-commerce platform.
That's not venture capital, that's a bit of boost at the front, and most of it not in money. They didn't say they self-financed all of it, just that they did not take on any venture capital.