I'm starting a new magazine, The Startup Magazine

by bearwithclaws • 15 years ago

123 33 15 years ago

jannes• 15 years ago

I'd definitely love to see this. But the name might be confusing, as there's already an app called "Startup Magazine" on the iPad app store.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/startup-magazine/id438439533?...

It seems to be made by some guys from the Netherlands. This is their website: http://startupmagazine.net/

bearwithclaws7• 15 years ago

Yeah, I noticed that after I've decided to use the name. There's also a magazine called "Startups" from Entrepreneur (the magazine that sues entrepreneur http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2578592).

It is actually really hard to find a good (and memorable) magazine name with available domain name. But instead of keep looking for the perfect name, I've decided to stick with this first and focus on producing the magazine.

teadrinker2• 15 years ago

How are you going to make money from this venture?

elb0w• 15 years ago

Just don't start suing people for using the word "Startup" like some other entrepreneur(ial) magazine.

milanvrekic4• 15 years ago

He is talking about Entrepreneur Magazine. Yes, Entrepreneur Magazine sues Entrepreneurs for use of the word.

Let's repeat that again; Entrepreneur Magazine is a magazine that sues entrepreneurs.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_22/b42300781...

razin• 15 years ago

It was all a dream. I used to read (The) Startup magazine.

joshuahays3• 15 years ago

Have I got a story to tell. I'm a founder of a bootstrapped startup in Central Florida, which is by all means on the opposite side of the world when it comes to tech. Got a great product and an excellent team but just struggling to break through. Southeast tech struggles.

bearwithclaws7• 15 years ago

Please drop an email to contribute@thestartupmagazine.com

joshuahays3• 15 years ago

Will do for sure.

joshuahays3• 15 years ago

Sent.

dools• 15 years ago

Southeast tech struggles

Hehe try doing it from Australia

milanvrekic4• 15 years ago

I will give you hipstartup.com if you want a shorter (better?) name.

EDIT: LOL, I offer a free domain name and get downvoted :P gotta love HN.

EDIT2: Now, to troll, everyone is upvoting me :)

bearwithclaws7• 15 years ago

Thanks for the offer, man. But I was looking for something else that describes typical startups (don't think all startups are "hip"...whichever meaning the word implies).

(Believe it or not) I initially wanted to name the magazine "HUSTLE".

milanvrekic4• 15 years ago

Someone is squatting on Hustle.com That would be a cool name.

danielhodgins• 15 years ago

Why not hustlemag.com? I think Hustle Magazine is a stronger name with some edge to it.

justin_vanw• 15 years ago

What's a magazine? Is it like a blog except where you mail it out every month?

bearwithclaws7• 15 years ago

Print magazine, just like http://hackermonthly.com. Except it's unique content.

If you really need a sample, take a look at this (free digital download): http://hackermonthly.com/startup-stories.html

Again, the articles in The Startup Magazine will be 100% unique, and it will have a whole new design diff from Hacker Monthly.

milanvrekic4• 15 years ago

What is the readership number of hacker monthly?

swanson• 15 years ago

One nitpick I have with Hacker Monthly is that I get the digital copy a lot faster than the physical copy. A day or two difference is okay, but I myself reading the digital copy before the physical copy arrives.

I don't know how much of this is caused by the just-in-time nature of MagCloud, but it would be ideal if the physical would arrive on the first of the month or if the digital issue could be delayed by a few days.

I love getting the physical copy, but the delivery leaves a bit to be desired. I think this aspect is important if you really want to become like a traditional magazine and not just blog articles printed out and bound every 30 (+/- 10) days.

bearwithclaws7• 15 years ago

Make sense. Noted.

Two reasons: 1)It took me a whole month to produce the issue. 2)MagCloud needed more time to process the large group order we placed.

Solution: I could try shorten the time to produce it and will work with the MagCloud team to see how do we ship it in time.

jkuria• 15 years ago

I just subscribed and look forward to receiving issues. One challenge you might have is consistently coming up with good stories. Hacker News started out as Startup News but in PG's words (paraphrased) they quickly got bored of just startup stories and sought to broaden it by making it about more than just startups--and renamed it Hacker News. I believe TechCrunch also started out with this mission but after the initial few months kind of lost steam and realized that they got more pageviews by attacking established companies. Arrington has been quoted saying he'd like to someday create a site about just startups. I'm not sure how he will make it successful this time.

heyrhett• 15 years ago

I'm starting a new magazine about starting startup magazines.

dualogy• 15 years ago

Yo dawg I herd u...

acabal• 15 years ago

Great idea. Some nitpicking: your logo looks extremely reminiscent of the National Geographic logo. You might want to give some though to changing that.

jeggers5• 15 years ago

Having a "Why the hell didn't I think of this" moment.

Love it; from what I understand it's basically a HN magazine full of start up (success and dismal failure) stories?

Can't wait to see it, good luck guys :)

Edit: Just gave you your 100'th upvote, I hope this means I get early access :P

I'm starting a new magazine, The Startup Magazine

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