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    Thank you Thursday! - (February 01, 2018)

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 05:07 AM PST

    Your opportunity to thank the /r/Entrepreneur community by offering free stuff, contests, discounts, electronic courses, ebooks

    and the best deals you know of. Please consolidate such offers here!

    Since this thread can fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts.

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    Want to sell your agency? Here's how Ryan Stewart did it after only 2 years

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 06:36 AM PST

    Ryan Stewart is a very popular digital marketer with a reputation for leveraging Facebook and Twitter to drive massive growth for his clients. He grew a new agency focused on traffic solutions (mostly through SEO) to 7 figures in just 2 years before selling it.

    He just published what I would consider to be one of the most detailed posts on the process, valuation, and specific tips on how to position your agency for maximum value upon exit.

    It's definitely worth your time to read: https://ryanwashere.com/sell-agency/

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    Botnim: 2 Co-Founders, 1 Digital Failed Startup

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 09:48 AM PST

    Hey everyone! I am Rich Clominson, co-founder of Failory, a website where we weekly interview failed startups. Today is a great day as we have just published an interview with Shaked Klein Orbach and Gilad Peled, the founders of Botnim, a web application that provided near dishes and their nutritional values. The product was not practical and they didn't validate the market. After a few months they decided to shut it down.

     

    If you have any questions, I will happily answer them below ;)


    Hi Shaked & Gilad! Who are you?

    SHAKED:

    Hola! I`m Shaked, a 29-year-old digital nomad software engineer. Other than nomading around the world (🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇮🇱), I've been doing calisthenics & MMA for the last 1.5 years.

    GILAD:

    Hi, I'm Gilad, and I'm 33. I used to work as an analyst in a consulting firm in Tel Aviv, but now I'm on a new path to make stuff on my own. I'm also an investor and a market speculator.

    As an economics student in the Hebrew U, I rented an apartment in Jerusalem and Shaked's brother was my flatmate. Later I spent one summer in Berlin and Shaked was also there visiting. We became friends and talked a lot about starting a business together, but we waited until the time was right.

     

    What was Botnim about? What motivated you to start it?

    SHAKED:

    Botnim was all about finding dishes around you by their nutritional values and location.

    I started getting into calisthenics, MMA and generally into fit in mid-2016. While and before doing that I used to eat outside - which is probably not the best thing do especially if you do that 3 times a day. So, after few months into the fitness world, my nutritionist friend built a menu for me and I started to cook at home.

    For most people, it's a hassle to cook at home, but even when they do that, sometimes they just can't get back home nor carry food & have to eat outside.

    This all thing happened exactly when I came back to Tel Aviv after a year in Berlin. Tel Aviv is very much into fitness & good food, so it looked like this would be a great service to have for people who care about their diets, including myself of course!

    Once I got to this point, I called Gilad and told him about the idea. He loved it and we started working on it.

     

    How did you build it? Which was your business model?

    SHAKED:

    Botnim started as a Messenger chatbot. The main reason behind it was that chatbots are very easy to develop. I have already been working enough time with chatbots in order to know that it would take less time to be ready for production in comparison to a website that looks good on all devices. I think that the main difference is that developing chatbots means you don't deal with UI at all, and coming from a more backend background that was a great solution, so I developed it using PHP on a nginx server.

    Unfortunately, there are also tradeoffs. Using chat in real time - e.g walking in the street and looking for a restaurant, seemed like an issue. Messenger's bots sometimes have slowness issues which were unacceptable. The worst thing happened when we showed the chatbot to business owners and we had to apologize for its slowness.

    At that point, we took some time to rethink about Botnim's concept. After few days, maybe a week, Gilad came up with the idea of creating a map that will show all the dishes we have and allow users to filter them by different nutritional values and food preferences such as vegan/vegetarian/all.

    Few days after I sent Gilad a link and the map was there integrated with all of our data. This was a huge breakthrough because this time business owners loved it. I built botnim.co using PHP, jQuery, Bootstrap (even though I'm sure I could have skipped it) & MapBox - as it works much better than Google Maps.

    GILAD:

    I remember the day when I first went door to door after changing from the slow ugly bot to the map. Every single restaurant was interested and thought it was cool.

