I'd say that you're really over-thinking this. Just pick one of those three site ideas, keep a narrow focus, do a good job executing it, and expand from there.
Nothing "hits the market" as a giant network. It's a process of accumulated growth. Envato, GigaOm, Techcrunch, etc. all started as a single sites which through growth and good content were able to expand into the giant things. If your primary focus is the "service" then just stay focused on that with maybe a simple side blog or something, or an aggregator of different startup news sites with commentary, etc.
Also, there needs to be something that separates your content sites from all of the aforementioned sites. Why would I find the content on your site interesting vs. any of the ones you listed or thestartupfoundry, or sprouter. If you answer that with "my content will be better" then you may need to re-evaluate the market.
As long as you don't decide to completely rebrand the site and call it "quikster," it shouldn't be a problem to separate the content once you see how everything works out.
Thanks I checked out those sites too and added them to my list of competition for startup news that I've been making.
With your advice I think it would be better to focus on my service based website for now, and let a blog / guides develop on there. Since there is no well-made competition that exists for it. (Either it's an implementation failure or there's simply not a market, but we'll find out after I iterate. :)
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I'd say that you're really over-thinking this. Just pick one of those three site ideas, keep a narrow focus, do a good job executing it, and expand from there.
Nothing "hits the market" as a giant network. It's a process of accumulated growth. Envato, GigaOm, Techcrunch, etc. all started as a single sites which through growth and good content were able to expand into the giant things. If your primary focus is the "service" then just stay focused on that with maybe a simple side blog or something, or an aggregator of different startup news sites with commentary, etc.
Also, there needs to be something that separates your content sites from all of the aforementioned sites. Why would I find the content on your site interesting vs. any of the ones you listed or thestartupfoundry, or sprouter. If you answer that with "my content will be better" then you may need to re-evaluate the market.
As long as you don't decide to completely rebrand the site and call it "quikster," it shouldn't be a problem to separate the content once you see how everything works out.
Thanks I checked out those sites too and added them to my list of competition for startup news that I've been making.
With your advice I think it would be better to focus on my service based website for now, and let a blog / guides develop on there. Since there is no well-made competition that exists for it. (Either it's an implementation failure or there's simply not a market, but we'll find out after I iterate. :)