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- Advice for a startup with product but no connections!!
- Company is Considering My product for A Licensing Deal, Should I still Post Product to Social Media?
- Is it a good idea to start a junior career in startup (not at the big company)?
- Whitelabel or Build? Marketing Automation Platform For Lead Follow-Up.
- How to help a friend market his books online? Is applying lean startup techniques a good idea?
- Is the the Founder Institute program worth the time and money?
- Just launched 2 days ago. Now what?
- How to find and talk to your competitors' customers for research purposes?
| Advice for a startup with product but no connections!! Posted: 31 Jan 2018 09:29 PM PST So, A lot of people on here are multiple time startup founders who make 16 figures a day ( judging by your posts lol ) , so i want to drink from the fountain of wisdom you genorous gurus hand out all the for free. I'm a first time founder, and our product is coming out in a month or two . It's basically an app that is augmented reality couponing/advertising, and it's not that polished but it really is something to see ( being an MVP). Now usually the advice here on reddit is to take your mvp and get it on the market, but i don't think that this app will work as well as i want it to w/out economies of scale, so this is the perfect use case for vcs and angels. so, getting to the point and not making this another state of the union speech, what should i do to get angels and vcs who are into this field . are pitch decks outre and too old fashion? Whats a stodgy midwesterner like me have to know about the pitching fashions in silly-cone valley? [link] [comments]  |
| Company is Considering My product for A Licensing Deal, Should I still Post Product to Social Media? Posted: 31 Jan 2018 10:12 AM PST I invented a new product and just recently got patent pending status. I want to go the royalty route, so I contacted a few companies and they asked for pictures, which I sent. It has been almost a week since I sent them the files and I haven't gotten a response. I know it takes a little while, and I'm trying to be patient, but I'm getting antsy. I've shared my product with select individuals and shops in my area, but haven't subjected to the invention to the online masses. I reallly want to submit some pictures and a small blurb to the appropriate subreddit to get some valuable feedback, but I'm not sure how that would play out with the companies considering my invention. Do they care if I share the product online? If it's received well, I could use that as evidence of my products worth, but it might upset the companies that I've made the product public knowledge. I'm also still worried someone will take the idea. (Provisional gives me some protection, but not a lot.) Should I just go for it and see what the subreddit thinks? Or should I wait till I hear back from these companies before I show my meat and potatoes online? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Is it a good idea to start a junior career in startup (not at the big company)? Posted: 31 Jan 2018 03:56 AM PST I am a student and I have just finished my design courses. I decided to start working at a startup, it seemed to be worth it. I didn't have any experience and imagination how to work in a company, how to communicate with a team and how to be responsible for something. I just had a desire to work, to know more (it's not possible without practice) and a huge motivation. I was scared, but startup looks promising. I'm delighted with these co-founders: they're not afraid of starting something new and to make mistakes. By the way, it's not a secret for me that I was hired because of my motivation :) So.. I started working. Firstly, I didn't like to talk a lot with my team, I hated to propose new ideas and talked about problems (there are many problems in startups, you know) because I scared to say something wrong. But, lucky, these thoughts were mistaken. I trusted my team and I showed my real side. I want to thank them for it! I have been working there for 3 months without any payback or fee :) But I like it. I feel I don't owe them and it's a secret! That's why I want to do everything I can. Do you know, it's like a restaurant without a bill, where people pay more. And then I had a question: If was it a good choice to start my design career at a startup? What do you think? [link] [comments]  |
| Whitelabel or Build? Marketing Automation Platform For Lead Follow-Up. Posted: 31 Jan 2018 08:40 PM PST We have a franchise style business where we are providing lead generation and nurturing processes to multiple local locations across North America. The company is investing in building out an automated system that is going to send all of the lead follow up activities that we are currently doing manually. The activities include emails, txt messages, and voicemails. We need to be able to bring in leads from different lead sources such as inbound calls, txts, emails and live chat. Then we need to be able keep track of the leads and show reporting on the success of the follow up. Appointments booked etc... Building seems incredibly complicated and would end up being a cluster of existing solutions anyway. We have researched a number of white label options but they all their interfaces seem dated and there is no mobile apps. Any suggestions? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| How to help a friend market his books online? Is applying lean startup techniques a good idea? Posted: 31 Jan 2018 11:06 AM PST I convinced my friend recently to get online and start selling his short stories series instead of building out a giant portfolio of writing and trying to convince a publisher to publish his book. The way I see it, publishing companies are kind of like retail. You approach them when you have a proven market-product fit and look to scale up. You don't approach them with just a prototype or idea. If my friend approaches a publisher with a good social media following, sales record and a well defined sales channels, he will have a much easier time publishing his book with a big publishing company. If anyone have experience, please let me know your thoughts. I have very little insight in this industry. My actions and plans are based on lean startup ideas and running my own hardware tech company. He currently has short stories completed that I build a landing page for. They are five short book series with two stories in each short book. The whole collection is around 150 pages. The stories are set in North Florida dystopian future. The landing page goal is to sell either digital copy or physical copy. A user can purchase one of the five issue or the whole collection. The second goal of the landing page is to collect emails for newsletter. The first thing you see is the book cover, two sentence description of the collection. Then I have a small section for entering your email for newsletter followed by a detailed description of each series and stories inside. After that I have a section for quote reviews, followed by shipping, pricing options. There is also about the author page and contact page. Any advice on what to include on the landing page as well as best practice on marketing a book? The physical copies cost $3.75 (individual issue) and $14 (collection) to print. I'm not sure how to price them. Any suggestion on printed manufacturers? We got low volume going on here for now. The plan is to ran facebook ads in north florida, post on discussion groups and try to approach bloggers. Any other idea for sales channels? I think there are probably a few subreddits that will be good to try out as well. I don't think Instagram will be useful? Is it a good idea to sell PDFs? Is there a way to protect them from being easily copied? I would really appreciate some advice and would love to learn more from those with experience in this area. [link] [comments]  |
| Is the the Founder Institute program worth the time and money? Posted: 31 Jan 2018 03:56 AM PST So we have been preparing mine and my co-founder's startup for two years now, working out what the best iteration of our product would be and building up our marketing and growth plans. We are currently building the latest version of the app which will be ready around the start of April. However, we went to a talk last night given by the Founder Institute in London and some mentors and were intrigued about the prospect of their pre-seed program. Mentors helping you, breaking down your plans to fortify them, telling you what needs to be done, help with the legal, branding and funding side (even though we're not entirely sure we need the funding). Sounds interesting right? I just wanted to ask on here if anyone has gone through this or a similar program in the past and was it worth it? What did you achieve as a result, did your startup succeed later on thanks to the program. Was the fact of graduating from such a program more important than the content of the program? Do you get great connections from it? Edit: we just got accepted into the program within a few hours - waiting on your advice on whether to accept :) [link] [comments]  |
| Just launched 2 days ago. Now what? Posted: 31 Jan 2018 11:19 AM PST So we officially 'launched' 2 days ago. We didn't do any pre-launch marketing so for the launch, we just posted the website on some online forums. We got just over 40 signups so far, and a couple hundred unique visits. I read the book Traction and I have some ideas on what channels we can try. But I don't feel like any of the methods will work. Target blogs? Why the hell would a blog write about a small site like ours? Content marketing? There are plenty of blogs/websites producing content for our industry, why would people read ours? So what do we do now? Do we just pick the most promising channel and try our best to mine that? [link] [comments]  |
| How to find and talk to your competitors' customers for research purposes? Posted: 31 Jan 2018 09:57 AM PST I'm doing research for a new product and would really love to speak to some customers of a specific competitor to discover what some of their pain points are and hopefully try to validate some assumptions. Anyone have any tips or advice on how to track down and reach out to customers of a specific competitor and ask them for 15 minutes of their time to talk to you about a product they use? I can find people who might be customers on their Facebook page but is there anything I can do to get any of them on the phone for 10 mins? How to message them (FB message will go to their "other" folder)? Offer them an Amazon gift card for talking with me? Any tips and advice would be great! [link] [comments]  |
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