    Once the website was available, we spoke to our friend Naama which is a graphic designer, asked for some design improvements and she volunteered to help. At the end, we got a very nice result!

    As to the business model, in hindsight, it was quite a complicated model. We were counting on getting paid from 3 different sources:

    • Restaurants - paying for showing their dishes and promoting them on the app.

    • Users - while it was meant to be a free service, we did think some users with special desires or needs will be willing to pay for unique searches, like allergens and stuff like that.

    • The Laboratory - we figured that since we're supplying the laboratory food to analyze, we could charge commission from the laboratory, based on volume.Funny enough, the lab was the only source that right from the beginning stated their willingness to pay. The lab people knew that they will get their fair share either way. Coordinating 3 sources of income on the first attempt for a startup was a bit unrealistic I think for two people.

     

    As a B2B2C business, how did you validated both sides?

    SHAKED:

    The main issue starts when you do B2B2C & you only validate 1 side but not the other. We started to talk to people, either by face to face (at the gym for example) or online using FB groups & some old school forums. Most of the things we noticed were quite obvious in retrospective.

    GILAD:

    So for instance, we also started posting what's happening with the business in a blog which was supposed to be targeted for our customers. We called it "Blasting Floodlights" - a paraphrase from a synopsis of a book we both liked, aiming at "lighting every corner" of the process of the business with radical transparency. It is hard to write, but for me emotionally what was even harder - is writing only to one side, knowing that the restaurants would want to read or hear about a totally different thing. I remember it was frustrating. It's like there couldn't be a focused effort to bring both sides together. Every hassle was on its own for one side only. Overall, healthy restaurants showed more interest, and eventually I planned a bicycle route with 6-8 healthy restaurants along its path, and just spent few hours going from one to another, talking to a manager or whoever was there, asking for the owner's phone number, coming again later to talk to him, calling and nagging. You have to get used to looking to a person in the eyes and talk to him with confidence, trying to persuade him to join, and some did join or at least thought about it, but not a lot.

     

    Which were the causes of Botnim's failure?

    SHAKED:

    The main cause of Botnim's failure is that we didn't validate the market and most likely took the wrong direction. It is actually very simple: people who eat outside usually DO NOT care enough about what they eat & people who care enough usually DO NOT eat outside. Those who care enough, like my self-tend to cook at home & if they eat outside it's likely a cheat day.

     

    What were the biggest challenges you faced and obstacles you overcame?

    GILAD:

    So for me, it was the dependencies. Driving 45 minutes to the lab every time was exhausting and time-consuming. And It took much time and energy talking to restaurants, persuade them to join, persuade them to pay for the food-check, going like that door-to-door, and realizing that we can't make a progress at one front without a progress in the other. Restaurants wanted to see users, but they wouldn't come without restaurants, and restaurants asked how many users do we have before paying for the food-check. I figured that this is not how I want the business to come about. It's like we were a low-tech business, with just an app to support it. Of course, if we had money then a guy would have delivered the dishes to the lab for us, or we would have paid for ALL the food checks just as a proof of concept instead of asking restaurants to pay, etc. But we just couldn't go on like this.

    SHAKED:

    I think that what disturbed me the most and always felt like a problem, was the fact that I want to keep on traveling and live abroad. As Gilad mentioned that would have been quite complicated thinking about the way things worked.

     

    Which were your investments? Did you achieve some revenue? Did you lose any money?

    GILAD:

    We had no "investments". We used only our own money.

    For every dish a restaurant paid to be checked in the lab we also paid for one. Dish check cost ~$80. We later tried to reduce it to only paying for 1 dish for every 2 dishes paid by the restaurant. Then there was the gas for the car.

     

    If you had to start over, what would you do differently?

    SHAKED:

    It's easy to say now, but market validation is definitely one of the 1st things I'd do. Specifically, in Botnim's case, I would have checked with people what they want before assuming it, then execute accordingly.

     

    What did you learn?

    SHAKED:

    As a maker & software engineer, the most important part is not to be attached to your code. Going from a chatbot to a web application meant throwing all of the chatbot's code and not looking back. Thinking about this decision retrospective, it was one of our best decisions.

    Having said that, I think that it is a good practice to have something first and then improve/change it.

