Another blogged startup - Ringside Startup
Steve Poland, of Techquila Shots is starting Ringside Startup and also blogging about the process. Rather than just telling readers what is happening though, he is encouraging them to participate in business decisions and has a number of advisors on board to educate them on what is happening.
“I’m raising $20,000 from readers/sponsors — to enlighten everyone’s entrepreneurship education. With the contributions, I’m going to launch a web start-up (one of the Techquila Shots ideas) and blog the entire journey. … The goal is for entrepreneurs to learn from all the processes and obstacles I go through — and gaining insight along the way from seasoned professionals.”
So no only is he blogging about it, he also has a good plan of how to raise money! If you have read Techquila Shots you will see that quite a few of his ideas are explained in quite a lot of detail, so I think he will do well - although other people do not agree.
The site officially launched last Sunday night, and unfortunately things didn’t go so well. Steve pointed out that he got the site onto Digg too early and also choose to announce his startup at the busiest time of the week for bloggers.
Anyway, keep an eye on this as I expect Ringside Startup will be getting a lot of press in the next few weeks!