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I still dont understand exactly what you are trying to ''sell'' but i understand that you might be trying to protect your idea with some vagueness. In view of the above i can say the following. 1. Use facebook connect and allow users to post their activities on their wall (not automatically though because you'll be banned) 2. Target 2 schools close to each other and ensure scholars in those schools use whatever it is you ''selling'' 3.Get inside info on the popular kids in that school and pay them to use your app for a month or 2.

Before i can lend an opnion i would like to know what is the aim of this site.Are you creating another facebook or what? And why would people want to use your site ,whats in it for them?

The Facebook Autobot is going to kill this app..hell Zuckerberg will do it himself..careful guys

1st thing they should do is to drop the ''Google'' and call it Plus-Its clean

The best shit ever. I feel like God when i take that pill

as far as email being social media's secret i disagree to some extent. Alooot of people disable email notification on most ''Social media'' type sites.

As far as the article goes i really didnt understand its objective. It felt like i was reading an intro to something interesting and then it ended.

Honestly this is like trying to sell pages off your own personal diary. Im going to say from my POV there is no way you can make serious money of of this.Google adsense yes but we all know how that goes if you have low traffic. BUT if you can gather an Audience and after that write a book about this..your blog audience could spread the word about ''the guy who defied the odds''

A person asking such a question shouldnt be building stuff for profit in the first place.

How will competition comeabout if no one sets the trends in india and inspire more people to keep it homegrown instead of seeking the ''American Dream'' If you cant make it where there is no competition youll neva make it where there is.

Why Bother with what people in NY are doing. You think Chineese startups are craving to be NY or they do their own thing in a market they know best. I can bet if you moved to NY you'll regret your decision.

You should be thankful that India is not like the US where everyone and their grandmother wants to want to make ''apps''.Atleast in India you have breathing space to perfect your craft and product without much competition.

One of the best articles i ever read on startup Marketing.

lol

I dont know about this really. Buying a record label nowadays is like buying a social networking site- Its waste of cash

screenshots!!! ,screenshots!! Did i say screenshots!!!!...Because right now i dont know how the F the site works.

and the HN addiction is not making it easy

7 years in KZN 5 years In Jozi the Rest in Mpumalanga. Yes you are right at night safety levels drop but i think its like that in most developed countries too.But what are you doing walking at night anyways boet? Alone nogal

Thats BS.South Africa does have a high crime rate i agree but its not as drastic as people make it out to be.

Are you refering to Twangoo?

One word OperaMini. That would be +- 11million. As for credit cards forget that people dont need those to buy online.Bank Deposits work. Just like New Zealand and China. I dont own a credit card but i buy alot from the Prophecy and Sybaritic I also got Paypal linked with my FNB. Moral of the story lets stop with the Telkom and Creditcard excuses and start building shit relevant to the Whole of SA.

Im fresh out of Varsity(UJ) and i have done surveys (informal) at varsity ,all the people i have surveyed (black,coloured and indian) have never bought a single thing online.I ask them why and they tell me ''We dont have credit cards'',i then tell them ''but you can use bank deposits '' they still wont budge.Now if these groups of people who make up majority of the population and aslo the group with the largest buying power(Gen Y) are not buying online;this means that eCommerce in SA has a long way to go.

I personal don't even regard our eCommerce Market as having begun yet.But i do shop online now and then. Im also working on a couple of projects and startups to address the confidence issues that the majority and youth have about the internet.

PS Iam a black Attorney lol

I doubt you need that much($40 mill) funding in SA. Look at Mxit for example do you think they need that much? What SA needs is younger people getting in on The Techscene instead of finding safe jobs at the Banks,Lawfirms and accountancy Firms.

I doubt Twangoo will be around in SA for more than 2 years.Group buying will never catch in SA until there is one online payment system that EVERYBODY uses as well confidence in eCommerce.

PS I read an article on mybroadband about false pricing by businesses on Twangoo.I feel that things like this will hinder the growth of the group buying model in SA.

It depends on the type of startup, your own skills and stress tolerance level.I would support going at it alone ,if its possible to do so and circumstances permit. Whats the point of trying to get people on board as cofounders is you the only one who has the vision.Those people will not be motivated as you are and wont be so passionate.

I read your comment 4 times but i still dont understand its relevance.Bragging about being an early adopter is one of those ''Guy Things'', think ''My gun is bigger then yours''

I cant wait to tell people in about 2 years time when TSF is a household name that ''I was there when these guys only had like 160k pageviews a month and only $500 in revenue''

Sometimes one hopes to that some fool(the last one) will fall for the cool idea and buy it while you know very well its not going to make a single dime.

to add to that i would also say that if you dont put yourself out there,go out meet people and the ideas(in the context of this post) will flow.Sitting at the office or at home waiting ideas to flow wont help one bit.

So in short.Instead of trying to invent the wheel just invent tires. I like this approach,but its very tempting for us young entreprenuers to Invent (idea) .

One thing i hate the most about it especially on techcruch is that a person using Operamini cant view any post on techcrunch because (i think) the FB plugin screws up with Operamini.One cannot see the comments and also the page just goes blue. I hope they fix this

I think Techcrunch is community driven because you read the comments more then the actual posts themselves.How many times have you ''Skip To comments'' on TC