10 things to do to create a web startup in New Zealand
We have been working on Pocketsmith for almost a month and there are still thousands of admin / set up / business things to get sorted! If you don’t want spend hours freaking out about what you have to do to make it right from the beginning, just follow these 10 things to do to create a web startup in New Zealand:
- Find a cool Name for the business.
- Release a blog to share your experience with family, friends and everybody around you. They are the first people to support you so let them know you think about them.
- Buy the last BENQ 21.6″ (22″) G211OW LCD Monitor and use it as your second monitor
- Set up your bank account and make sure your on good terms with the bank manager
- Find and talk to your accountant. Get the friendly one who support you in your project
- Find a whiteboard, two markers and one whiteboard eraser. Then, get a gold fish and a coffee machine. Finish your shopping with decent seats and you will be ready to rock on
- Contact a lawyer (make sure they understand some web 2.0 concepts / big up to Upstart from Dunedin for your wise advice). Think about signing up a partnership agreement to start with in order to guarantee your partners’ protection just in case Jason decides to run off to California with the business idea.
- Get an IRD number. If you have to call them for any reason, remember not having anything to do in the next hours as you can expect waiting on the phone for a good portion of your life!
- Register a trademark. If you want to know what class your business is in, I advise you to look at famous web startups you know. We tried with 1000minds, and Vouchermate, two IT startups from Dunedin, and we are now pretty sure (but not entirely) that our web startup belongs to classes 9 and 36. Yeepee!
- Use your old gaming machine as the first server. Get ready to release an alpha version within 4 weeks.
- *James rudely interjects with an 11th, completely ruining the whole 10 things concept* Get an old Xbox and throw it underneath an old TV that squeals like a pig whenever you turn it on (the old one you don’t want to throw away because DTR molested $1000 out of you for it when you were 15 and stupid). Play three minutes, then realise that console controls really do suck as bad as playing on a 21″ TV that is about to explode. Get back to work.
To celebrate our first month, the Pocketsmith team will move out sometime next week for a “spiritual retreat”. We don’t know where are we going but we are going. Good times
Stay tuned!
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