Startup Madness

Re:Startup Madness by bootload on Saturday December 13, 2008 @09:14PM (#397167)

"... Each time we met a new person, we were constantly thinking of how this person can help our venture, . Everywhere we went, we explored if there was something there that could benefit our startup. Frankly we were classical ‘opportunity hounds” and quite shamelessly so ..."

I've seen this so many times and it tends to work well in a boom. I'm curious how well does this idea work in the current crash?

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Re:Startup Madness by guglanisam on Sunday December 14, 2008 @12:01AM (#397234)

I would think importance of this increases in the bust / crash times as money is scarce / precious, one has to use innovative / free ways to get things done. In fact it happened with me most when madhouse was running with very low cash.

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Re:Startup Madness by skmurphy on Saturday December 13, 2008 @10:55PM (#397207)

A high level of commitment is required, but with more focus on reciprocity: what can you do to return the favor for each one you are asking for. Barter in many forms becomes a lot more common.

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