我和一个朋友创建了一家初创公司,但我们都是软件开发人员。我们很快意识到,我们将不得不处理和理解所有错综复杂的业务。
有没有什么资源可以帮助我们避免不懂商业的人遇到的常见问题?你如何平衡创造你的产品和保持现实的目标,以减少上市时间。
这就像你需要摘掉程序员的帽子,戴上商务帽子,反之亦然。
发布于 2009-04-28 15:01:11
我的软件业务是在一个非常,非常小的利基市场,以计算机辅助设计硬盘驱动器中的磁性层(www.micromagnetica.com -请注意,我正在关闭我的业务,因为潜在客户的数量已经减少到使业务无法生存的地步。网站反映了这一点)。我已经做了10年的生意,而且做得很好。我的比赛是一系列商业和开源项目(主要是大学或政府赞助的),所以,虽然市场很小,但我能够创造出一个独特的产品,卖得很好。
陷阱:
- (a) Find a good name for your company and secure your domain name. Even though a bad choice for company name won't kill you (my first company was called "Euxine Technologies" and it doesn't get much worse than that), but my product sold itself and was not encumbered by the name.
- (b) Put together a web site as soon as possible with a good description of your product. Google will eventually find you and traffic will start flowing to your site.
- (c) As soon as you have a working prototype create a mechanism where potential enthusiastic customers can download it and start helping you find bugs. You can make this the full version with a limited time or a limited version with no time limit. I have done both and both work. Make sure that users know it is a beta (or alpha) version of the software. The most important part of creating the beta user relationship is they will ask for features that you did not think about and this could take development along an otherwise unforeseen (and lucrative) path. This will also give you a way to keep your hand on the pulse of potential users.
- (d) If your product is applicable to a particular industry go to relevant conferences(获得一个展位或与潜在客户联系),并通过演示、传单和分发CD形式的免费有限版本软件来销售您的产品。
一旦你开始销售,收入会有季节性的变化。总是试着在银行里存至少6个月的钱,以支付工资和运营成本。
发布于 2009-04-28 12:25:48
谷歌创造一个产品是因为它的技术很酷,而不是因为你想要它,而不是因为你想要它,而不是因为有一个列出你产品功能的网站,而不是在
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发布于 2009-04-28 12:27:22
StartUp俱乐部的第一条规则:每个创业公司都应该既有书呆子又有商人。
大多数电脑书呆子都不知道如何经营业务、营销和销售产品。你的顶层至少应该有一个商人(但要像鹰一样看着他们,以免他们偷走你的劳动成果:-)。
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/797596
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