     

    Which entrepreneur resource would you recommend?

    SHAKED:

    Personally, I recommend following makers on Twitter.

    I like hearing interesting stories and Sarah Ball is definitely someone who got them. Also Ernst Mulders - This guy was too young to open a company so he asked permission from a judge. If that's not a reason to follow him, what is?

    GILAD:

    I agree. Also, I've never read entrepreneurial books. I feel it's more of a try, try again thing. Do successful people did what they did because of other guy's entrepreneur books? Maybe, but I doubt it.

    I follow Andrey Azimov. He's not famous (but he will be). He's a great maker, and he's doing stuff right. Good energy & good "try, try again" modus operandi. Also Pawel from VanSecrets. He works hard and has an ultra-fantastic product which makes me jealous.

     

    Where can we go to learn more?

    SHAKED:

    Definitely active on Twitter where I also tweeted about Botnim. Other than that I have a blog and I'm active in a Telegram group called WIP.

    GILAD:

    You can find me on Twitter @giladmp and on WIP.

    We have decided to travel to Mexico and work from there for a couple of months.

    Being able to start a business with no ties to a specific location is important to us, so traveling will definitely force us to stay flexible in that regard. We have some ideas for new projects. If you're around, say hello :)

     

    Original interview posted at https://failory.com/interview/botnim

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    Anyone want to join a Skype group where we video chat and practice our conversational skills for clients/jobs/life?

    Posted: 31 Jan 2018 04:57 PM PST

    Hey everyone. I just got done with a phone call with a client and realize that I need practice speaking on the phone and having professional conversations. I'm sure other people need this as well.

    I want to start a Skype group where we can get better at professional conversations like selling clients, nailing interviews, conversational skills or anything.

    This is a much better approach than simply having high stakes conversations when they happen. Because you'll be practicing with people who you don't really care about and everyone wants to get better. And when the real conversation happens, you'll be happy you practiced with the group.

    So send me a pm if you're interested! We don't need that many people to do this! We could share constructive criticism and help each other become better professionals.

    edit: join with this link https://discord.gg/GBBWD3A

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    Checkbot for Chrome (beta): Boost your website's SEO, speed and security. Looking for feedback.

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 08:54 AM PST

    Homepage: https://www.checkbot.io

    Chrome web store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/checkbot-boost-your-seo-s/dagohlmlhagincbfilmkadjgmdnkjinl/

    Hi, I'm the creator of this Chrome extension. Checkbot can crawl your site looking for broken links, duplicate titles, badly named URLs, insecure login forms and 50+ other issues that can impact your site's SEO, speed and security. I'm hoping people in this community will find Checkbot helpful for optimising their business websites.

    I'm looking for feedback and advice on the extension itself and the website. Obviously, feel free to ask me any questions about the project.

    Did the website encourage you to try Checkbot? Did you find the recommendations from Checkbot helpful? Would you pay for it? I'm doing a public beta for the next few weeks and then deciding on paid and free plans.

    It's mostly aimed at web developers right now but I want to know what less technical people think as well. The SEO recommendations Checkbot gives should be straightforward and the more technical ones have guides you can find out more from.

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    22 year old, web developer who hates his job and has 100k in capital. Looking to start a business

    Posted: 31 Jan 2018 05:35 PM PST

    As the title says, I'm a 22 year old web developer right now working the corporate 9 to 5. I've been working for about 6 months at a large telecom company paying about 70k/year. The money is great and the work hours are really lax but I'm miserable. At this point, I would rather work 16 hours a day for myself making 20k/year instead of the bullshit 30 hours I work per week doing something that's wasting my time.

    I'm on the fence of quitting my job and wanted to launch a business. What I'm here to ask is if anyone knows any good online businesses/industries that would be worth getting into. I've looked into kindle publishing but it looks very oversaturated. I've also looked into affiliate marketing but have no idea where to start.

    As a side note, I have about 100k of capital ready to throw at this business.

