Kristin Savage

Via Nwokedi Idika I came across this startup school 08 talk from David Heinemeier Hansson (Rails/Hacker of the year 2005) on how to make money from your startup.

It’s refreshing and easy to watch!

.com or .co.nz?

In a fashion context, they say that designed/made in NZ has more pull than made in China, regardless of the reality of the quality.

If thats true, then maybe having a local domain name for your global product might be just as effective, if not better than the supposed global domain? Say globalclothes.co.nz, instead of globalclothes.com. Considering most people usually arrive at a website via google, it’ll probably rarely be typed anyway.

That might remove the need for the ‘Made in New Zealand’ text on your homepage too.

Does anyone agree or disagree?

It will be interesting if this happens.

Is it the start of fresh new things from Microsoft or the last groan before a slow death?

Seth Godin makes some great points in his free e-book Money for nothing (and your clicks for free).

3 points to consider when trying to get more traffic. The three U’s …make a website that is:

Unique, Useful and Updated.

Seems so simple. Doesn’t make the road any easier, just sheds a little light on it. Probably a 10 minute read all up.

After a few months of solid work we’re proud to have figuretree launched.

Figuretree.com is a tool which helps you develop simple financial calculations for various requirements.

You can create and manage figures for things like:

• Budgets (weddings, holidays, groceries)
• Prices for clients
• Project cost estimates

Feel free to visit figuretree and have a play… we’d love to know your thoughts and hear your suggestions.

Our vision is very much for users to feel they can work with us to develop figuretree so it does what you want!

We hope you enjoy it.

Greg Webber is an innovative surfboard shaper from Australia.

He shapes great surfboards and his approach makes for excellent boards which work well in the conditions they’ve been created for.

Webber Surfboards developed the Afterburner. What a board!! If you’re interested you can watch a video of Greg Webber talking about the merits of the afterburner by clicking through the links: surfboards - afterburner - video on the webber website. It’s all explained there. Nice!

It was a little more expensive than most new boards are, but in my opinion it was worth every cent. Whats $150 extra when you’re surfing it every week, and it brings you that much more enjoyment? Considering cost/benefit ratio it’s probably $0.50 extra each surf, but for bliss. And it sure brings me more enjoyment than a $15 movie ticket. Speaking of movies, Bra Boys was an interesting flick.

I’ve had mine nearly two years and its still going strong. It might seem strange, but I kinda want it to deteriorate so that I can buy a new one and again experience that schoolboy excitement of having a new surfboard.

Soon enough i’m sure!

:^)

When I watch this video, I cant help but be reminded of the comments I read about start-ups and how having too much funding too early can be a trap.

BMX guy here had plenty of resources, yet he still missed the mark.

It seems that missing by a little can be missing by alot.

Missing might be starting a start-up that doesn’t solve pain. Must a start-ups solution to its customers pain be good enough to motivate them to get their wallet out?

I reckon yes.