Good strategy

First, and as it seems the most important thing when you start your own project is a good strategy. You should know why you want to start this project, what are it s specific features, how can it influence on people lives, and how to successfully persuade people to use it. I think it is a key question. Even if you have a good idea, and sacrifice much energy to run it, it is unfortunately worth nothing if nobody knows that it exists, or wants to use it.

Some general tips

There are many Internet resources where you can find general tips. They all are really valueable, but especially I have found one article which suits my needs very well, and is really helpful for a budding creator. Let my share now rules provided there.

  1. It’ s a crucial to participate in meetups and events. Thanks to that you are able to meet industry and people who may become interested in your project as well as investors who may help you to finance your idea.
  2. Then you can try to contact with journalists and show up in media. It’s good to write on TechCruch, The Next Web and VentureBeat services.
  3. Then try to public posts on social media like Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/startupeurope, Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/startups, https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/ Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3663573/profile,  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4427003/profile
  4. Then it is good to start with crowdfunding campaign. To do it you can use Kickstarter or Indiegogo. It’s very popular and highly effective way of finding new people to collaborate.
  5. Add information about your own project on Angel List i CrunchBase.
  6. If you can afford, try to run your campaign on Product Hunt.
  7. Join industry channels on Slack. There are some recommended: SaasAlliance, YoungStartups or LaunchYourRevolution.

 

Wireless Network Projects

CommonsNet is a new project in a wireless network, but there are already some existing projects related to this subject. They are great examples to CommonsNet firstly because they have achieved a huge success and become known across the world, and secondly they have found a wide range of contributors, volunteers, people who want to work on this success. So, doing some research on them is advisable to find correct and complete answers to all initial questions we may have. Let’s list them to be sure what we are looking for. It will definitely help us to lead our project successfully as well. They can also be found here.

number and groups of participants (who are they? how many? etc.

what are they specifically doing ,

what is the history/background

what software and tools are being used

what network technologies do they use

how are they organized, do they have associations, companies ets?

how do they share?

what are the limits of their activities?

in what legal context do they operate and what are possible restrictions e.g. limited frequencies, status

how do they finance their activities,

what is the outlook

Now, let’s see our posts on these wireless project and learn new things: Freifunk, Libre-Mesh, Guifi.net