Posts Tagged ‘startup’

Wanting to start a business that will provide everything you can possibly imagine in a given field is bound to failure. Don’t try to be everything to everybody. That won’t work. But if you can just offer one thing relevant to a small group of people – then you have the base to succeed.

One of the most common mistakes I hear all the time is wanting to build an “all inclusive” type of business.

What’s really interesting to me is to see the exact same misconceptions and mistakes so widely spread. Literally anyone who ever talked to me about starting a new business has had a similar approach. No wonder most businesses fail within the first year!

I also always hear the same examples: Amazon, Google, or some other giant! You can’t start a business trying to mimic companies that have matured over 10 years and became huge because of a myriad of reasons. (more…)

While building Noam Design and helping other businesses take off, I’ve learned a thing or two about entrepreneurship and about developing a business. Here are 6 mistakes I find particularly hard for entrepreneurs to avoid: (more…)

When starting a business, you often have to juggle between tasks and roles. One day you’re the project manager and the next you’re the billing department guy. Of course that’s totally fine – and you should be proud of taking care of so many different things. If you’re a one man show – enjoy it while it lasts and promote yourself as such.

But as time goes by and your company grows stronger, you’ll want to focus on what you do best and enjoy the most while delegating the other tasks to people who are a better fit for them. (more…)

People plan. When it comes to planning a business startup or a website, often months pass by and they’re still planning. Planning how much money they’ll spend, how much they’ll make, how long it will take, what their customers will do, how things will happen, etc.

When you realize that planning really is guessing, you start doing more and talking about doing less. You’ll start creating, achieving, launching, testing, trying – all but postponing. Realizing that you can’t plan too much is a huge milestone for any project. Your approach suddenly changes. You focus on reality and loose the illusion that you know what you’re doing.

When I started up Noam Design back a couple of years ago, raising funds wasn’t an option. All I had was my dedication, 10 thousand dollars in my girlfriend’s bank account, and 3 months of hard work. Down the road, as the company grew stronger, it became very attractive to venture capital firms and potential investors, especially during particularly steep growth periods. But I was always way too busy developing the business to ever have the time to consider the offers I got to raise funds. I think this actually helped our company grow stronger faster, and innovate in our market. (more…)

Over the years, I’ve worked with many entrepreneurs and business developers. One thing that has struck me time after time is how seemingly incompetent some of these startupists are at growing their business and achieving results.

This was something I could never understand… until one day I realized that most of these CEOs aren’t actually working towards developing their business! Rather, they’re working towards raising the next round of fundings for their company. Here is a great related quote I stumbled upon recently:  (more…)

A little while ago, we almost announced the launch of Template Action, a unique web startup delivering custom CMS website templates and Flash CMS website templates. To promote this exiting new venture, we decided to launch a pilot banner campaign on the BuySellAds network, which is a great way to reach web design professionals as it specializes in the web design field. (more…)

Many entrepreneurs are convinced their idea or concept is unique and they think they are tapping into a virgin market. Then they worry about being able to implement their idea as quickly as possible, because they fear that someone else might potentially beat them at launching this type of business first. As a result, many business developers are rushing the execution of their concept (while not being willing to reduce the amount of useless features that “must” come with it) and they end up with a half-assed product that isn’t clean, doesn’t work well, and is bloated with unnecessary features. (more…)

Noam Design runs so many websites and projects that one can easily get confused! To clear things up a bit, I decided to make it simple by publishing a number of posts on this blog, each post will be dedicated to a specific type of projects.

This post is solely dedicated to our online shops for digital goods and services: Noam Design Group owns, operates, runs, and manages the following Ecommerce websites offering digital goods and services – and you can get a 20% discount on any of these sites with coupon code ‘NOAMDESIGN’: (more…)

I recently saw this flyer posted in my neighborhood and found it interesting. The advertiser is very clear about what he is offering, who he is targeting, and how much he charges. After looking at the flyer, you know right away whether or not this is something that you are looking for. For potential clients, this clarity is a great benefit, as for the advertiser he saves time by not having to deal with irrelevant inquiries.

The design of the ad is also very clear and it conveys a clear message. While offering a variety of services, Sean is not offering everything possible in the field of personal assistance – he focused on people who are “busy professionals” looking for a part-time personal assistant, people who need help taking care of a wide variety of tasks. I think there is a great market for this type of services and when narrowing your target population intelligently like Sean does, you can reach a field that is relatively free of competition.

Why not start up a web 2.0 service were busy people can sign up and (more…)