スタートアップ企業への出資で近年注目を集めている、シリコンバレーのベンチャー・キャピタル「Y Combinator」。「Y Combinator 出資申し込みフォーム」日本語訳の記事にInspireされたので、この投稿では、開発者の視点でAndroidアプリの戦略や企画に活かせる点を考えます。
以下は、原版のY Combinator Funding Application | Summer 2007からAndroidアプリ開発に関連しそうな項目を抽出し、開発者向けに意訳したものです。各項目は、自作アプリを披露するようなイベントでのチェック項目としても活用できるかもしれません。
Androidアプリの開発は、手軽に始められるメリットがある反面、競合が世界中にいるため、戦略や企画の段階から差別化を意識し、開発の方向性を定めることが重要だと考えています。
Androidアプリ版 Y Combinator出資申込フォーム
※英文は原版どおり。和文はAndroidアプリ版として意訳。
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Please list your company’s name, url (if any) and phone number (preferably cell). Androidアプリの名前、URL、コンタクト先。 What is your company going to make? For each founder, please list: YC username; name; age; year, school, degree, and subject for each degree; email address; personal url (if any); and present employer and title (if any). Please tell us in one or two sentences something about each founder that shows a high level of ability. What’s new about what you’re doing? What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don’t get? What are people forced to do now because what you plan to make doesn’t exist yet? How will you make money? Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear most? For founders who are hackers: what cool things have you built? (Include urls if possible.) How long have the founders known one another and how did you meet? What tools will you use to build your project? If you’ve already started working on it, how long have you been working and how many lines of code (if applicable) have you written? If you have an online demo, what’s the url? How long will it take before you have a prototype? A beta? A version you can charge for? Which companies would be most likely to buy you? If one wanted to buy you three months in (August 2007), what’s the lowest offer you’d take? Why would your project be hard for someone else to duplicate? Do you have any ideas you consider patentable? What might go wrong? (This is a test of imagination, not confidence.) If you’ll have any major expenses beyond the living costs of your founders, Internet access, and servers, what will they be? If by August 2007 your startup seems to have a significant (say 20%) chance of making you rich, which of the founders would commit to working on it full-time for the next several years? Was any of your code written by someone who is not one of your founders? If so, how can you safely use it? (Open source is ok of course.) If you had any other ideas you considered applying with, feel free to list them. One may be something we’ve been waiting for. Please tell us something surprising or amusing that one of you has discovered. (The answer need not be related to your project.) |
TODO
- 各項目について、現状を整理する
- フォーカスすべき項目、イマイチな状況の項目について、アクションプランを立てる
- アクションしまくる
個人的には、より差別化を意識するために、「自分が開発しようとするアプリがまだないために、現在ユーザーが強いられていること。」にフォーカスしたいと思います。

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