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In 2006, my business partners and I were sitting in a dasha (a cabin in Ukraine), enjoying a bit of Ukrainian culture ☺ and letting the ideas flow.
One problem we always ran into? We could never seem to get a cab after meetings.
That day, we came up with the idea: My Yellow Button.
A simple concept. A single yellow button on your phone that would summon a nearby driver using GPS.
We even mocked it up and started the process – checking trademarks, registering a domain name. The works.
But the weeks passed. The company kept focusing on what it had always done – building games. And like that, the idea faded away.
Ten years later, we sold that business for a scratch – no money gained, no money lost.
But the idea? It didn’t die. It just got picked up by others. Uber. Lyft.
That’s the billion-dollar idea that got away.
Don’t be the person who says, “That was my idea.”
It’s time to act. To move from stuck… to start.
At Startup Club, we’ve built the most actionable startup checklist out there.
Here are the first 10 steps to get you going:
- Write down your idea.
- Define your business’s purpose.
- Identify the space you want to own.
- Determine what will get your business on the first page of Google.
- Name your idea.
- Check the Trademark Database.
- Register the domain.
- Create a logo matching my intended brand style.
- Set up a business email and phone number.
- Join an incubator.
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