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- Weekly Feedback and Support Thread
- This is what you should know about startups and tech in overall
- Blog post - How to Validate Your Startup Idea
- We're giving away freebies and people don't believe us. How can we overcome this perception?
- The content or the container?
- We've created a massively horizontal product. How to find customers when it's difficult to even pitch?
- Should I or not? Mid-size company wants to acquire my VERY young tech company.
- How do you personally / professionally save information to use and reference later?
- How to start a traffic lead generation business?
- Personal data power shift
| Weekly Feedback and Support Thread Posted: 29 Jan 2018 03:08 AM PST Create something? Let's see it! Feedback or Support RequesterPlease use the following format:
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| This is what you should know about startups and tech in overall Posted: 29 Jan 2018 09:37 AM PST Advertising
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| Blog post - How to Validate Your Startup Idea Posted: 29 Jan 2018 04:38 AM PST You've been sitting on that idea for a while. That idea that can change the world. You keep wondering what if. What if I don't try this. It drives you a little nuts. You have to give it a try. You have to build this thing. But you don't want to spend a bunch of resources building something no one wants. Here are some simple steps to lower the chances of doing that and instead making sure you give this thing your best swing. 1) Distill your entire product down to 1–2 features. Your first version should be a feature instead of a product. Figure out what 1 feature summarizes the entire product. 2) Build your first version. Build something so simple and basic, something that covers that 1 feature. Something that validates the hypothesis of your idea. 3) Push it out there right away. Don't spend time cleaning it up and making it awesome. You have to get it out there. Don't be embarrassed or apologetic. Just toss it out there. 4) Aggressively market the heck out of it for 3 months. Post about it in every forum you can find. Annoy all your friends and family. Do the most random things, the most unconventional things to get the word out there. 5) Measure the results. Were you able to get a good 500 users? Are people coming back to use the product again? Are your users enthusiastic? After 3 months, you should have some basic feeling on whether this thing is gonna float or not. If you feel like it's doing good, congrats! You know this is something people want/need. Now you can slowly add features that your enthusiastic users want, and that will actually make the product more awesome. Good days are ahead 🙂 If you feel like it's not doing good, give yourself a pat on the back. You had the guts to give this thing a try. Now you aren't wondering what if. You learned a great deal of things. The next swing you'll take will be more accurate. Good days are still ahead 🙃 Remember, it's all a game of trial and error. You have to pace yourself through the good and bad. You have to remain optimistic and persistent. You have to keep trusting that good days are ahead. May you find greatness in your endeavors 🙏🏞 [link] [comments]  |
| We're giving away freebies and people don't believe us. How can we overcome this perception? Posted: 29 Jan 2018 10:50 PM PST We've launched a shopping app about a month ago. To celebrate the launch, we would give away freebie codes, so people can just open up the app, enter the code and get a freebie. It's a physical product they can order and we will ship it for free to their doorstep. Worldwide. Sounds too good to be true? Well, that's exactly what a good number of people were saying. Yet, it was (and still is) entirely true. How can we overcome the fact that folks are so suspicious about us giving away freebies? Any advise is appreciated :) Quick summary: We have a shopping app where all products are hand curated (by quality and seller reputation), cost under US$10 and ship for free worldwide. P.S.: Just trying to pick some brains here :) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2018 11:11 AM PST "Your business needs a good website." I often say this to my coaching students. However, I declined a web design project even though I needed the money at that time. Why? Though I love designing websites, I am more passionate about helping businesses launch and grow. So when I get the opportunity to design a site, it needs to be for the right reasons. The business in quote had a few issues to address before spending such amount on a website. It's not about the short-term goals. It's about the long term. What happens after the site is launched? Do you have any funds reserved for marketing? Or coaching? A website is a must for a business looking to build an online presence, but you need to have the bigger picture in mind. You aren't building a website because everyone else has one. You are building a website to promote your brand and increase your audience. Has anyone come across this situation with clients? I'd like to know your thoughts. