Hello,<p>I have a startup idea (a web service), which I consider profitable in general. I got basic concepts of "how to finance", "what to sell in detail" and "how to implement".
So, I would consider it between the start and the middle of the seed stage.<p>But my greatest fears, beside the normal "this will fail"-fear, are to rush too early or too late to the market.<p>So my question is: When should I consider making the startup public?<p>I thought about just making the website and saying "coming soon", but in this case the "wow a new service hype" maybe gone before everything is ready.<p>Thanks for your advice.
You say you have <i>"a startup idea (a web service), which I consider profitable in general"</i>, but what does that really mean? Have you done market research, or is this based on your gut feeling?<p>If the latter, then you should do some market analysis, and one way to do this is a Dry Test. (It's not the only way, of course.) Except for dry testing, I don't see any reason to make a "coming soon" website, if you haven't got an MVP in place.<p>Once you have an MVP, by all means, launch. The sooner you get real customers using the service, the quicker you can get feedback, and iterate.