All you need to develop your idea in 54 hours is to be passionate about it, to have a dedicated team and to work in a friendly environment. In fact, we had all of it during the Startup Weekend event in Lund at Ideon Innovation this weekend.
Thanks to the organizers, sponsors and mentors, listed on the event’s webpage, I had three lovely days. After the introduction of the whole “consider the risks, don’t care too much about them and be your own boss” concept, each one of us took on one of the ideas that we shared and liked and started working.
Having Peter Sunde talking about being a rebel, challenging the system and its rules, listening to Sean Duffy and his thoughts on being an entrepreneur, having a break with Clint Nelsen and Alex Falcet and Mattias from JayWay at the stage, wasn’t just fun. It was incredibly inspiring.
Formed the teams, talked about the ideas, got things done, had snacks, salads, drinks and fresh air. In the meantime, got away from our boring day-to-day tasks and solved a problem. Or, at least, found a way to.
Hopefully, this one will be up and running anytime soon. Count me in next time too, guys!
15 April 2010 at 11:55 pm:
I’m so happy you had a great time! So did we. We will definitely do this again next year, but then with a little bit longer preparation time.
We basically did everything in less than 2 months. It was intense – plus we’re doing Stockholm tomorrow *phew!*
Wrt your service: just start adding content. Install google analytics if you haven’t already. Start tracking visitors. Make sure you get incoming links, write, write, write, drive traffic, talk to visitors, reply to comments, listen and respond. Soon enough you will start seeing links and traffic graphs in your sleep.
Once you reach 50K+ visitors per month you can start making a little bit of money on the site. Definitely doable. Then you have a nice side income and more freedom to do other projects or just enjoy life.
Not a Skype-size exit but still, that’s success in my book.
16 April 2010 at 2:44 pm:
Thanks again, Erik!
We’ll definitely work on that. More ideas are popping up. It is doable, for sure, and exciting to see it working.
Good luck with the event in Stockholm! I will be following it online.