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I'm starting a new magazine, The Startup Magazine

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I will give you hipstartup.com if you want a shorter (better?) name.

EDIT: LOL, I offer a free domain name and get downvoted :P gotta love HN.

EDIT2: Now, to troll, everyone is upvoting me :)

Thanks for the offer, man. But I was looking for something else that describes typical startups (don't think all startups are "hip"...whichever meaning the word implies).

(Believe it or not) I initially wanted to name the magazine "HUSTLE".

Someone is squatting on Hustle.com That would be a cool name.

But you'd be one typo away from being blocked by proxy filters

Why not hustlemag.com? I think Hustle Magazine is a stronger name with some edge to it.

You could almost say it has a 'hardcore' edge to it. Seriously, you would always be in the shadow of Hustler magazine in terms of mindshare. Just do a quite Google search for hustle magazine (no quotes) to see where they would be starting off from a branding perspective.

Not worth having that kind of initial hinderance to overcome.

There already is a magazine called Hustler, and I imagine they would press anyone out of business who used a similar sounding name.

I'd definitely love to see this. But the name might be confusing, as there's already an app called "Startup Magazine" on the iPad app store.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/startup-magazine/id438439533?...

It seems to be made by some guys from the Netherlands. This is their website: http://startupmagazine.net/

Yeah, I noticed that after I've decided to use the name. There's also a magazine called "Startups" from Entrepreneur (the magazine that sues entrepreneur http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578592).

It is actually really hard to find a good (and memorable) magazine name with available domain name. But instead of keep looking for the perfect name, I've decided to stick with this first and focus on producing the magazine.

How are you going to make money from this venture?

By selling the magazine, both digital and print. There won't be subscription yet.

What indication do you have that a paying market exists for such a product?

A. Why does he need any indication. Fail fast, fail cheap. If it doesn't work it is only a loss to those invovled.

B. I would pay. So there.

No indication. Just have the urge to do this.

I would pay for this too. I used to read magazines like Entrepreneur but they're filled with ads and full of fluff info. If it actually contains stories of substance, I'd pay a small subscription every month for it. Go for it!

Just don't start suing people for using the word "Startup" like some other entrepreneur(ial) magazine.

He is talking about Entrepreneur Magazine. Yes, Entrepreneur Magazine sues Entrepreneurs for use of the word.

Let's repeat that again; Entrepreneur Magazine is a magazine that sues entrepreneurs.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b42300781...

I just subscribed and look forward to receiving issues. One challenge you might have is consistently coming up with good stories. Hacker News started out as Startup News but in PG's words (paraphrased) they quickly got bored of just startup stories and sought to broaden it by making it about more than just startups--and renamed it Hacker News. I believe TechCrunch also started out with this mission but after the initial few months kind of lost steam and realized that they got more pageviews by attacking established companies. Arrington has been quoted saying he'd like to someday create a site about just startups. I'm not sure how he will make it successful this time.

One nitpick I have with Hacker Monthly is that I get the digital copy a lot faster than the physical copy. A day or two difference is okay, but I myself reading the digital copy before the physical copy arrives.

I don't know how much of this is caused by the just-in-time nature of MagCloud, but it would be ideal if the physical would arrive on the first of the month or if the digital issue could be delayed by a few days.

I love getting the physical copy, but the delivery leaves a bit to be desired. I think this aspect is important if you really want to become like a traditional magazine and not just blog articles printed out and bound every 30 (+/- 10) days.

Make sense. Noted.

Two reasons: 1)It took me a whole month to produce the issue. 2)MagCloud needed more time to process the large group order we placed.

Solution: I could try shorten the time to produce it and will work with the MagCloud team to see how do we ship it in time.

I'm starting a new magazine about starting startup magazines.

Yo dawg I herd u...

Having a "Why the hell didn't I think of this" moment.

Love it; from what I understand it's basically a HN magazine full of start up (success and dismal failure) stories?

Can't wait to see it, good luck guys :)

Edit: Just gave you your 100'th upvote, I hope this means I get early access :P

Have I got a story to tell. I'm a founder of a bootstrapped startup in Central Florida, which is by all means on the opposite side of the world when it comes to tech. Got a great product and an excellent team but just struggling to break through. Southeast tech struggles.

Please drop an email to contribute@thestartupmagazine.com

Will do for sure.

Sent.

Southeast tech struggles

Hehe try doing it from Australia

Great idea. Some nitpicking: your logo looks extremely reminiscent of the National Geographic logo. You might want to give some though to changing that.

What's a magazine? Is it like a blog except where you mail it out every month?

Print magazine, just like http://hackermonthly.com. Except it's unique content.

If you really need a sample, take a look at this (free digital download): http://hackermonthly.com/startup-stories.html

Again, the articles in The Startup Magazine will be 100% unique, and it will have a whole new design diff from Hacker Monthly.

What is the readership number of hacker monthly?

It was all a dream. I used to read (The) Startup magazine.

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