Our Odd Startup: 3½ Guys, No VC, Profitability, and Patience
My Odd Startup!<p>One guy, no VC, patience, problem identified, for solution, crucial secret sauce found and scalable, production quality code written, alpha test in progress, meager burn rate, no users or revenue yet.<p>Problem?  One where the first good solution should be a &quot;must have&quot; for nearly everyone on the Internet.<p>Solution?  An excellent solution now with a high technological barrier to entry and later with some strong network effects.<p>Solution appears to the users as just a simple Web site that looks good on everything with a Web browser up to date as of maybe 10 years ago and from just 24,000 programming language statements.<p>Platform?  Microsoft&#x27;s .NET Framework 4.0 with ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Visual Basic .NET, and a little use of C via <i>platform invoke</i>.<p>Potential?  If people like  the solution, then in line to be the first company worth $1T.