Building a start-up : weekly update (1)
This week, I am starting a new series of posts, to keep my readers updated with what’s going on for Notifixious… This will also help me keep track of the different steps and processes and hopefully, you guys might give me some advices and tips!
So, after the fiasco of the “pre-alpha” launch last week, I decided to change the whole architecture of Notifixious but “scattering” the application in 3 big parts. I am also in the process of “redefining” what’s critical, essential or just important to give priorities to the different components of the application. As a result, I am dropping for now the “tags” and changing the user system to use a Rails plugin : “Restful authentication“. I am also building things in a such a way that deployment of additional staging servers under Amazon EC2 will be simple. Hopefully, in next week’s episode, I can say that Notifixio.us is open again for private-alpha testing!
On the business side, this week, I’ve been working on Notifixio.us’ business model and I have to say that I might have found a pretty interesting mix between subscription (a-la-basecamp or dropsend) and advertising for the “free users”. I built an initial financial business plan on the experience (growth rate, conversion rates…) other web services.
Finally, on the administrative (incorporating, visas, accounting), I’ve started to get in touch with a few different lawyers and entrepreneur that have been referred to me by friends here, in San Francisco (Thanks!). I have also taken some time to check what people say about the E2 visa on forums and blogs. I can confirm just one thing : there is no minimal financial investment, … but the range that I could get for “enough” is between 50,000$ and 150,000$. Ouch!
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March 19, 2008 at 5:42 am
[...] it’s only the second episode and I am late, already. It’s actually very very difficult to hold 3 “jobs” at ...