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August 8th, 6:17am 0 comments

5 Questions you need to be able to answer as a start-up

As I go around some of the start-up events in London, lately I keep hearing the same questions over and over again. So to save some time for other budding entrepreneurs, make sure you can answer the following:

  1. How long have you been established?
  2. Where are you based?
  3. What is your business model?
  4. What do you do?
  5. What makes you different?
Lets get to the true meaning behind these questions.

How long have you been established?
Is a way to partly gauge your level of success and see at what stage the business is at. Have you been around for a while (and have something to show for it) or did you form the company yesterday?

Where are you based?
Are you two guys in a garage (nothing wrong with this) or do you have an office that people can drop by. 

What is your business model?
Where is the money? (more applicable to a product startup) 

What do you do?
self evident

What makes you different?
Why should I care about your product/service, or do we really need yet another social network/facebook/iphone/twitter app

So in our case, it's:
1. Since April '09, we've built kohive, teepay, and @tweetarium and we've also done a number of short Rails consulting contracts
2. London - offices on commercial street
4. Same as 3 
5. We specialize in fixing bugs, improving performance and bringing your application to completion, but we're also brilliant at building web apps from scratch
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