    Any ideas are welcome (:

    Edit: Most of my capital is from investing in cryptocurrency, wanted to put the money into a business for stability and cash flow

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    Supplement product, how can I start selling it?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 12:17 PM PST

    So, I just start my own supplement line. I have a finished product, its a good niche product for muscle mass, it's cheap, it's healthy, its natural, etc. I really think I'm on to something with this. I'm packing it myself and I want to start selling it at local gyms and supplement stores but I have no selling background whatsoever.
    I invest almost all my money in this I don't have a huge marketing budget right now and it's a 1 man operation.
    What I'm looking for is some kind of a sales blueprint from a small business perspective. Starting slow and steady and start building from there.
    Anyone have some experience in the supplement area?
    Any ideas of how I can market my product? Do you guys have some blogs I can dive right into for more info?
    I always get new ideas when asking /r/entrepreneur so that's why I'm here!
    P.D. Sorry for my english

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    How I've started making 300$+ weekly

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 06:49 AM PST

    Shorter version of what I do is, that I do amazon to ebay arbitrage. This is not my method and it is probably aged, I have started via this tutorial! . And I do pretty much the same thing, I don't use any programs or tools to automate this process or to find products. It is super simple and super simply, but hard at the same time. Let me explain, you can find products which are cheaper on amazon with in minutes or with in days, weeks or never. Since I am still student and I work in retail, I am bored all the time and I can be on my phone all they long, so I just go threw amazon all day long and I believe most of you can do it. My only tips are: Don't sell digital goods – this was my first idea and I have started earning almost immediately, but there is to many scammers out there, who ask for refunds etc. Don't sell cheap products if you can't sell them for at least 1.5x price Go threw aliexpress etc, which products have high selling volume.

    PS: If someone is doing something similar to this and knows legit provider of ebay accounts, please send me contact on them. I would like to scale this.

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    Square fees. What’s the lowest someone has gotten Square fee % down to per transaction?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 01:36 PM PST

    Square says on their website they have 'competitive pricing.' Has anyone gotten them to a reasonable rate?

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    Would you rather me cold call, email, or walk in to your business to pitch you my SaaS business?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 01:23 PM PST

    I have a B2B type structure, and I'm obviously trying to get more clients. I created a program that helps smaller trucking companies organize their dispatch and save some money, but I'm new to the marketing aspect of it. What works best on y'all, as a business owner? For the programs that you use for your business to help with your day to day, did you find the programs online, or did any of these approaches actually work on you?

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    advice

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 01:18 PM PST

    hi there. i want to venture into making cloth. but i dont know if i should buy and sell. or hire a "fashion designer" (im not quite sure about english isnt my native language). i d like to talk with someone with experience in this niche

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    Reselling video cards as a side business?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 01:15 PM PST

    Wonder if anyone has looked into reselling video cards as a side business, give the recent shortages due to crypto mining? There's certainly a demand, but the challenge would be finding the cards.

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    How do you determine if an idea is worth getting a patent for? How about a provisional patent?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 12:30 PM PST

    This winter I picked up a new hobby (dark house fish spearing). I also recently bought a 3D printer and while trying to think of cool projects I could do with it. As I was having a beer I thought of a very simple project I could do that would solve a problem I regarding my new hobby. I made a prototype and posted it up to a spearing forum expecting to be met with "That's neat and all but why don't you just do xyz?" but to my surprise there was a lot of interest. There were several "take my money" posts as well as several "You should get a patent on that."

    The problems I see are...

    1. The idea would be easy for anyone to replicate
    2. Inexpensive
    3. Very niche customer base

    Is it worth getting a provisional patent and trying to license to a larger manufacturer specializing in this market?

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    free Web develop for profit share?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 12:28 PM PST

    I am an part time employee in the diamond district for 8 months now for $15/h. Most jewelers are people over 60 years old. They have these huge amount of jewelry, loose diamonds, expensive watches etc on display waiting for people to walk in. I see an opportunity here. These are some of the things I can do: Photography and video editing. Professional eCommerce development ( magento 2 /WordPress) Custom ebay and amazon store creation Content creation , blog to attract visitors to website Google and social media advertising SEO, analytics and re marketing

    But I have no money I really can't find a decent job so far.

    My idea is to create a jewelry online store top of the line ($40,000 value). talk with a couple of jewelers to set aside some products and don't sell them so I can list them on the website. So when something sells I just pay them and ship the item.

    they don't invest anything. I sell with a % for my profits.

