startupcapital

What is your company going to build?

News archiving on the web.

List for each founder there, name, birth year, college and degrees earned.

Tom Sunderland, 9-22-1960, Hampshire College, New York Restaurant School, ASU, no degrees earned.

What does each founder bring to this project? What is each founders best skill?

Brings to project: 1000 notebook pages, 100 items of on line documentation.

Best Skill: dreaming.

What is new or different about the project you are working on?

For whatever reason, no one seems to be doing it in a significant way.

What makes you company special vs. your competition?

Going to edges.

What are people forced to do now because what you plan to make doesn't exist yet?

Endless tedious work to make sense of the news.

What is the plan to make money?

advertising, liscencing

Have you identified all competitors? Is Google one of them J?

I've been studying the web site at The Arizona Republic. I'm a regular reader at Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, Yahoo! News. I'm vaguely aware of the on line New York Times, a couple of London papers, Asahi Shinbun.

What websites have you built in the past or companies have you worked for that you contributed greatly to?

Every, outside of some experimental work, that I have created on line is at http://easygateatanurbanistsblogs.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html.

How long has all the founding members worked together and known each other?

I did (do) work with a psychologist for twenty years to develop my method, and I've lived proximate to ASU for twenty five.

What technologies will you use to build your project?

Ruby.

Have you started working on the project? If so, how far along are you?

Strictly conceptual work, though documented to some extent at http://auarizonarepublicindex.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html.

Can we see it? What is the URL?

http://auarizonarepublicindex.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html is, in part, a demonstration of concept

What is your time frame for building a alpha project? beta?

5 months, 6 months

from wikipedia: "Alpha, both as a symbol and term, is used to refer to or describe a variety of things, including the first or most significant occurrence of something." Sure, three months is fine.

If your exit strategy is to be purchased, who is most likely to buy you?

can't say as I intend to be purchased, let's see, the Swiss media conglomerate.

What would you sell your project of after you got a beta done in the 3 months given?

sorry, don't understand the question

Can someone else duplicate your project? If so how fast could they do it?

Fast, I guess.

Is your project able to be patentable?

yes

SWOT Analysis

Strengths:

Reading, writing, drawing, graphical composition, color theory, data association, pixel theory, business practice (theory of).

Weaknesses:

Isolation, innertia, shyness, smoking, lack of credentials, limited technical proficiency.

Opportunities:

Make web news extremely popular.

Threats:

What is SWOT analysis?

Do you have a company formed at this time? Is so what is the structure?

No.

What is your commitment to the project?

Total.

Have any of the founders signed non-competes or IP agreements?

No.

Have people other than the founders worked on the project?

To some extent, yes.

Have you used open source projects? Please list, including libraries and frameworks.

html, css, php, javascript, second life, freebasic, blogger, facebook, only the last two with any proficiency

What is the coolest thing on the Internet that you have seen in the past 6 months?

It's not that cool but, http://files.onearmedman.com/games/petlab/kimono/ ... and this is pretty cool: http://geoplan.asu.edu/bsp.

I tried to fill out this survey a couple of years ago, and couldn't do it. I kind of looks like my work since then has worked out, because today I felt pretty comfortable with it. I submitted it and got a confirmation it had been recorded.

I had gone to endeavorip first, another company, local, I've looked at, and found it discouraging, though I might consider working with them on the organizational issues. That's the big push right now: finding partners in industry.