Startup Next Door

I guess so. I’ve started my own web-based business more than once. I’ve succeeded and I’ve failed, but the successes have made the failures worth it.

I’m John Washam. I’m a web programmer, startup junkie, and lifelong friend of the coffee bean.

My startups are different than most. I’m the VC, the chairman, the programmer, the marketing department, the copywriter, everything. No employees, no office space. But I make money because I work hard to create services that people like. With the right business model, some of those people pay me.

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StartupNextDoor is a site for small business that thinks big.

If you work at a startup that has VC or Angel funding in the millions of dollars, is featured on TechCrunch, has scaled for 500 million monthly page views and is hoping to be the next Facebook/EBay/Craigslist, your company will not be featured here.  Enjoy your nice office space and good luck with that IPO.

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