{"id":144,"date":"2007-12-19T19:34:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T01:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/startup-launched-not-really\/"},"modified":"2007-12-19T19:34:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T01:34:20","slug":"startup-launched-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pchristensen.com\/blog\/articles\/startup-launched-not-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Launched! (not really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in a couple of my posts, I&#8217;m working on a startup.  This wasn&#8217;t technically true until this week.  Before, I had an idea for something to do but I hadn&#8217;t even done anything resembling working on it.  Now, I&#8217;ve at least done something resembling work!  So far I have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>setup the virtual server on my shared hosting account<\/li>\n<li>setup a couple email addresses<\/li>\n<li>setup a gmail address that those addresses forward to (I have no interest in running a mail server)<\/li>\n<li>picked a name (will be discussed later on the startup blog)<\/li>\n<li>registered the domain<\/li>\n<li>setup WordPress to blog<\/li>\n<li>wrote a welcome post on the site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, I know at this point, the suspense is killing you, right?  Right!?!  Ok, here goes.  The statup is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallpunch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SmallPunch<\/a> and it&#8217;s the motto is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallpunch.com\/\"><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153SmallPunch is a job search tool that Doesn\\&#8217;t Suck.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why did I start with these tasks?  Why am I messing around with blogging when &#8220;wrote the code&#8221; and &#8220;got feedback from users&#8221; are conspicuously absent from my list above?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a single founder (who&#8217;s married), so that&#8217;s two strikes for time.  I also have a day job, a commute, and a baby, so I have 1-2 hours a day to work, max.  That means about 10-15 hours a week, as opposed to the 100+ that a pair of hackers working full time have.  Since I have to deal with a 10x disadvantage in working time, I need to leverage my time as much as possible.   That means that I need to build assets that work for me.<\/p>\n<p>So what does announcing SmallPunch on this blog do?  I mean, I only have 4 or so readers.   But, those 4 readers are the GoogleBot, the YahooBot, the AskBot, and the MicrosoftLiveBot.  That means that by writing in advance, I can have some established links and organic search results sprinkled in when it comes time to launch.  Look for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallpunch.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">SmallPunch blog<\/a> for details about the startup, and here for more about the process used to create it.<\/p>\n<p>In then next post, I&#8217;ll announce some of my plans and schedule for SmallPunch as a startup.<\/p>\n<p><hints id=\"hah_hints\"><\/hints><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned in a couple of my posts, I&#8217;m working on a startup. This wasn&#8217;t technically true until this week. Before, I had an idea for something to do but I hadn&#8217;t even done anything resembling working on it. Now, I&#8217;ve at least done something resembling work! 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