Web 2.0 success or failure of an idea ?! Continuation, part 2
Web 2.0 is an idea in itself. This is an attempt to formalize - what are the projects, the basis of which are users and the materials that users post. And by this you can mean anything. Social networks and services, advisory social services (which are trying hard now to defend their right to be called Web 3.0).
Suppose we pointed a finger at the sky and hit a gold mine. Namely, they correctly analyzed the market, saw trends, determined for themselves that our idea has the right to life. What's next? If you yourself have sufficient funds to implement the idea - then proceed immediately to the implementation of the prototype, after you write a financial plan and realize that there are enough funds.
Usually this is not the case.
To do something, you need to have time to develop. This means that you must have monthly and stable money for the most necessary things - food, shelter, clothes. Situations are different for everyone. If you have a mother who feeds and with whom you live - a great option for the implementation of the project :) If there is a business in which your 100% involvement is not required - even more wonderful.
You can do the project at night or on the weekend ... but this immediately increases the risk of its failure.
Therefore, it is immediately worthwhile to evaluate the necessary degree of your involvement in the project and what means are needed to make this involvement possible.
In the case of a programmer who decided to develop his project, the degree of involvement in the project should be 80-90% of the time, at least at the start-up stage.
The degree of involvement of the manager (in this sense, the coordinator of the entire project and performing specific functions - for example, writing technical specifications or materials or - about 50-70% of the time)
Absolutely elementary things are usually not taken into account by either those who are trying to assemble a team for themselves, or those who trying to give the team money so that she completed the project - from here there are gaps.
The main mistake that employers make is the standard methodology for doing business - let's optimize our costs so that we like them. And the trap that such employers fall into - lots of offers on the same free-lance.ru to work for $ 100 - as a result of work in progress and $ 100 * n wasted.
Wise investors require BP and investment calculation. If you reason from the perspective of investors, this is justified, if you reason from the point of view of a viable project, a project driven into the framework of the need to write down the costs by articles and spend only in accordance with these articles is not productive for a startup. The idea should lead, and not what you have written in the budget. A completely different question is that a minimum three-year financial plan must be written. For myself and for the success of the project. Just realize that this is an outfit. That pretense usually diverges from reality and reality is usually tougher than what is written on paper. those. all the costs that you wrote as mandatory must also be multiplied by 1.5 to get approximately what you spend.
The most basic costs are payroll and promotion. Break the project into stages. Each stage should give some kind of response after launch. Write a concept. Do not be afraid at the concept stage to reveal the secrets of your project and share them with the community. Fear of stealing ideas haunts those who understand very little in project implementation. The concept is only the first step to implementation, followed by the ToR, the financial plan (or more broadly - BP), rendering interfaces, design, layout, programming. If your idea is "stolen" no one can better than you realize what you came up with. So no one will “steal an idea” without its carrier. Rather, they will buy you as the bearer of the idea and the person who can bring it to life if the idea seems good.
If you are discussing the concept in communities, do not pay attention to either the positive color of the responses or the negative. Pay attention only to the number of these responses. If there are a lot of responses - most likely the idea is interesting ...
Suppose we pointed a finger at the sky and hit a gold mine. Namely, they correctly analyzed the market, saw trends, determined for themselves that our idea has the right to life. What's next? If you yourself have sufficient funds to implement the idea - then proceed immediately to the implementation of the prototype, after you write a financial plan and realize that there are enough funds.
Usually this is not the case.
To do something, you need to have time to develop. This means that you must have monthly and stable money for the most necessary things - food, shelter, clothes. Situations are different for everyone. If you have a mother who feeds and with whom you live - a great option for the implementation of the project :) If there is a business in which your 100% involvement is not required - even more wonderful.
You can do the project at night or on the weekend ... but this immediately increases the risk of its failure.
Therefore, it is immediately worthwhile to evaluate the necessary degree of your involvement in the project and what means are needed to make this involvement possible.
In the case of a programmer who decided to develop his project, the degree of involvement in the project should be 80-90% of the time, at least at the start-up stage.
The degree of involvement of the manager (in this sense, the coordinator of the entire project and performing specific functions - for example, writing technical specifications or materials or - about 50-70% of the time)
Absolutely elementary things are usually not taken into account by either those who are trying to assemble a team for themselves, or those who trying to give the team money so that she completed the project - from here there are gaps.
The main mistake that employers make is the standard methodology for doing business - let's optimize our costs so that we like them. And the trap that such employers fall into - lots of offers on the same free-lance.ru to work for $ 100 - as a result of work in progress and $ 100 * n wasted.
Wise investors require BP and investment calculation. If you reason from the perspective of investors, this is justified, if you reason from the point of view of a viable project, a project driven into the framework of the need to write down the costs by articles and spend only in accordance with these articles is not productive for a startup. The idea should lead, and not what you have written in the budget. A completely different question is that a minimum three-year financial plan must be written. For myself and for the success of the project. Just realize that this is an outfit. That pretense usually diverges from reality and reality is usually tougher than what is written on paper. those. all the costs that you wrote as mandatory must also be multiplied by 1.5 to get approximately what you spend.
The most basic costs are payroll and promotion. Break the project into stages. Each stage should give some kind of response after launch. Write a concept. Do not be afraid at the concept stage to reveal the secrets of your project and share them with the community. Fear of stealing ideas haunts those who understand very little in project implementation. The concept is only the first step to implementation, followed by the ToR, the financial plan (or more broadly - BP), rendering interfaces, design, layout, programming. If your idea is "stolen" no one can better than you realize what you came up with. So no one will “steal an idea” without its carrier. Rather, they will buy you as the bearer of the idea and the person who can bring it to life if the idea seems good.
If you are discussing the concept in communities, do not pay attention to either the positive color of the responses or the negative. Pay attention only to the number of these responses. If there are a lot of responses - most likely the idea is interesting ...