Most people I know don't like their job or their job doesn't pay enough. The traditional answer to this is, "Why don't you start your own business?" Well, there's lots of reasons why this isn't practical, but the main are that 1) it's expensive, 2) it's scary, and 3) it's exhausting.
I was thinking about this and had an idea.
I call it Startup School. It's a club where once a month we get together on a Friday night and start a business. It's like a reality-TV challenge. We only have that one weekend to do it. Friday is spent coming up with ideas and picking one; Saturday we execute it; Sunday the business launches.
The key idea is that by bringing people together with different backgrounds and skills, we have a better chance of coming up with a good idea than if four web people (like programmers and designers) sat down and came up with an idea that appealed to only programmers and designers. Like, everyone can participate! And the better the variety of talent, the better the final idea.
It's more of a think tank than a web development team.
(A quick note: I keep talking about the web because I'm comfortable with the web. Maybe another idea would work better. I like it because the web is cheap and fast. Each business costs less than $100 to put together, and if it's a great idea, someone with many millions will want to buy it from us. But there's other options too.)
Anyway, so we come up with an idea for a business and work all weekend and it launches. Now what? Well, we've got a month to check on it and when the next month comes around we talk about it and start another business. Nobody has to participate in each one. Maybe you get attached to the business we made last month and want to run with it and improve it. Great. You've done it, you've got your own business and we're partners.
I have some ideas about splitting up the profit shares so that nobody gets screwed for doing all the work and nobody gets a free ride, but that can wait till some other time. Needless to say, if you're in the startup group and the business profits, you'll get money even if you abandon it, and vice versa, if you come on later and keep the business running, you'll get profits too.
Startup School is about investing a weekend, having fun, and maybe getting a huge payoff somewhere down the road.
What do you think, would you be interested in Startup School? I think 3 to 6 people would be an awesome group. If we have more, we could split it up into two groups working on different ideas.
I was thinking about this and had an idea.
I call it Startup School. It's a club where once a month we get together on a Friday night and start a business. It's like a reality-TV challenge. We only have that one weekend to do it. Friday is spent coming up with ideas and picking one; Saturday we execute it; Sunday the business launches.
The key idea is that by bringing people together with different backgrounds and skills, we have a better chance of coming up with a good idea than if four web people (like programmers and designers) sat down and came up with an idea that appealed to only programmers and designers. Like, everyone can participate! And the better the variety of talent, the better the final idea.
It's more of a think tank than a web development team.
(A quick note: I keep talking about the web because I'm comfortable with the web. Maybe another idea would work better. I like it because the web is cheap and fast. Each business costs less than $100 to put together, and if it's a great idea, someone with many millions will want to buy it from us. But there's other options too.)
Anyway, so we come up with an idea for a business and work all weekend and it launches. Now what? Well, we've got a month to check on it and when the next month comes around we talk about it and start another business. Nobody has to participate in each one. Maybe you get attached to the business we made last month and want to run with it and improve it. Great. You've done it, you've got your own business and we're partners.
I have some ideas about splitting up the profit shares so that nobody gets screwed for doing all the work and nobody gets a free ride, but that can wait till some other time. Needless to say, if you're in the startup group and the business profits, you'll get money even if you abandon it, and vice versa, if you come on later and keep the business running, you'll get profits too.
Startup School is about investing a weekend, having fun, and maybe getting a huge payoff somewhere down the road.
What do you think, would you be interested in Startup School? I think 3 to 6 people would be an awesome group. If we have more, we could split it up into two groups working on different ideas.
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jesus_smash:
Man, I wish I lived near you guys, cause I'd totally want to get in on that.
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