Comments on: 10 Vital Lessons for Web Start-Ups

By: Web & Graphic Designer

Web & Graphic Designer — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:17:22 +0000

Hi, I never realized you guys we in Bath, If ever I get some complex web work come up, maybe I should give you guys a shout, I can only do static stuff, so any dynamic work I may be able to shove your way. Matt.

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By: Gavin May

Gavin May — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:31:03 +0000

Great info. The information relating to the payment processing was helpful to me and my fledgling web start-up.

By: DerrickSnow8955

DerrickSnow8955 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:02:50 +0000

I wish had seen this article when I first started. it would have saved me a lott of gried

By: John Clerks

John Clerks — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:09:31 +0000

Thanks for nice posting for startups companies which caters to product development. I will keep reading your future articles…….

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Kick-Ass Squeeze – August 2009 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:33:19 +0000

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By: Josh Appling

Josh Appling — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:46:52 +0000

I just wanted to say thank for a great article. I am getting ready to launch a business and I found a lot of useful information in here. I have been so upside down trying to figure out what to do next, and this article has convinced me that building a business from the ground up doesn’t necessarily mean you have to do it all yourself…

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:05:42 +0000

Henrique, never fully automate – don’t do that when it comes to handling customer feedback!

By: Henrique

Henrique — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:55:42 +0000

I agree, automation is the key of a web business… Is important to plan, design and create web apps that could be fully automated.

Good vision Julia and Drew

By: Alexander Bickov

Alexander Bickov — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:33:20 +0000

Thanks for educational post

By: Gennice

Gennice — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:18:00 +0000

Wow! Some really great advice here! I’m currently in learning process of these things, but at some point I plan to launch my web app too. Hope it works well! :)

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By: deltacubed web design

deltacubed web design — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:09:00 +0000

Thanks for this article. As a start up myself, I know how much of it rings true!
The item that really stuck out for me was #3 – about customer support. Most of the other items are internal issues or at least fairly transparent to the client, whereas customer support is always vital and can win or lose you further business and, more importantly, word of mouth recommendations. Cheers, @deltacubed.

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By: Most Interesting Ideas

Most Interesting Ideas — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:52:17 +0000

Thanks for useful lessons

By: Alex Elderfield

Alex Elderfield — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:07:18 +0000

Drew,

Any suggestions on how I can attract a few small business beta testers to http://www.BookingTakers.com? As this is still a beta site I don’t want to advertise yet as I’d like to get some initial feedback and fix the obvious issues first.

rgds/alex

By: Alex Elderfield

Alex Elderfield — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:04:50 +0000

I so agree with you about #10 Hire in the Experts. I started writing http://www.OpenYourDiary.com on my own partly to learn Ruby on Rails but really to cut costs. While this worked, I discovered that hiring a couple of Russian freelancers via oDesk got things moving a lot faster and to a far higher standard. It also gave me time to work on the other sides of the business.

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By: Mohan Arun L

Mohan Arun L — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:51:02 +0000

This discussion may be interesting in this context
http://www.businessinsider.com/dont-launch-2009-3

By: Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:43:35 +0000

We’ve only really been promoting through Twitter (I’m @drewm) and via the odd blog post. I seem to recall that I just tweeted saying I made a thing, and people came and looked. It was pretty easy.

By: Syd Salmon

Syd Salmon — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:40:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing your insights. The payment provider discussion was especially useful for me.

By: Ola Ayeni

Ola Ayeni — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:08:40 +0000

Hi Drew, congratulations and thank you for a great share. I am also working on launching a twitter app and was wondering if you can talk more about your launch strategy. Ok, you have a good product but how did you launch it? Did you start out using a blog , invite bloggers to beta or just do the old Pr and customers start coming…..

I am looking to learn and thanks for sharing.

Ola
@mytweetdine

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Building an edge to your website — webdesignability.com — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:29:41 +0000

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By: Mark Nutter

Mark Nutter — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:18:54 +0000

“That’s not to say that I don’t think that CMS’ have room to grow”

I acknowledge this, but what I’m saying is that in general, most CMS’ are pretty similar these days. I’ve yet to see something truly innovative in a long time. Just sayin’..

By: Maicon Sobczak

Maicon Sobczak — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:45:05 +0000

Thank you for share your experiences.

By: Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:44:32 +0000

The sort of Mom and Pop-friendly CMS you dream of will always be a long way off if we all stop innovating and moving CMSs forward. If the solutions out there don’t meet certain needs, then there’s a market for a product in that same category that does meet those needs.

By: Mark Nutter

Mark Nutter — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:34:44 +0000

I’m going to have to disagree with you about adding more CMS’s to the vast pool out there. There comes a time when enough is enough. The last thing we need is another CMS or Project management tool in the market. I think it’s very natural for web development companies to offer their CMS or CRM as a paid product because it’s already built and works well in house. The problem with CMS’s and CRM’s is that every organizations work flow varies so greatly that its impossible to be all things to all companies.

There are lots of other problems to solve and interesting tools to create out there and I just shake my head when I see yet another CRM or CMS. That’s not to say that I don’t think that CMS’ have room to grow – the holy grail would be a CMS that Mom and Pop can design a slick looking website with. That’s a long ways off, though, and most of the CMS’ I see being created these days are basically the exact same as everything else. Maybe HTML5 will change things, who knows. Anyways, that’s my two cents. The advice in this post is solid, otherwise.

By: Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:01:46 +0000

Great points, Julia. Automation is really key as you want to reduce the amount of work and cost associated with any one purchase. The perfect business model reduces costs and effort to zero, I guess!