    Am I killing my self here?

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    Anyone run their own consulting firm?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 12:18 PM PST

    Just wanting some opinion, where I'm considering a subscription based model ( 3 tiers - x hours of support = x price + additional services etc )

    Is it ever something that you would have the price listed on the site, or rather just have a "contact us for pricing" and go that route, as I can see the pros and cons for both.

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    Good platform for selling replica sneakers (Yeezys etc.) without issue?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 12:04 PM PST

    I have a friend who sells a large volume of replica sneakers in-person and wants me to build him an online platform/landing page so he can expand. What is a good platform that I can use for him that will give the least amount of issues? For example, would Shopify be good to use? (I'm assuming not, since they partner with Yeezy directly)

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    17 year old who feels 'suffocated'

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 06:00 AM PST

    I'm tired of following the system. I'm in the last year of school, the time when everyone is applying to colleges for the sake of going to college. My grades (predicted grades, since final exams are in May 2018, colleges look at these) are not the best, and I might not be able to get into any 'good' university. But honestly, that's not the reason why I don't want attend college. It just feels like, I'm rushing and following what everyone is doing. Like fuck, in June, I would be done with school, and from July, college?!?! I thought I'm going to be free and focus on reading books, freelancing etc once school is done.

    So, right now, I got 2 options.

    1) Take a gap year, and work my ass off to build an online business (which I really REALLY wanna do) and if it works, I can go and travel too. I might even attend coding bootcamp in a new country for 2-3 months which will help to enhance/build a skill set.

    2) Attend college. I don't really see point in attending college. I come from a third world country where we don't have the option to choose major minors, and once we choose a specific discipline, we have to study it for 3 years, (yup, bachelors degrees are 3 years long). If I attend college, I'm planning to study business management, or something related to computers. But, what's the point in attending college? for the sake of it? I don't see how it will add value to me, because, initially I thought of attending college for 'networking' but that's useless unless the college comes under ivy league.

    What recommendations do you all have for me? What would you do in this situation?

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    What are your best tips for finding sponsors for your blog/youtube/podcast?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 11:56 AM PST

    There's this old video from Gary Vee telling us to cold call advertisers to get sponsors. This is a 6 year old strategy. Is it still valid or is there a better tip for finding sponsors?

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    Find Your Ideal Mentor For Less Than a Meal Out! (We're back and improved looking for more feedback!)

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 11:50 AM PST

    Hey guys, after our last post we were in static and got to work with a lot of you and get mounds of endless feedback and now we're looking for more!

    https://www.etasked.com/join-today

    Since our last discussion (Which got over 85 upvotes!) we've added the following based on YOUR feedback;

    -Changed pricing to allow further quality and features (Suggested by several)

    -Added a product demo video showing how the process works (Also suggested by many)

    -Many website changes/edits

    -New mentors from companies like Hubspot, First Round Captial,Boomstart etc..

    -Added success advisors (Included when you sign up for any plan, this will be your own eTasked member who you can call or email with monthly who will assist in growth and all mentor areas)

    -Various other small things

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    Looking for potential talent/advisors in the Block Chain Space (Also a Stripe Atlas invite!)

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 11:10 AM PST

    Hey all, I'm an aspiring entrepreneur currently working to create a company called Strada. We will be working on build a data exchange on top of IOTA to allow sensors and professionals to buy tamper proof, secure, authentic data right off the sensors. As we continue with our work, we are looking for people who are experts within the blockchain space and someone with a Stripe Atlas invite! Thank you.

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    Planting my first start-up

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 11:06 AM PST

    I just moved to Bend, OR for family (long story I was an emancipated minor) leaving a 6 figure job because I hated 60-72h work weeks, no benefits, and the lifestyle of projects coming and going. I'm currently in a job with a 1-man company making diamond tools thinking it was a lucky find because I've been studying entrepreneurship and marking for a couple years. He finally told me I'm only going to get $1/year raise starting at $12. I'm losing money living here so I want to take the risk of my first start-up and I'm thinking drone piloting for real estate agencies because real estate is huge out here right now. I would like to find someone with experience to brainstorm with periodically to start and grow the business idea and eventually a few more to hopefully have a small handful of working and self perpetuating plans.

