Yes. I moved to Goa to prototype a process-flow document organization system for attorneys, for my first startup. The plan was to... get clients and then build the full deal in Bagnalore. I talked about it... here: http://www.hackerne.ws/item?id=518075 The 'paper' on the product is here: http://lucision.com/legal/Hammurabi_Writeup.pdf It never took off.
The short version is: you can't ALL leave. Someone needs to be near your market, whatever that is. You've got to be iterating products. Even for an internet company, I am skeptical that this can be done in isolation.
That being said, Costa Rica or some place cheap to get to/from is probably a better idea than... India :)
All in all, it was a great experience. I... learned Java, did a lot of catching up on things like design patterns to be able to work in Eclipse, etc. I learned... those startup things you learn the first time round. But being stuck in India when my attorney friend stopped answering my emails meant I was SOL on that product concept, and I could not iterate from India. I ended up doing something entirely different, but I couldn't even get to another product idea from there. I had to come home.
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Yes. I moved to Goa to prototype a process-flow document organization system for attorneys, for my first startup. The plan was to... get clients and then build the full deal in Bagnalore. I talked about it... here: http://www.hackerne.ws/item?id=518075 The 'paper' on the product is here: http://lucision.com/legal/Hammurabi_Writeup.pdf It never took off.
The short version is: you can't ALL leave. Someone needs to be near your market, whatever that is. You've got to be iterating products. Even for an internet company, I am skeptical that this can be done in isolation.
That being said, Costa Rica or some place cheap to get to/from is probably a better idea than... India :)
All in all, it was a great experience. I... learned Java, did a lot of catching up on things like design patterns to be able to work in Eclipse, etc. I learned... those startup things you learn the first time round. But being stuck in India when my attorney friend stopped answering my emails meant I was SOL on that product concept, and I could not iterate from India. I ended up doing something entirely different, but I couldn't even get to another product idea from there. I had to come home.