Startups Share your startup - October 2018 |
- Share your startup - October 2018
- Weekly Feedback and Support Thread
- Looking for startup interview advice
- Looking to make my hobby a side job.
- What is considered a sensible marketing budget for a startup in its first year of launch?
- I built a service which promotes your startup for you
- Has anyone used or looked into ASP.NET Core for their startup lately?
- Are there any startups that only do content or Ad arbitrage as their only work?
- Office attire at a start up
- Need Help with Consulting clients prices
- