Daily Archive for February 6th, 2007

6 Startup Lessons For The Year 2007

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Read/Write Web - 6 Startup Lessons For The Year 2007

A great list of things I need to follow for the startup. Pretty much puts into paragraph form I’ve been thinking about what I need to do for a startup.

One thing that I disagree on is the idea of the small niche market. The example used in this article was a community of Persian cat owners. Even though there might be a thousand people out there interested in such a site, how incredibly difficult would it be to reach them? Where’s the advertising budget on this one? Don’t even bring up “word-of-mouth” advertising… it’s not like you have a small town of Persian cat owners.

My belief is that there are small markets that actually are too small. Prices on hosting and other costs in creating an application is dropping, but who’s going to know about these tiny TINY applications. (Mind you, I’m talking about social networking sites… B2B is another story… which is where I might consider going into…)

I would add this to the list:

  1. Monetization Where the heck is the money?

YouTube was able to sell for a ridiculous price tag, but they’re still (written in Oct 2006) not that profitable. If they do start advertising pre and post clips, chances are the community that came with that $1.65 billion price tag will start to leave to the likes of dailymotion or metacafe.

I believe that passion to develop the product is the most important thing a startup can have. It’s not always about the money; in fact, it shouldn’t be. It should be to create what the users want, and make the world a better place.

But seriously, someone’s gotta pay for the bandwidth, the coding monkeys… This is why I’m holding off on a lot of my projects until I figure out how to actually monetize on it. And until I learn Ruby on Rails fully. Here’s a lovely reading on the subject.

Learning to Breathe - Switchfoot

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Hello, good morning, how ya do? What makes your rising sun so new? I could use a fresh beginning too All of my regrets are nothing new

So this is the way that I say that I need You This is the way This is the way

That I’m learning to breathe I’m learning to crawl I’m finding that You and You alone can break my fall I’m living again, awake and alive I’m dying to breathe in these abundant skies

Hello, good morning, how ya been? Yesterday left my head kicked in I never thought I could fall like that Never knew that I could hurt this bad

I’m learning to breathe I’m learning to crawl I’m finding that You and You alone can break my fall I’m living again, awake and alive I’m dying to breathe in these abundant skies

So this is the way that I say that I need You This is the way That I say I love You This is the way That I say I’m Yours This is the way This is the way

I tried bolding passages that applied. But then I realized… wow, the entirety of this song speaks volumes. All the way from the “good morning” to “I never thought I could fall like that/Never knew that I could hurt so bad” to “You alone can break my fall” to… okay, what am I doing.

The most important part: “I’m living again, awake and alive/I’m dying to breathe in these abundant skies”.

Somehow… God instilled within me a sense of greater peace than I’ve ever felt. All the bitterness, the sorrow, the anger… it just disappeared. I feel alive.

I saw how wrong I was. I saw how selfish my desires were in all of my relationships. Now the only problem is… I can’t tell those people.

Love through silence. This has got to be the hardest kind of love I’ve experienced. That and to love through all things.

Thank you, LORD.

Tomorrow starts yet another day, another month, another year… whatever frame of time you want to call it. A fresh beginning is coming. My regrets are nothing new, but through it… I get to say that I need You.

This song is going to be on repeat for a LONG time.

Time and Love

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God spoke to me, this morning… and I was able to gain a bit more understanding in my relational situations.

Time. Can it really heal all wounds? It’s been many days… many weeks… many months, it feels like…

Time has definitely been one of the factors in seeking some type of resolution to these issues. But I disagree with time being anywhere near the most important thing there is to heal my wounds.

I think the most important factor in all of this is… love.

Through time, love can grow. Mere acquaintances grow into friends, friends grow into even closer friends.

Time, though, can also cause relationships to die. An example: two friends have a fight. Whatever the reason might be, and also depending on how close these friends were and how large the fight was, without the proper release of tension, time can only further exacerbate the relationship.

Love through silence. I don’t know if this is even possible. It’s almost like faith without deeds. Sure, deeds don’t mean one has faith, but without those deeds, it’s as if faith doesn’t exist. Love without time and words…

But the really hard situation is when those two friends can’t talk. Either one doesn’t want to talk to the other, or both have mutually decided against communicating. While time might be healing the wounds of both parties, time actually, and most likely, is make things worse.

One could still be in pain, and be unable to talk. One could be completely fine, unaware of the pain the other carries. One could just be saying to themselves that they’re fine, while they still carry the sorrow.

The main point is that both parties don’t know what the other is feeling.

Yes, it depends on how close these two people were, but man… without the proper release of tension… hmm…

Solution is simple: Love. Don’t stop loving. Love until you can’t love, and then love some more.

Stop thinking about how you’ve hurt others or how others have hurt you.

I was the one that hurt. I was the one that got hurt. If I think this way, I can do something about it, since the subject of these sentences are “I”.

Being able to love someone without thinking about how they’ve hurt… being able to love someone without thinking about how they’re continuing to hurt…

What’s the application from this? Well, for me… I can’t do a single thing. Frustrating, yes, but I’m finally finding peace through God every single day. Sometimes, I do kid myself: I’m still in quite a bit of shock and anger and pain. However, the more time passes by… the more understanding God instills within me… peace follows.

Now, to fight. To work. To take over the world.

Morning Prayer?

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I’m really not sure about actually going IN to morning prayer. If I had people to pray with, I’d definitely go in… but going alone… doesn’t really seem like there’s anything else to it.

But truly, getting up early in the morning to pray and to read the Bible… definitely one of the most incredible feelings afterwards.

Wednesdays, I’ll go in, since it’s small group day… but other than that, I guess I’ll continue my routine. And yesterday, I found out I just couldn’t find parking… so there goes that early WIMPE idea.

Meh.