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eddwo wrote:

Silverlight Streaming?
4GB of hosting, free bandwidth, just use the silverlight player.

Except its still Beta.

phreaks wrote:



ali_raza_shaikh wrote: Hello Guys Well, i am facing some problem regarding Video Hosting, i started a new service here in my country and because of this service, i cover alot of content on Videos. I don't want to re-invent the wheel of creating yet another video portal. Is there some kind of sponorship availabe from companies, where i am providing them the cotent and will use their player on my different websites. i know there are soapbox, youtube etc etc, but my videos are usually >100 MB what could be the possible solution?

Convert them to FLV which should reduce the size significantly.
Is that an option?

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=FLV_Video_Compression

Converter Link: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Riva_FLV_Encoder

Hello Guys

Well, i am facing some problem regarding Video Hosting, i started a new service here in my country and because of this service, i cover alot of content on Videos. I don't want to re-invent the wheel of creating yet another video portal. Is there some kind of sponorship availabe from companies, where i am providing them the cotent and will use their player on my different websites.

i know there are soapbox, youtube etc etc, but my videos are usually >100 MB

what could be the possible solution?

Lloyd_Humph wrote:

I agree with Zippy... Start small and grow. Don't be too ambitious - you'll end up being over-run. And if you do make a game company and you do make an awesome game... remember your friends on C9

Do you people prefer for doing partnerships? means a company consist of 3-4 partners?

ZippyV wrote:

Before you start a company you need to have a business plan:
- Who are your customers?
- Which market is your target?
- What will you be doing?
- What makes your company different?
- Who will you compete against?

Another tip: start small, then grow. Like if you want to start a game company, don't think you will be able to create a next-gen game as the first product.

yeah, you are right, Offshore development gives you the earning to run the software house, but to make progress, i think product development is necessary.

and which one of the following you rank the best

1. Product Development
2. Custom Software Development
3. Offshore Development

Hello Folks

I know, I am not much active on Channel9 Forums, so I think I must start participating alot in these forums as they are great source of information to me.

So, the basic reason of writing this post is to know about others perspective about my idea of starting a new startup company, the country to which I belong usually doesn’t support this idea, here there are big (as far as Pakistan is considered) companies and usually CS graduates prefer to do Job rather than start implementing their ideas.

What do you think? Is it the right decision? As far as I think, I am pretty much satisfied with my decision to start my own company. Here I am working on all the cool stuff that I want to work (while generating revenues from Offshore Development). Learning and implementing all those new technologies in the market and then impressing the customer from our way of development and user experience. My company is still only 1 month old, but I think I gain much more knowledge, experience and user interaction as compared to my 8 month boring Job in one of the Pakistan Top Software House.