Budgeting for startup
Budgeting for startup
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- BusterBoy0
Sorry to keep throwing my stuff in here...but wanted to share this part.
2 blokes on our board want us to just “start building something”...even if it means just hiring some Indian subcontractors on Upwork to build something quick and dirty. Despite the fact we don’t have any branding or proper tech employees yet. They think it’s needed to prove to our industry reps and investors that were doing something. Pretty much an alpha version.
I’m not convinced...thoughts?
- If you build it; he will come.utopian
- :)BusterBoy
- Building something quick and dirty can be a good tool to figure out what you really need for the project.palimpsest
- Some people need to see things with their own eyes even if you've explained it to them clearly before.palimpsest
- I don't think it's a good idea to use just to prove you're doing something. That sounds like a waste of resources.palimpsest
- “hiring some Indian subcontractors on Upwork” - good luck with that!mort_
- "hiring some Indian subcontractors on Upwork" - project goes to shit, 1000% guaranteed.sted
- it's called MVP. Yes indian guy on upwork is a quick and dirty solution. You just need a concept not perfectly working product.Beeswax
- It's about helping people figure shit out. This is not the final product. Just be aware of what it is you're doing.palimpsest
- I've built shitty demos for clients that weren't able to even understand a sitemap. It helped them know what the stakes were.palimpsest
- Once they had shit figured out I pointed them towards an agency that could build a proper site. And I kept working with them with the stuff that interested me.palimpsest
- You could do a quick brand sprint to get things moving and create a foundation for future work.Chimp
- What Sted said.microkorg
- My mantra is "making is thinking" - don't get too caught up in try to solve it all beforehand, building quick and dirty will help a lotBaskerviIle
- Just Elizabeth Holmes it, and bullshit the solution for as long as you can.Nairn
- start building something: yes. Hire a random on upwork: no. From too many anecdotes to count, you need a very very well defined spec to farm our dev to India.monNom
- You will get exactly what was in the spec, and it will definitely be late. I don't think this is a mark against India per se I think this is the business model.monNom
- Instead, interview a local coder you can sit with and hash out some thing, let them get started and show you what they can accomplish in a week or two.monNom
- Spend less time writing specs, more time being like water and flowing along the path of least resistance. Once you've got _something_, you can evaluate and planmonNom
- because no first plan survives contact with the enemy.monNom