My top 3:
1. How do I get money?
2. How do I get a good deal?
3. How do I recruit great people?
I'll collect the responses and post the results here on news.yc.
- Nivi from Venture Hacks, http://venturehacks.com
1) Who is my audience?
2) What will I help them do that is better than what they have to do now?
3) How am I going to build it?
2) how do I manage 1 million + users with the smallest team possible?
3) how do I turn 1 million users into at least 10 million dollars?
When I think of startups I'd like to be, I think of Winamp, hotornot.com, del.icio.us, reddit. These are companies that won big with only 1-5 people. I've been involved with startups that focused on getting a good series-A, hiring 20-30 people, then fucked around for 3 years and vanished off the face of the earth.
At this point, i think a better approach is to stay small and cash out for $10M in 18 months, rather than try to get big with an increasingly diminishing chance of success.
Of course if you're sure you've got a Google or YouTube, the "traditional" silicon valley venture-backed startup isn't a bad way to go. However it is kind of a bummer when you sell your thing for $1.4 billion and 600 million of it goes right to your investors... Would rather be Justin Frankel than Chad Hurley.
1. What's my business model? 2. How do I get to prototype/alpha/demo? 3. What investors are interested in this stage, industry and business model?
2) Whats my business model going to be?
3) Where am I going to get a cofounder?
2. Man, these doritos are good.
3. Wow, someone just handed me a lot of money.