• WhatCustomersWant

What Do Customers Want

Time for us to find out what customers really want so that we can properly construct software and a message that soklves their problems.

• Paul Graham has posted a new essay on his website on how to start a startup. According to him 'You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.' How difficult can that be? So go start them startups." (Slashdot story)

Some Ideas

• single sign-on
• community registration
• better membership management tools
• conference and event registration

Usability

• Usability Considered Useful

Marketing

See Marketing

1. create demo/tutorial with Wink

2. what's our business plan? who are our customers?
   1. are we a consulting service helping others install i-brokers?
   2. are we an ASP-style services provider?
   3. are we pursuing a vertical market such as:
      • conference/event registration
      • a provider of membership management tools

3. CommunityInameServicesSpec

4. MarketingMessageStrategy (OwenDavis)

   1. CoMarketButtons

   2. template copy for orgs
5. Status of @Name applications
   1. Owen to draft a spec for @name administration

6. I-name enable LivingDirectory, BlueOxenAssociates, and BooksWeLike

7. Demo accounts (for now, see http://demo.2idi.com)

8. AccountableNetLaunchStrategy - a proposed strategy for a second launch once i-broker software code is released and community i-names are available.