Saturday, October 13, 2007

Startup cheatsheet(s)

How does one get information about building a startup from an idea in a particular geography? I read a lot of generic stuff about entreprenuership but still haven't come across , what I may call , a " startup cheatsheet" .

A cheatsheet, for the uninitiated, is a documentation of steps to quickly accomplish a task without understanding all the details. For a unix novice, it could be as simple as a set of commands to create a directory structure of required format. The steps you see on the printer dashboard when paper is jammed is another example of a cheat sheet.

Cheat sheets make life easier by saving time and effort on tasks where the result is guaranteed to be repeatable by following the steps. As I think today about launching a startup, I want to focus on two key areas : a) building the product/service and b) strategy for getting customers . I imagine everything else could be documented in a cheatsheet. This could include basic legal stuff, setting up the basic infrastructure like office, industry specific hiring strategies, promotions and so on. Sure, the startup's mandate would be to typically go beyond these but trust me , for someone who hasn't started one in a particular vertical in a particular geography, this kind of information would be a huge support mechanism.

1 comment:

KB said...

Hi BP,

When are you planning to start your own enterprise.

Kunal