http://www.24hour-startup.com 26 Nov - 27 Nov 2009 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:23:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Been a few weeks since the last post, but it is pretty hard to write when you're constantly stuffed to the gills with turkey, ham, beef, cheese etc. Aaaanyway - there have been some awesomely exciting developments happening with 24hour-startup 2010, as we've already got a couple of meetings lined up ... http://www.24hour-startup.com/2010/01/18/developing-24hour-startup-2010/ So, after the eBay sale, and all the hype, our attention is turning to what we do next with www.24hour-startup.com. People have asked us if we'd do it again... and while we all thought it was awesome, and would recommend it to anyone, the general feeling is that we've done it ... http://www.24hour-startup.com/2009/12/08/the-future/ Wasn't Sunday morning fun, eh? The entire of the 24hour-startup team, plus a good 50 or so auction followers were glued to the eBay auction, and over-using the "Refresh" button as the auction counted down. Personally, I was on a 3-way iPhone con call with Dave and Nick (that's just how ... http://www.24hour-startup.com/2009/12/08/sold-to-the-men-in-the-football-team/ Just got time to sneak in a quick update. There's only 16 hours to go on the eBay auction for DrHue.com... I'M SO EXCITED, AND I JUST CAN'T HIDE IT. I'M ABOUT TO LOSE CONTROL AND I THINK I LIKE IT! --- Bidding has topped $1,000! There are now over 9,500 products on ... http://www.24hour-startup.com/2009/12/05/saturday-16-hours-left/ Apologies for the radio silence. We're all back in our normal (non-24hr) day jobs, and trying to keep up with this while cracking briefs for our clients! Anyway, there's 2 days left on our eBay auction and we just*had* to blog about developments. Bidding war: We got to the office this morning and ... http://www.24hour-startup.com/2009/12/04/friday-2-days-to-go-and-things-are-getting-hot/ This is the first in a series of posts that are going to countdown to DrHue.com's eventual sale on eBay. (For the uninitiated, DrHue.com is the product of 24hour-startup.com a rather crazy project to conceive, design and build a web-based business in 24 hours.) The auction is set to end ... http://www.24hour-startup.com/2009/11/30/monday-7-days-to-find-a-buyer/ OK, so it's now Monday, and after sleeping for most of the weekend I now finally have the strength to write about the last few hours of our 24hour-startup.com adventure. --- The frantic rush to get a working Beta up Wow. I think I can honestly say that none of us have ever ... http://www.24hour-startup.com/2009/11/30/hours-20-24-the-final-rush/ UK shoppers spent over £4.67bn online in December 2008 – 14.2% up on December 2007. In fact, a total of £43.6 billion was spent online across the whole of 2008.That's a lot of money. More often than not online shoppers search for and filter products based on rational considerations such as ... http://www.24hour-startup.com/2009/11/27/exec-summary/ First question - whose exit strategy? Ours? Or the lucky winning bidders?! Well, our exit strategy is easy - just check out the ebay auction... However, let's say for example, while you're there you place a (whopping) bid and win Dr Hue, the brand, website, business plan and all. And you do ... http://www.24hour-startup.com/2009/11/27/exit-strategy-sell-it-to-amazon/ Don't make films on 24 hour benders. from NonsenseLondon on Vimeo. http://www.24hour-startup.com/2009/11/27/uh-oh-will-made-a-film-when-he-was-tired/