Comments on: My first idea – The beginning http://www.QuebecValley.com/2007/05/18/my-first-idea-the-beginning/ The Internet Startup Valley in Quebec Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:41:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Denis http://www.QuebecValley.com/2007/05/18/my-first-idea-the-beginning/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Denis Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:27:50 +0000 http://QuebecValley.com/2007/05/18/my-first-idea-the-beginning/#comment-8 Thanks Heri, I appreciate your help and I will make sure to apply them in my future startup, which I actually started this week..! I decided to also apply some of Guy Kawazaki's principles. No business plan, a little bit of research and thinking and then the coding phase. There is already one competitor in my field but as you said, we don't have exactly the same vision so I think I will go ahead. Competition can be seen as a good thing and sometimes, being the first doesn't give you an advantage. For example, where are all the 1st generation social networks now? How about Webcrawler, Hotbot, Altavista? All great search engines that were popular a few years ago now vanished... So I think I have a chance, especially since Quebec is bilingual and "my competitor" is focusing on the USA. We'll see... if things go well, we might meet at the next DemoCamp :) Thanks Heri, I appreciate your help and I will make sure to apply them in my future startup, which I actually started this week..!

I decided to also apply some of Guy Kawazaki’s principles. No business plan, a little bit of research and thinking and then the coding phase.

There is already one competitor in my field but as you said, we don’t have exactly the same vision so I think I will go ahead. Competition can be seen as a good thing and sometimes, being the first doesn’t give you an advantage. For example, where are all the 1st generation social networks now? How about Webcrawler, Hotbot, Altavista? All great search engines that were popular a few years ago now vanished… So I think I have a chance, especially since Quebec is bilingual and “my competitor” is focusing on the USA.

We’ll see… if things go well, we might meet at the next DemoCamp :)

]]> By: heri http://www.QuebecValley.com/2007/05/18/my-first-idea-the-beginning/comment-page-1/#comment-7 heri Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:00:44 +0000 http://QuebecValley.com/2007/05/18/my-first-idea-the-beginning/#comment-7 hi denis, my advice on new ideas is to talk about it as much as possible. go to see other people working on the web. go to barcamps. go to the next montreal tech entrepreneur breakfast. (if you are in montreal) you will find valuable feedback, maybe other people who want to join in as well. often, entrepreneurs don't want to talk about their idea. but most of the time, someone else has already though about the idea. and even if you are the first one to think about a brand new application, don't be afraid to talk about it. noone will be able to copy it. they don't have the same background as you. they won't have the same vision. by the way, if it's your first idea, a good idea is to start small. get the core. build it. test. rinse. and repeat the cycle. otherwise you will spend months and years building your "perfect" web service (just like mycarpoolstation.com which is a bright idea, but took too much time) hi denis,

my advice on new ideas is to talk about it as much as possible. go to see other people working on the web. go to barcamps. go to the next montreal tech entrepreneur breakfast. (if you are in montreal)

you will find valuable feedback, maybe other people who want to join in as well.

often, entrepreneurs don’t want to talk about their idea. but most of the time, someone else has already though about the idea. and even if you are the first one to think about a brand new application, don’t be afraid to talk about it. noone will be able to copy it. they don’t have the same background as you. they won’t have the same vision.

by the way, if it’s your first idea, a good idea is to start small. get the core. build it. test. rinse. and repeat the cycle. otherwise you will spend months and years building your “perfect” web service (just like mycarpoolstation.com which is a bright idea, but took too much time)

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