ReadWriteStart Has Started!
This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is a resource and guide for first-time entrepreneurs and startups. The channel is sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark. To sign up for BizSpark, click here.
Today we're launching a new channel called ReadWriteStart, in which we'll profile early stage startups and entrepreneurs. As well as startup profiles, we aim to help entrepreneurs in the critical early days of a start-up. We are a startup ourselves, building a business without external funding in a tough economy. So we know the spills as well as the thrills.
In this channel we'll focus on entrepreneurs building web technology ventures. That is what we know best. Some of our writing will be valuable to entrepreneurs in any line of business, but we'll focus on the specific technical, financial, management and personal challenges of building a business online.
Our sponsor for this Channel is Microsoft BizSpark. They pay the bills, but they have no say in what we write.
ReadWriteStart is about the people who really make it happen in this world, the founding teams of entrepreneurs who don't take a no (OK, many, many no's) for an answer, and do what it takes to get their venture up and running.
We will report on all the people who can help those entrepreneurs, the investors, deal-makers, lawyers, accountants, incubators, marketing gurus and vendors of technology products and services. But, the hero of this story is the entrepreneur.
Microsoft BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest
Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide
network of investors and incubators. Click here to apply.
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That's great news! You can never have too many startup-related pieces. I love reading about other startup founders and entrepreneurs are doing.
I hope founders and startups from all over the world will be presented here...not just Silicon Valley...
Good initiative!
Congrats - here is to growth and hoping this becomes a great resource.
I just signed up for the Read Write Start, and after completing the form it took me to the main Read Write Start page without any sort of acknowledgment. I just wanted to make sure that was the desired functionality, and my application went through. Thanks! Great idea by the way!
You might consider adding a "URL" field to the form.
Bernard - good luck with the new concept. The best time to start a good idea is now...
Congrats! Great to see another resource for start-ups to pick up tips, advice and perhaps gain exposure.
We joined the Microsoft BizSpark program late in 2008 and have already benefited largely due to access to the entire MSDN catalogue at no cost.
For most start ups, cash at the beginning is tight so this is a huge saving for any start ups wanting to develop a product using Microsoft technologies.
Glad to see this up and running. Sometimes I think I'm in perpetual startup mode and man, could I use the help!
Sounds like a fantastic idea. There are so many good ideas around that just drift into the ether for lack of promotion or publicity. It's the sort of thing that can mean reaching the tipping point.
I know of one startup that can really make an impact given some exposure (and no, it's not mine!), so how does one get information to you for a story?
Cheers,
Wouldn't ReadWriteStartUp make a better name?
This is a great movement from Microsoft. Open innovation and open source is becomming so popular, so let's see how the new Microsoft approach behave.
Do you own the domain ReadWriteStart.com? If not, why?
Actually mik we do ;-)
Elliot,
Great new support tool for start-ups. We will be tracking your developments and potentially might be a source of new companies for review on your site as we are developing a "Venture Ventilator" in Colorado Springs, CO that is attempting to work at the Grass Roots level in terms of developing and nurturing small businesses. We think incubators are a good idea, but are not as agile as they need to be to monetize and convert entrepreneurial opportunities because of their non-profit structures and linkages to financially-conservative patron organizations. We are attempting to innovate a Collaborative Community Capital Investment model that will utilize private seed angel investors in a partnership pool that will be a mix of debt/equity investment with revenue participation options for ROI that will focus on target markets/technologies and sectors, (like healthcare IT, alternative energy, etc) and obtain leverage across companies and participating entrepreneurs who can support other entrepreneurs in the portfolio. Like a "chaotic commune" with controls ! Also, we have organized and put in place a social networking fabric and meetup model called Colorado Springs Entrepreneurs that will help to develop the local "glue" and "cohesion" between the EDC, Chamber and other small business support, that traditionally don't communicate or coordinate their services between each other. This is very much along the lines of your suggested local leveraging models to get existing univ, incubators, edc, and local funding sources into the mix.
Good Luck !
Great to hear that! I was a big fan of ReadWriteWeb, Now I will become a big fan ReadWriteStart also.
Congratulation to you guys, please keep up your great work !!!
Looking forward to this segement, great chance to learn and grow.
Why not profile start-up nonprofits and social entrepreneurs? We face just as many, if not more, struggles as for-profit ventures do.
Thanks to all the well-wishers. Please continue to tell us what content you like/don't like, so we can tune this to your needs.
For stories/tips/ideas, please send them to tips@readwriteweb.com, all writers see this.
Good idea about profiling non-profits and social entrepreneurs, we want to do more of that. As Willy Wonka says "too much time, not enough to do. No. reverse that!"
Re not being limited to Silicon Valley. Absolutely. I am a Brit, born in Berlin, now living in New York who has lived in Asia. Richard lives in New Zealand and Marshall is in Portland OR. So we will not limited by geography. We have posted interviews with VC in Germany and India and one from China is in the works and we will profile entrepreneurs wherever they emerge from.
Great news, as there seems to be a new shit towards the potential value of the start up company as economic times have changes the focus seems to have moved to emerging companies as the rewards if correct are massive. This is great news for us start ups and I look forward to all the info. If you can make sure that Non US companies are also featured in this section it would be awesome. Good luck and thanx
Anthony
cngrats.............
DisappointedDemocrat; As I learn to use the WEB and all that it offers, I am thrilled as I find new sites which offer new business ideas, and modes. I am a retired nurse of 38 years/plus, interested in writing and publishing, in all genres. I am also seeking to start my own home business, as an Indepedent Call Center. Health and physical limitations increase my determination, but I am much encouraged by what I see is available on the Internet. The very best in all your endeavors. I hope I can avail of some of them. Philadelphia, Pa.
oh,we truse you,come on,may be it is very big change.
We joined the Microsoft BizSpark program late in 2008 and have already benefited largely due to access to the entire MSDN catalogue at no cost.
if have more info pls resch with me..
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Congrats with your new idea. Hope this will be the best site for entrepreneurs