fifteen years of startup life in 15 minutes
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March 23, 2011Stephen WangChief Technology Officer, Co-Founderhttp://[email protected]
Fifteen years of startup life in 15 minutes
• About alivenotdead.com
• Prior co-founded companies•College-run startup•Design Reactor•Rotten Tomatoes•XMFish.com•Alivenotdead.com
• Take aways•Follow your passion•Work with talented friends•Find the right market
Contents
What is alivenotdead.com?
alivenotdead.com is
• An international community dedicated to artists and their fans.
• 600,000+ members
• 1,700+ artists
alivenotdead.com: a few of our artists
Daniel WuJet Li Nicholas Tse Karen Mok Van Ness Wu Linda Chung
Lisa S.Fiona Xie Vincent Kok Mavis Fan Josie Ho Paul Wong
Rosanne WongRace Wong Ella Koon Ankie Beilke JJ Candy Lo
Cherrie YingAndrew Lin 24 Herbs Ana R. Michael Wong Justin Lo
Kelly HuKhalil Fong James Kyson Lee Aimee Chan Sam Lee MC Jin
alivenotdead.com: a few of our artists
Daniel WuJet Li Nicholas Tse Karen Mok Van Ness Wu Linda Chung
Lisa S.Fiona Xie Vincent Kok Mavis Fan Josie Ho Paul Wong
Rosanne WongRace Wong Ella Koon Ankie Beilke JJ Candy Lo
Cherrie YingAndrew Lin 24 Herbs Ana R. Michael Wong Justin Lo
Kelly HuKhalil Fong James Kyson Lee Aimee Chan Sam Lee MC Jin
Functionality of alivenotdead.com - Artists
• Communicate with fans
• Network with other artists
• Promote projects
• Find jobs
• Sell products
College-run apartment startup
• Surrounded by entrepreneurs
• Ask help from really talented friends
• A great way to pay the bills
Design Reactor
Leading entertainment web design agency
Do a startup when you can afford to starve and the only way you can go is up
It’s easier to find talented friends when they’re all unemployed
Rotten Tomatoes
• The premier destination for movie buffs and casual film-goers alike
• 8.2 million monthly unique visitors
• 60 million monthly page views
• Acquired by IGN.com/Fox Interactive Media
Rotten Tomatoes
The best lessons are learned in hard times.
Bad times are always around the corner. Make sure your friends are there, too.
XMFish.com
Started as Dianping competitor, but is now online community for Xiamen
300K+ unique visitors a day, 2.8M pageviews/day
Find what works and make it number one
When you get comfortable, it’s time to move.
Alivenotdead.com
Rotten Tomatoes team partners with Daniel Wu 吴彦祖 to build a service for artists and their fans.
Arrived in Beijing October 2009 and we are currently pivoting the company to a new platform, Alive.cn.
Find me… we’re looking for PHP engineers!
Thank you and I hope to meet more entrepreneurs from this audience!
Stephen [email protected]