- Send 400+ SMS text messages a month
- Watch 1-2 hours a week TV (with advertising removed, DVR/TIVO)
- All own Apple iPods (and wouldn't consider changing)
- All buy stuff online (clothes, electronics, stuff) with either their own debit card or their parents credit card
- Most use Firefox or Safari, with some form of popup blocker / banner advertising remover
- All use myspace or facebook or both
- All see email as best for a formal communication (teachers, parents, work) and recieve 5-10 email a day.
- 1/2 use IM, those that do have an avg of 5 windows open
- 10% owned game consoles or played online gaming - as a social activity
- None knew what RSS was
- All read blogs
- 90% used Microsoft Office as an "integral part" of work/study/homework
- 50% Owned Apple Mac Laptops as their personal computer
Guy Kawasaki talks web entrepreneurship with the founders of
- hi5.com ( Social Networking / Travel)
- Fark.com (Social News & Humor)
- Slide.com (Flash photosharing tool)
- PlentyOfFish.com (Dating Site)
- HotOrNot.com (Web voting / Dating)
- SuicideGirls.com (Dating, Soft porn)
All top 500 WWW websites by traffic (Alexa.com) and all bootstrapped by their founders
Interesting to hear their stories: The main points were:
- Make something people want
- You don't own you website, your visitors/customers do
- Try several iterations of your product / business model to get it right
- Luck is a big factor (or being in the right place at the right time)
- Do what you love (improves your stickiness to work on the cause)
- Starting a startup is like agreeing to become BiPolar