Management

If you never heard about the 30-days startup challenge that I am taking, then I suggest you to read the following list of articles. Today we will disclose the business model behind WordiZ, the application we are creating. By doing this, I am of course aware of confidential issues, but I have the feeling that people tend to be lazy and stealing ideas take some energy. Since I am also some steps ahead from I will describe here, the concept given is the one I wrote down 2 weeks ago, and it as slightly evolved.

For those who don’t know about the 30-days Startup Challenge, please have a look at my explanation here. The post of today will explain in detail how I selected the name of the startup, and what had been achieved in the last 4 days. We are indeed already reaching day-4 and I have the feeling that many things happened.

Initial feedback

You have been almost 300 people to read the first article (and I got no comment via the blog). I exchanged many emails since last Monday, and I should say that the overall feedback is really positive and motivating for me. Thanks to the first article, 10 more people signed up to the newsletter, which is quite a good number. If you want to receive the last updates, I strongly suggest you to do the same :

I have not been writing on my blog for many months now. This was probably to learn more and more from online readings and share experience with friends. As you may know, I am still working on PhD degree (Italy//Spain) in the field of nanotechnologies. However, I recently decided to try a quick and intensive challenge. Let’s call it the «  30-days startup challenge  ».

30-days startup challenge

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Un petit billet pour vous faire part de blogs dont la lecture réveille mon apétit pour l’entrepreuneuriat. Je suis tombé un peu par hasard sur l’un d’eux, et me voilà accroc.

http://steveblank.com : un retraité avec plusieurs société derrières lui. Silicon Valley

I just found an interesting book in Library I was working in. The book is called “Why didn’t I think of that?” and is written by A. Freeman and B. Golden.

Inside you will discover the story of 50 inventions that ‘changed’ our society. This book may contain some unknown product for non-US people (like Cuisinart,Frito-Lay, Jello …) but most of them are known worldwide.  You will discover for instance that the yoyo come from the Philippines, that the post-it was not first believed to be useful for 3M …

Je suis en pleine recherche d’une solution basique pour assurer la gestion de mes clients/ventes/contacts. En gros je recherche un petit outils open source qui correspond a un CRM/ERP.  Je suis tombé ce matin sur un projet qui a l’air français, Dolibarr : http://www.dolibarr.fr . Il me plait bien et a l’air beaucoup plus simple qu’un tueur comme VTiger (http://www.vtiger.com). Mais avant de l’installer  j’ai voulu faire le tour des solutions existantes. »