Comments on: New York Tech Meetup + An Alternative to Seed-Financing? https://amandapeyton.com/blog/2009/07/new-york-tech-meetup-an-alternative-to-seed-financing/ AP's thoughts and musings Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:13:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jonathan W https://amandapeyton.com/blog/2009/07/new-york-tech-meetup-an-alternative-to-seed-financing/comment-page-1/#comment-4200 Jonathan W Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:08:10 +0000 http://savemefrombschool.com/?p=265#comment-4200 Hey Amanda, Thanks for the blog mention! Very insightful and interesting comments. You're right, Exit Strategy NYC was bootstrapped and done on a shoestring budget: borrowed android and blackberry phones from friends, hired two developers primarily on equity and the third cheaply overseas via odesk, used 99designs for affordable logo design etc. I'm proud to say I developed an app across three different mobile platforms on an extremely tight budget. I'm not sure Exit Strategy NYC will be a road to getting rich quick, but who knows! It seems a LOT of people have a fundamental aversion to paying for an app..apple's set a bad precedent. Regardless, I've found the process of building and launching a product to be exhilarating and an incredible experience, and I feel super prepared for whatever venture I decided to embark on next. I'll write a longer blog post on my own blog at somepoint, but basically this experience has taught me the most important lesson of all: how to get stuff DONE. And learning to do launch marketing and press outreach has been a fantastic learning experience too. Not to mention all the fantastic people i've met and had the chance to hit up for advice along the way! Thanks, Jonathan Wegener, ExitStrategyNYC.com PS I'll let you know when I buy my first boat, err, I mean, jumpstart the next stage of my tech empire :) Hey Amanda,
Thanks for the blog mention! Very insightful and interesting comments. You’re right, Exit Strategy NYC was bootstrapped and done on a shoestring budget: borrowed android and blackberry phones from friends, hired two developers primarily on equity and the third cheaply overseas via odesk, used 99designs for affordable logo design etc. I’m proud to say I developed an app across three different mobile platforms on an extremely tight budget.

I’m not sure Exit Strategy NYC will be a road to getting rich quick, but who knows! It seems a LOT of people have a fundamental aversion to paying for an app..apple’s set a bad precedent. Regardless, I’ve found the process of building and launching a product to be exhilarating and an incredible experience, and I feel super prepared for whatever venture I decided to embark on next. I’ll write a longer blog post on my own blog at somepoint, but basically this experience has taught me the most important lesson of all: how to get stuff DONE. And learning to do launch marketing and press outreach has been a fantastic learning experience too. Not to mention all the fantastic people i’ve met and had the chance to hit up for advice along the way!

Thanks,
Jonathan Wegener, ExitStrategyNYC.com

PS I’ll let you know when I buy my first boat, err, I mean, jumpstart the next stage of my tech empire :)

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