Comments on: Zero to Startup: Product Test in a Weekend

By: Lawn Chair Millionaire

Lawn Chair Millionaire — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:49:36 +0000

Nice tip mate. What ever you have said looks fine , but i am not pretty much sure about this weekend setup.Zero to startup-product test in a weekend looks pretty misleading. Long run matters in business rather depend on short term gains. Any how nice post friend.

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By: Anand Chhatpar

Anand Chhatpar — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:27:35 +0000

I’ve also seen people put photoshopped images of products they are about to create on ebay to see if the auction generates excitement. You can cancel the ebay listing before it closes if you don’t have the product ready. The listing fees for eBay auctions are cheaper than testing on Google Adwords.

By: Andrew Warner

Andrew Warner — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:04:34 +0000

You have a good forum here. Let’s do it.

By: AndrÃ© Nosalsky

AndrÃ© Nosalsky — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:58:36 +0000

Andrew, I’m thinking of doing a project in public so that others can follow along.

By: Andrew Warner

Andrew Warner — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:26:15 +0000

Sounds smart and easy.

AndrÃ© could you give some examples of Web sites you’ve built using this cheap and quick system?

By: Buddy

Buddy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:57:00 +0000

Looks like somone took a page out of 4-Hour Work Week

By: Michael Sitarzewski

Michael Sitarzewski — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:43:20 +0000

Having been a part of Startup Weekend, I can tell you that there is quite a difference between two or 3 people and “build it in a weekend,” and having 70 people build it in a weekend. The entrepreneurial energy there was, as I recall someone else saying, palpable.

I’ve done two other startups in 24 hours or so, one was a dating site in 1997 (we exited in 99), and the other was not too long ago (http://grillm.com). The differences between the two types of ventures are far too involved to get into here, but the summary would be that the quick test over a weekend with a few people builds/tests a product or maybe even a feature.

Seventy people in a room with everything from legal, to biz dev, creative, marketing, development (both front end and back end groups) is that we built a company, complete with vision (2.0, 3.0, etc.) and a complete revenue model (advertising, pro, and white label) built a business.

As a matter of fact, we have everything we need to get in front of investors. Oh, wait, they were there too!