Note: I have never launched a website before, when I launched CapitalCents, I was also in the process of making this fine site, which I am quite found of. Lots of lessons were learned...

Well it looks like I went out of order I devoted an entire post to the RFP after I talked about how I decided to outsource the project. Who knows maybe it's not out of order but here are links to the entire story of CapitalCents.

The Vision Pt1
The Pitch Pt2
Outsourcing
The RFP

It's been awhile but I am finally back, no tests, no broken computer; calm waters have finally returned.

So in my last post about CapitalCents, I talked about how I pitched my team and we did a lot of work to go from some idea in my brain and made a real business out of it. The whole process was a lot of work but seriously probably one of the most rewarding and fun things I have ever done. At the end of the project I had a great marketing (real close to a business) plan that I could run with and try to make dream into reality.

The last post about CapitalCents was about how I really got the project out of my brain and on some electrons, with a bunch of free labor, agh um I mean smart MBA student friends of mine. Now let's talk about how a guy who knew NOTHING and I mean nothing about making a website, web hosting, or anything else HTML related got a site up on the internet.

My first problem was I had a really good business plan but no knowledge how to make it real. So I evaluated my options which consisted of the following...

In my last post I talked about how I pitched my team the CapitalCents idea. Having three other very smart, hungry and determined fellow MBA students to help me get my idea off the ground was a wonderful stroke of good fortune. Not only where they willing to help me but they had incentive in the form of a grade for our work! Our goal was to create a marketing plan, if you have never created a marketing plan, I'll go into some detail as to what that is.

This will be the first of a four part series about my foray into Entrepreneurship and the major steps I took to make a vision become a reality. The model can be followed by anyone the road is rocky but well worth the journey. Ask yourself what do you have to lose?