1. Brighton Tuttle Club – coworking for Brighton startups

    The Brighton Tuttle Club is changing.

    As of tomorrow I’ll be focusing the weekly coworking meet on local startups, making a time for them to get together and work in the same space, meet each other, maybe collaborate, or help each other out.

    Brighton Tuttle

    So if you’re a startup, or you’ve got something you want to try and build, come along and say hi.

    We meet upstairs at Cafe Delice (map) at 10am every Friday and tend to go on most of the day (but starting early is best!). We’re a small but very welcoming group, with varying levels of experience, and are all at different stages in the lives of our projects.

    Signup on Upcoming.org.

    There’s also a mailing list for chat between meets, once you’ve been along you’ll get an invite to join that too :)

    Posted August 13, 2009 in the Business, Entrepreneurship, Projects category, with the tags: , , , , , , and 1 comment

  2. The Perfect Web-app Startup

    This is just a list of the things I reckon make the right web-app to build as a startup.

      Techie Stuff

    1. only needs a small team. 1-3 people
    2. can go from concept to live in under 3 months
    3. can be bootstrapped, built in spare time
    4. provides a comprehensive and flexible API
    5. doesn’t need to create new technologies

      6. External Interests

    6. doesn’t rely on partners or third parties to work (or is flexible enough to switch easily)
    7. is all about collecting, arranging and presenting data
    8. true viral characteristics

      9. Ideal Business Stuff

    9. fills a user need
    10. can be plugged into existing sites/communities
    11. allows others to monetise or add value to their sites or businesses
    12. (11a). bridges sites or businesses together to create new models and/or revenue streams

      13. ..And on a personal note

    13. holds your interest for long enough to see it through
    14. has emotional attachment for the team, you’ve got to love what you’re doing!

    In the past I’ve chosen the wrong projects to follow, and more recently I’m presented with a very long list of potential ideas to make a go of. I hope the above list will help in the very early “where do I start?” stages of a startup web-app.

    Comment with your additions or things you think aren’t that important, this must be something many of us have to deal with, how do we make the right choice? And conversely sometimes we can have the best idea in the world and just start blindly building without taking some important aspects into consideration, pause for a second and evaluate before getting caught up in the excitement.

    UPDATE: (blatant plug) I’ve recently started offering my time consulting on this subject, get in touch if you want to have a chat about your project!

    UPDATE 2: (another blatant plug) I think we’ve met these points with likeGinger.

    Posted September 17, 2007 in the Entrepreneurship category, with the tags: , , , , , and 7 comments