You have the next great startup idea

Your brainchild. You know the business, target users and what you want. You are funding it yourself or are well funded. What you want is a partner who can help bring your ideas to life – user experience design and/or actual development.

The principals of Newput have lived and worked in the Silicon Valley for all of our professional lives. We have all worked in startups and some of us have even started venture-backed startups. We know what it means to do a startup!

Here is what we can do for you:

• User Experience Design
• Web Development
• Rich Internet Apps/AJAX
• Offshore Development

Take a look at How We Do It - we use an approach which is based on Getting Real. Getting Real is a smaller, faster, better way to build a successful web application. Also take a look at the following books we highly recommend for entrepreneurs.

Resources and Books for Entrepreneurs

	Harvard Business Review on Entrepreneurship First things first - we highly recommend any aspiring entrepreneur to start with this book. The very first chapter The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer itself is well worth buying this book. It asks entrepreneurs to step back and think what they really want in their life - attain a certain lifestyle, experiment with technology or build an institution that can outlive them. Once these fundamental questions are answered, the book provides deep insights into the immediate next steps such as writing a great business plan, crafting effective strategies and raising money vs. bootstrapping. A must read.
	The Art of the Start We all have known about Guy Kawasaki for a long time but we heard him recently at the TiEcon 2006 - the largest conference for entrepreneurs. Boy, he knows how to energize the crowd, cut through the crap and drive his points across in a very effective, concise and very entertaining way. On his website (see below), he describes this book as the weapon of mass construction! In his own words, the book "cuts through the theoretical crap, theories and gets down to the real-world tactics of pitching, positioning, branding, recruiting, bootstrapping, and rainmaking."
	Bootstrapping Your Business OK, now that you have decided that you must start a new business, you want to raise money from angel investors or VCs. But should you? Before you answer that question, we highly recommend reading this book. In this book, Greg Gianforte, makes a compelling case for bootstrapping. The reasons may surprise you. Greg himself is a highly successful entrepreneur and bootstrapper who has built one of the fastest growing companies - RightNow Technologies. Clearly there are situations where bootstrapping won't work, e.g. startups where significant capital is required before the absolute minimum core product can be developed. But for the rest, this book is priceless.
	Getting Real Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it's a book of ideas. Anyone working on a web app — including entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, executives, or marketers — will find value and inspiration in this book. 37signals used the Getting Real process to launch five successful web-based applications (Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework, in just two years with no outside funding, no debt, and only 7 people (distributed across 7 time zones). Over 500,000 people around the world use these applications to get things done. Now you can find out how they did it and how you can do it too. It's not as hard as you think if you Get Real.