Crowd Funding in SA?

[wynn]

Cimmerian
It seems you have a rather deep knowledge of programming, so use that knowledge to set up lots of small websites that attract a lot of hits add the relevant google ads, build up a war chest from these while you perfect the main business, when the time is right move on it.
You have time on your side and the world is your oyster.

[Cimmerian]

Cimmerian
It seems you have a rather deep knowledge of programming, so use that knowledge to set up lots of small websites that attract a lot of hits add the relevant google ads, build up a war chest from these while you perfect the main business, when the time is right move on it.
You have time on your side and the world is your oyster.

I've done that before, and it's not really good money. First of all, one has to find a niche and then get a top ranking domain - which takes about 6 months of work for each "small" website. Second, everyone else is doing this. Third, it's not the type of programming I enjoy. It is boring, tedious work. The programming that I know and love involves solving problems. Real problems that other people are facing. I would much rather take the investment approach.

[cyppok]

Well, you are very bright or at least seem to be, you are driven and enthusiastic, you even make money right now which I am not doing at all.

However, it is very very very hard to get funding for any startup that want's to deal with the music industry at large. Kickstarter seems like the best bet for your co-founder on your two behalfs. Second any equity you get without traction will be very dilutive.

I am sure you know angel.co and http://venturehacks.com/ and others that are similar in nature. My feeling is that taking money is usually not a good thing because you become beholden to others.
I liked watching you tubes of David Heinemeier Hanson (DHH) on the subject.

Also the founder of duckduckgo.com has good thoughts on starting up ye.gg (his blog)

and I am back to my old cynical self.
any suggestions on learning Ruby? because thus far all I thought about was making a simple site one of those traffic seeking semi-blogs with a store outlet.

Been trying to find an easy way to have/make a semi-automated archive for blog posts without going to 3rd party like wordpress or anything like that. Any suggestions? (other than learning php)

[vieome]

great site for venture capital info http://www.paulgraham.com/