I love startups.
There are a plethora of free resources online to help you get started and if the resources you need aren’t free, the costs are minimal since there are so many services offered to help a new site owner get started. The real hurdle is assessing your own resources, defining a need that people have, and coming up with a product or service to fill that need. It can almost be anything because you can make money selling just about anything on the internet. There are many that are service based while some are online retail shops. If you are going to do a online retail site, take into consideration how you will procure and manage inventory, ship products, and offer customer service. If your project is service based, keep in mind what need you are trying to fill and stick with it.
I used to work at the largest domain registrar in the world and having been there for over 5 years I’ve seen the company grow ten fold. Through this explosive growth, I learned a lot about growing a small company fast through great customer service and successful management of people/processes/products.
I’m still learning but now I learn through running my own company with constantly changing dynamics and as a service to others, I’ve started a blog to inspire and help those who also want to do their own thing.
My mind races when it comes to starting businesses or getting consumers online.
Things that interest me:
* End-to-end customer experience advocacy.
* Data mining for customer behavior research.
* Online community forum dynamics
- getting those not interested in participating online - interested.
- allowing the “smarties” to offer their knowledge to the “not so smarties”
- content saturation and the resulting attrition of users