In the road to sillicon valley

We hope to reach there

http://www.roadtosiliconvalley.nl/

Doing a Programing Maraton

Since yesterday i am in middle from a programing maraton to test our model.
It's going pretty well...

Well i have to say that rails is awsome and i have a very cool book to help out.

"Agile Web Development with Rails"

From: Sam Ruby
Dave Thomas
David Heinemeier Hansson


I advise this book to every one,that wants to learn rails.

IN CRC 2010

The 1st session was very good

"Internet: de curiosidade a infra-estrutura crítica - o desafio da escala José Legatheaux Martins, UNL"

http://crc2010.di.uminho.pt/crc2010_programa.html

The rest of presentations of the morning weren't special, in fact were only mediocre.

But we can't ask to much from mastership students and projects that due portugal scale are more to use european funds than make science.

A receipe for a good Businessplan

There are different interpretations why a Business Plan is needed.

1) to convince Investors to invest on your idea

2)Proof of good Planning

What Prof.Faltin suggests is that the value of a business plan is actually the Thinkprocess, that has to start by doing such a plan. The attempt to understand the market and then try to make a better proposal, to do a concept which offers more efficient Entepreneurial Design is CRUCIAL!

I actually like this interpretation more than to guess about financial amounts 3 or 5 years ahead.
Its like Lotto!

Anyway a plan should contain this:

1) Summary(which contains only important points from the rest)

2) Company description

3) Product description (business model)

4) Key Persons

5) Market analysis

6) Sales and Marketing

7) Production

8) Milestones

9) Budget(financial planning)

10) Finances

11)Attachment

2) Company description
2.1 Date of creation and cause of the company

2.2 what can it do? Why is it good for Clients?

!!Facts and dont get philosophical!!!

2.3 Names of owners + capital in % of each

2.4Companys goals
long term vision
technical goals

3) Marketanalysis

3.1 Description of the market

3.2 defintion of the market

spacial (part of Germany,europe world)

whats our spectrum?

3.3 Markettrends & Customer potential ( http://www.entrepreneurshipinabox.com/364/understanding-customer-needs-will-increase-business-potential-energy/ - http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-of-Understanding-Your-Customer-Data&id=2036241)

-description of the demand determinant factors

-growth

3.4 description of relevant Marketsegments
-Definition of Marketsegments(goal customers)

-Definition of Market tendencies

-description of Future evolution of the market

-From the market analysis deduct the sales output and the sales volume

3.2 What kind of customer problem is solved? or in our case what kind of needs are satisfied?

how is the problem solved until now?(what is the state of the art)

what is the new innovation?why is the problem better solved?

Who are our competitors?why are they so good?why are we better?

!!competition always exists,a customer is free to do what ever he wants it doesnt have to be neccesarily exaclty the same business.In other words even newspapers or the whole website are our competitors!!BUT we can concentrate on the most important ones.

4)Key People

Management:
education,special knowledge,practical work (technical knowledge,Market knowledge and customer contacts)

why are they good for our business

Extern People

special knowledge

what are their dues and why?

5) important numbers

for 3-5 years

volume of sales, profit and deficit, annual rate of return,Coworkers

6) Marketing

possible cooperations

aquisition of pilot customers

7)long-term goals

We are using Ruby on rails

There is a very cool page to learn ruby on rails by screen cast and Ryan Bates explains very well.


http://railscasts.com/


There are very good episodes like:

To do registrations:

http://railscasts.com/episodes/209-introducing-devise
http://railscasts.com/episodes/210-customizing-devise

Make Forms:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/217-multistep-forms

Make Charts:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/223-charts

There is also tons of cool stuf there that people interested in use rails should see.

Then if you want to see the same screen casts only in text you can use.

http://asciicasts.com/

Very cool.

Finally there is a webpage that has screen casts from many people and many languages you should check it out.

http://www.learnivore.com/search


Miguel

About what we should ask ourselves critical questions!

1) What does the competition really offers?is it good enough?what do we offer that is that better?

2)Why would the user prefer us?what is the underlying magic?what are the barriers to enter in the market?

3)What is our target group?

4)how do we get from it what we want?

5)What is really YOUR motivation behind this? why are YOU doing that exactly?

6)how do we scale it and how do we keep it alive?

7)what do we want to achieve with our site?

8)why would a user stay on our site for hours?

9)what is our goal?

Please come up with more questions about our idea and write them down! it would do the innovation process more efficient and quicker!

defy the conventional and think different.Dont be afraid of polarizing people.

One important message from Guy Kawasaki "Dont let bozos get you down,follow your idea!!"

Some questions, we all should have clear answers to!

There are some really good ideas:

http://betapitch.de/

http://www.entrepreneurship.de/
http://fu-faltin.de/
http://www.teekampagne.de/de-de/1_4/unser-unternehmen.html

http://www.gruendung.tu-berlin.de/191.html
http://www.gruendung.tu-berlin.de/291.html#787

watch the videos!