[nabentre] getting started:a few questions/ideas

Wed Feb 26 05:39:41 UTC 2014

Hi,
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-----Original Message-----
From: nabentre [mailto:nabentre-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Brandon
Keith Biggs
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:18 PM
To: tyler at tysdomain.com; NAB Entrepreneurs Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nabentre] getting started:a few questions/ideas

Hello Ty,
I'm no professional myself, but I've been reading and researching myself and
from what I've read there are a couple things you should do:
1. Make a business plan.
2. start talking to customers about what they would want and get a nice list
of people who would love to see your product.
3. talk to friends and family about your business and ask them if they would
be willing to help you fund your costs.
4. Talk to a business attorney about offering stocks and the different
business structures.
5. attend angel investor lunches.
6. There are some government grants (I'm not sure of the website, but the
name is somewhere in my books, other people probably know what it
is) Look for support in your area. You may have an advantage because you are
blind and a programmer. Also I'm sure it would help if you planned on
getting your own teem of people together, working for you.
7. See if you can out-source anything to cut down on production costs.
8. Talk to banks about the kinds of loans you can get.

I would suggest you read OPM, Other People's Money by Michael A. 
Lechter. It is on Bookshare.
On another note, I would really like to have a web host that has an easy to
use accessible interface.
I would also like some people who can do the basic design for a website with
very little if any royalties and who can help get it so I can just upload an
HTML document or something in order to update.
If you wanted to be really fancy, you could make a file explorer-type
application like Dropbox has, but have it as the database of the website.
That way I could have pages in one folder, app files in another folder,
pictures in another folder, music in another folder, uploads in another
folder and that way I can have a backup on my computer, I don't need to
worry about going into a new system to sort my files and it is easier to
update.
Some ideas that you may want to consider are:
1. Offering drop-box-like uploading and downloading for audio gamers. 
Developers often hit a cap of how many downloads they can have a month with
Drop Box, but they still want a free service. So you can offer a free
service for maybe 1 or 2 games and maybe an add can show up some how when a
person lists a link. I personally find accessible adds very amusing, but it
may be better for the game developer them self to build in adds into his
game while you charge.
2. Some how integrate with Drop box, so I can put some part of my database
in Dropbox and view it on any device. This would be better than trying to
compete with Dropbox and making apps for portable devices.
3. Offer a groups hosting that is easy to use. I hate googlegroups and
Freelists is not good for everything.
4. offer a free website with maybe a very small amount of hosting space and
only have adds for your website hosting on there.
5. Make it very easy to in bed doodle, YouTube, Facebook and Survey Monkey
into our website.
6. Offer the ability to update twitter, facebook and linked in when we
update our website. That way I go to your website instead of facebook to
write updates. It would also be awesome to have the ability to make facebook
events and invite all the people on our email list through an easy to use
interface.

You could maybe charge a little for each tool as either a subscription or a
one-time buying fee. It would also be cool if you had a CSS professional
contact website creators and offer to beef up the look of their website for
a little cost. As a blind person I am really scared about looking really
dumb to sighted people, but I want to build my own webpages. I just don't
trust myself with CSS.
I would really like to see some kind of provider like the above come to be,
so I can use it for all my websites and so people at audiogames.net aren't
having to combine their dropbox with their games for their first several
projects.
Also, if someone has a game on a website it looks so much more professional,
everyone sees a dropbox link and knows that that person is new. A website
link says to the consumer that this developer knows what they are doing.
Also, with a website link people can get listed on the audio games website.
I was looking at Sam net and really liked their product and interface. 
It just didn't have enough documentation for me to want to buy it. But I
think using Same Net and Dropbox would be better than trying to compete with
them.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs

On 2/25/2014 6:51 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
> hello all:
> I had a few questions I wanted to run by some of you.
> First, I'd really like to get into the area of web hosting and selling 
> virtual-private servers. There's all sorts of stuff that can be done 
> with this, but essentially it'd be nice to be able to start customers 
> up and host their websites for them--perhaps with an easy interface to 
> get them going.
> While I realize web hosts are a dime a dozen, I want to offer 
> security, privacy and stability as my selling point, together with an 
> easy-to-use accessible panel and some other features that a lot of 
> companies don't really have.
> Given this, I've started looking at setting this up--perhaps by 
> writing all the code and creating the needed services first. While I 
> work on the code needed to manage all of this, I was trying to figure 
> out how I'd actually afford startup costs. I'm in college, so money 
> isn't exactly raining from the heavens; similarly, I don't tend to 
> have much at all left over at the end of each month to throw in 
> savings. Are there good resources for creating startups and funding?
>
> I've also considered marketting a few projects I have on the workbench 
> first, which might help me get going in terms of funding, to the point 
> where I can expand. to that end and to help me, I've had some 
> experience with IOS development and would like to start finding people 
> who are in need of server administration, backend web development or 
> IOS/desktop development. I've seen a few sites that are dedicated to 
> this, but they generally want a monthly fee inn order to get going.
>
> Any advice/information would be greatly appreciated.
>

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