After building 6 weekly ,lean startups in a row I wanted to sum up my experiences and share it with you. What are the best ways to find new business ideas, to execute them and finally to validate them? I don’t know for sure, but at least I got some good ideas 
Startup #6: MyBikeRental.com – the AirBnB for bikes
Have you ever been in a city and wanted to make a bicycle-tour? Then you will probably be annoyed by the high prices and the shabby bikes. Time to change this with my next weekly startup: MyBikeRental.com - the AirBnB for bicycles.
Startup #5: Checkout +1 – why you must test your best business idea within a week
Week #5 starts and this time I don’t want to use one of my existing business ideas, but find a complete new one. How do you generate business ideas from scratch? What are great and easy tools to use? Where do you find the best ideas? This is what I want to find out in this blog post.
Startup #4: Stratvisory – Launching a successful agency in 5 days
Is it possible to launch an agency within 5 days? Can I build a scalable startup out of it? Where do I find employees? How to get into contact with my prospects? What could I sell them?
I really don’t know the answers, but I want to find it out with my next weekly startup: Stratvisory. Read More…
Startup #3: Consulting-Cases – founded 2 years ago, now making 1.000 Dollars a month
How do you build a successful startup? Where do you get your ideas from? How do you find out if a startup works or not? How do you stay motivated after working on a startup for several months?
These were just some of the questions which people asked me via Facebook, Twitter, email or the comments section after my last startup Meet-a-Mom.
I would like to answer these question with one of my existing startups: Consulting-Cases.
Startup #2: Meet-a-Mom – how I got 30 signups in 12 hours
You want to find a great business idea? Then look for a problem that is so painful that people cobbled together an interim solution.
I have tried this for my second weekly startup and actually found an interim solution for a problem: A lot of mothers post on forums to find other mothers in their neighborhood to do joint activities. Once again: They post it on forums! Come on, that’s like looking for a new partner at Craigslist!
I thought, there must be a better solution for that.
That’s why I started my next weekly startup “Meet-a-Mom”…
Startup #1: Sharevent – $745 revenue in 14 hours of work
Wouldn’t it be cool to enjoy events with your friends, meet new people and make some money? Do you agree? Yes, me too! Therefore I launched: Sharevent, my first startup for this blog.
My week at a glance: Within 5 days I sold 22 tickets for a wine-tasting event and made $ 745,- in revenue. I built the Sharevent website and talked to 12 shop-owners, whose event I wanted to promote on our new website. 6 of them were interested, but just three took our offer.
At day 4 I presented Sharevent to the world - but did it work?
What is The Weekly Startup all about?
Have you ever tried to build your own business? Did you fail? Did you notice your failure too late? Welcome to the club!
I have built a lot of startups, and many of them failed (fortunately not all of them). Unfortunately I noticed most of the failures too late, after I spent thousand of dollars. Yeah, that’s painful.
So I asked myself: How can I decrease my failure rate? Or at least: How can I recognize a failing startup earlier?
And that’s why I started this blog: The Weekly Startup.