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    Our watch shipment finally arrived & One major takeaway from the journey

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 10:54 AM PST

    Hey everyone!

    We posted awhile back about working to design, manufacture, and market a watch. And after a long, drawn out stretch of getting the design honed, produced, and shipped, they're finally in stock and ready to go!

    Tl;dr: We worked with an industrial designer/mechanical engineer to produce the design, CAD files, etc for a watch design. Then, we found a manufacturer, who went AWOL. Next, found our current manufacturer who we're very happy with, and we just received our approved shipment.

    Fairly soon, we'll be posting about the release into a few of the fashion subreddits, but we wanted to post here first to get some business-minds' advice on the site – loclwatch.com – and thoughts on our initial approach.

    Finally, if anybody has questions with the process or how we went about this project, we'd also be happy to offer some advice.

    **MAJOR TAKEAWAY FROM THIS PROCESS: As cliché as it sounds, don't give up, even when you hit roadblocks. It'll undoubtedly suck at times, but after all the effort, communication, and time, it is absolutely worth all the energy once you see even just your first sale come through. Even if you're just at the idea/planning stage of your journey and a first sale may seem like a pipe dream, when another person out in the wild spends their hard-earned money on your idea that has become a reality, the satisfaction of reaching that massive milestone absolutely keeps you pushing forward.

    Sales on top that first one are icing on the cake, making your effort that much sweeter. Keep after it!**

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    Filtering for ambition

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 10:45 AM PST

    When hiring did a role where ambition is essential how would you filter for ambition?

    Everybody wants something and most people describe themselves as ambitious. How do figure it out before they're your employee?

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    Where to start after you have an idea?

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 10:42 AM PST

    I have a business idea and I'm not sure where to go from here. I know I should start with writing a business plan and figuring out all the details but I'm not sure what to write down or what to propose. Does anybody have any advice or templates or anything to get me started?

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    Zeroqode - Building Startups Without Code

    Posted: 01 Feb 2018 10:18 AM PST

    Hey all, I'm Levon Teteryan - founder of Zeroqode (https://zeroqode.com) - which is a platform that brings together all things no-code – app builders, app templates, courses, development services, plugins etc. All these things are aimed at increasing the speed and decreasing the costs of web and mobile app development up to 10x.

    We are currently the #1 no-code developer and no-code product creator in the world. The goal is to make Zeroqode for complex web apps what WordPress has become for simpler web-sites.

    Back in September 2015 I stumbled upon Bubble visual programming platform on Product Hunt and got intrigued by its promise of creating web applications without code and decided to give it a try. In only 7 days, myself alone, without any coding skills, i have built an app which if developed with code would have taken at least 2-3 months and would have cost at least $7-10 thousands. I got excited with the idea and was surprised that there are no dedicated services around no-code development. So I reached out to Bubble's co-founders and asked if they would be interested in a partnership which they were.

    Soon after, Vlad, my co-founder joined me, the business has started growing exponentially and In under 2 years the team has grown from 1 person to 17. Now we have 10+ no-code developers which in traditional development capacity would compare to around 50 developers.

    The start was very smooth and the business was developing organically and gradually. Immediately after starting this business I had seen significant interest in no-code development services which got him inspired in developing and growing the business. The main challenge to overcome was the growth crisis. At one point after 1 year or so we had to hire and train about 10 new employees in 6 months which was quite stressful.

    In a few years time we see ourselves being the WordPress/Themeforest but for more complex apps. Nowadays most simple applications are built based on WordPress templates. Same can be the case in a few years for applications with more complex workflows which can't be built on wordpress and the only current alternative for them is coding with PHP, Python etc. Zeroqode provides all the no-code products and solutions (templates, plugins courses as well as customization and development services) which enable building complex applications without code.

    A few tips for those who are just starting: 1. Always do something that you love and are really passionate about 2. Spend as much time building the team as much as building the product 3. Don't just try to make more money, but think of the value that you can give to others and of course - Enjoy the process as much as you can! :)

    Would be happy to answer your questions about building startups without code and help you get started with your ideas. Post your questions and comments to fire up the discussion :)

    Follow me on twitter to stay in touch :) https://twitter.com/levon377

    Thanks

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