Most people who read here, or don’t read here lately, know that I’ve been busy putting together a whiz-bang team and pursuing my pursuit of a life as a professional comic (ok I’m not being honest there).

In reality, I’ve been finally shaving down all the rough edges and realizing just how large the opportunity before us is. It’s quite exciting and we’re now in the process of getting ready to annouce we exist :) How exciting, I know.

What I can say is we’re building a Web 2.0 application. I didn’t make up the term, I don’t know if I like it, but I know that when you see it, it will instantly be recognized as such. Fortunately for me, I’ve been quickly removing myself from the development side and focusing on the opportunity alone. Granted, it works wonder that I know geek speak, can write my own code, design databases and all that stuff, but in reality it’s just too nice having capable, excited developers as my partners in crime now.

I came across this link on the Business Opportunities Weblog and thought it was pretty dang succinct:

10 Steps to a Successful Web 2.0 Company

1. Solve the smallest possible problem…
2. Get a responsive and chatty audience using the product.
3. Launch. Now. Tomorrow. Every day.
4. Distribute. Distribute. Distribute.
5. Don’t hold users against their will.
6. Be mindnumbingly simple.
7. Get people hooked on free.
8. Don’t waste any money on marketing.
9. Don’t overfund.
10. No one sucks.

And so let’ see how we’re doing:

1. Check.
2. Still Pending.
3. Working on it - believe you me.
4. How do we do that exactly?
5. Would never consider it.
6. Roger.
7. We love free stuff too.
8. !Marketing
9. Printing our own money doesn’t count, does it?
10. Amen.