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2018 12:44 PM PST I'm working at a startup where we've created a comprehensive business process automation platform. If that sounds vague, that's because it is. I have difficulty pitching the idea; the platform solves a wide class of problems, and people are interested in solving their particular problem. The best way I can describe it is Microsoft Access meets Amazon Web Services. You can create custom forms that go to custom database tables, and you can write bits of code (similar to AWS Lambdas) that take care of all of the business logic between. We've also got reporting tools, notifications, and work dispatching. Now, your eyes probably glazed over during the preceding paragraph. I'm a software engineer, so I find those features sexy. But we aren't going after engineers. We are going after businesses that want to automate away things that they're probably doing in an ever-growing stack of excel files. If I can get someone to talk about their specific problems, I can explain how our platform can solve that specific problem. After that, they are usually interested, and also grasp the bigger picture of all the problems they could solve. For example: "I'm a real estate company. We have spreadsheets keeping track of bills on our units and when they were last paid. It's getting harder and harder to figure out which ones are due soon." They can drop their existing spreadsheet into our system, then we create a couple of simple forms to enter in billing data for their units. After that, write and schedule a process to check every morning for bills that are almost due and send out an email. But how do I find these people? They usually don't know to search for an automation platform, and we don't know what companies are silently growing out of their spreadsheets. Our best source of leads has been people we know from doing software consulting work. The class of problems we solve is wide enough that usually we can sell existing clients on some form of the platform. Branching out, I've been scouring freelance sites like upwork looking for people we could help. Real estate companies have been great leads, because they almost always have these types of growing pains. Anyway, do you guys have any ideas for finding clients? [link] [comments]  |
| Should I or not? Mid-size company wants to acquire my VERY young tech company. Posted: 29 Jan 2018 09:37 AM PST My co-founders and I started a tech company less than a year ago. We are two developers and one business/sales/marketing guy. Our product is in an old industry and is at an MVP stage. Everything works (even-though not perfect) and we are slowly bringing in customers. A mid-size company is really interested in merging us into their current company (same industry), but I have no idea how we would value the company. We don't have a lot of revenue yet, given our size, but are constantly growing (slow but steadily). What are your thoughts? I have no idea where to start. [link] [comments]  |
| How do you personally / professionally save information to use and reference later? Posted: 29 Jan 2018 11:23 AM PST Say an instruction of how to fix a part on your car or the procedure to a business process for your team to reference, what system/software do you use for documenting/organizing/saving to reference later? i'm asking because I have yet to find a solution I am satisfied with and have an idea for a system i think would be ideal but what i'm after is a business/income stream and i just don't know if this is an itch enough other people have for it to be worth my while to build it. it's pretty tough to get answers out of people on the internet and there are some solutions out there that people seem content with (Evernote) so i'm having the darndest time trying to validate this idea short of making the investment up front to create the product and get it in front of people to see if it resonates. Anyone care to share any insight or answer my original question? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| How to start a traffic lead generation business? Posted: 29 Jan 2018 07:37 AM PST Hi r/startups, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about the best way of commercialising a lead generation business. For example, if you were starting a property aggregator, would you first try to start driving leads / traffic to estate agents websites and then commercialise it? Or would you try to strike commercial agreements and then see if you could drive leads / traffic to the estate agents websites? I'm not thinking of starting a property aggregator, I just wanted to use that for the example. Please imagine that there were no property aggregators when thinking of the answer to the question! Thank you very much for any thoughts, J [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2018 09:31 AM PST The wired 2018 world-to-come interviews came out of their paywall today. Irene Ng's claims that more personal data will be in the hands of the consumer by the time the year is out, thanks to blockchain and personal microserver technologies. From GDPR to Blockchains, we're getting more power over our data "Private-data accounts are like individual bank accounts, but they contain personal information, not money. Hosted by data stores such as people.io, Cozy.io, digi.me and the Hub of All Things, of which I am the founder and chairman, many will let us legally own our own data, bringing it in and pushing it out as we wish, without our having to identify ourselves. And they will do this automatically or at the touch of a button. Inside these accounts, our data will become our asset, one to which we can give specific access rights in return for services. This will flip today's internet (in which we give up all of this data in return for access to services) on its head." Agree? Disagree? [link] [comments]  |
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