I would like to present you a really  good presentation “How to Get Started as a Web Entrepreneur” made by Collis Ta’eed, CEO of Envato. It’s really worth to read.

Do you know what is a web entrepreneur?  An Web entrepreneur is an entrepreneur that applies innovation to create new businesses on the website or Internet. 

Web entrepreneurs are part of the more general category of digital/Internet entrepreneurs. Digital Entrepreneurship takes advantage of computing geniuses in general to innovate and create new ventures.

Here are some important lines from the collis presentation:

• A mission should be something that inspires you to work, and should be the reason you are tackling the business.

• I am a blogger, I like blogging, I believe in individuals working for themselves. Therefore for me the reason I’d get into this business would be:To Make Independent Publishers More Effective.

• You need to be ready to work hard.

• You need to be prepared to carry it alone even if you are planning on having cofounders

• You need to have some money to start off and/or an income to subsidize you

• Don’t get bogged down with them, but don’t skip them either

• Focus first on the essential, core of the product, Nice-to-haves can be added later

• You should have a vague idea of how you think the product will grow, but don’t over-plan or over-spec

• Lots of little startups build decent products … but go nowhere

• A mediocre product can go far with good marketing (and you can improve it as you go)

• Launching is not the end … it’s only the beginning. Now you have to build a business!

• “If you leave and everything stops, you don’t have a business, you have a job.”

• You need to be systematic in replacing yourself while still ensuring that everything keeps moving.

• If you stand still, your competitors will pass you by

• There is a never ending list of improvements and fixes and upgrades you can make. Be prepared for this

• Improving isn’t always ‘adding’, sometimes it’s removing stuff or streamlining

• In the last four years of building up Envato I’ve had the opportunity to learn a lot about growing and building web companies. So I decided to put some of my learnings into a presentation I gave at WebDU 2010 earlier this year. The talk covered how I would approach starting up from scratch, and throughout I referenced a hypothetical new startup idea and how I might approach it.