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Should I learn to develop? |
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So, you're a business guy thinking about a cool new web service. And you have no idea about Rails, PHP, MySql, Ajax, jQuery, APIs and other obscure stuff like this. Continue reading ‘Should I learn to develop?’
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My first startup: a happy failure story |
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I’m currently working on a cool startup called SubMate. SubMate allows you to discover the familiar strangers you see every day in the subway. This super cool idea has some history. Here is how I learnt some basic entrepreneurship lessons, the hard way.
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TellMeWhere I should check in! |
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Live posting of check-ins is the thing to do and watch in 2010.
I've been testing various options, and I don't know where to go now.
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Getting back to blogging? |
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I've said it in the past, sticked to it for a while, stopped, started again, slowed down… So I won't do it again.
Since I moved back to France, I've been very active on Twitter. And micro-blogging has taken over regular bloggin.
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Hello World!, bis |
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Long time no write. 4 months actually. So to make it brief for my followers, here is a quick update:
- Left New York early June, after 6 amazing years,
- Spent a cool summer between Strasbourg, Paris and Corsica. Lot of time with family!
- Found a cool little apartment with my girlfriend between Montmartre, Pigalle and Barbès.
- Rediscovered amazing and beautiful Paris!
- Fell in love with Velib’, a public bicycle rental in Paris.
- Less blog posting lately, lots of twitter though, but I intend to change that.
- Working full time on CabEasy and another small apps soon to be launched.
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One way ticket for Paris |
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5 years in 5 blocks |
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As I was walking back home from lower east side tonight, it hit me. Passing by Max Fish, Piano, Orchard, Stanton, Avenue A, Rivington, the homeless on 7th and A, the punks on St Marks and A, I realized:
I’m leaving new york. Boom, in 10 days I’m gone.
Wow, with all the troubles renting my apartment, preparing my move, my departure from Air France, my plans for the coming months and calculations reg. my budget, I guess I didn’t realize what was about to happen: I’m leaving New York, the city I love, the city I dreamed to live in as a kid, the city I’ve lived the longest time in since I work, …
5 years just flew by, and walking home tonight, I saw myself at every intersection of my life in New York. 5 years, 260 weeks, as much time coasting down Avenue A or B, Stanton, Ludlow, Allen, Rivington. As an intern, young and dumb, as an employee, heart broken, joyful, in love, sad, with a camera, with friends, with dreams, without. 5 years.
The wine might make this post sound quite tacky and cheesy, but this is my second-to-last week end in New York, and it just hit me now. This is gonna be tough…
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Business ideas are a dime a dozen |
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Business ideas are a dime a dozen
Pamela Slim in this interview with Guy Kawasaki.
I said it in the past, and any accomplished entrepreneur (like Charlie O’Donnell here about YouDeparted) will say the same. It’s all about execution - and risk.
Yesterday, I took a first step in that direction. Many of my friends told me they admired the risk I’m taking, and that they would love to do the same, but have no ideas.
Imagine if someone told you “Hey! Let’s build Notre-Dame de Paris in LEGOs!”. Nothing new there. However, the result is stunning (see the picture above). And is exposed for hundreds to see at the Lego World in Cologne.
That’s execution and marketing. The idea was worthless without them.
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The first day of the rest of my life |
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Like everyone with an entrepreneurial spirit, I’ve had many business ideas.
The one I pushed the further until CabEasy was SubMate. Saddly, SubMate didn’t fly. It didn’t fly for many reasons, but the main one is that I didn’t commit full time on it, keeping my day job and trying to pursue my project (development, fund raising, marketing and PR, …) on evenings and week ends.
I’m not doing this mistake again.
Today, at noon, I tendered my letter of resignation. From now on and for the next few months, I will work full time on CabEasy. With the little money I have aside, I will work my a** off on three things: product, partnerships, money. In pretty much that order. Product will lead to partnerships, and partnerships will legitimate the project.
Wish me luck - I feel like jumping off a plane, without parachute, by night, over a desert, without water. But I’m confident that CabEasy has a real potential, and I’m determined to listen to my users and partners to make it a huge success. Stay tuned, big ideas coming!
And if by fall I haven’t pushed three major updates of the site for three different potential types of customers, I will update my resume and get on Path101 for some career and job hunting tips ;)
See you soon - in a cab!
[photo credits: Jumping ...., by JPhilipson]
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I'm Laurent Kretz, 30, ex New-Yorker now living in Paris, originally from France. Founder of CabEasy.com, a cool & easy way to share your cab rides and save money.(more)Contact
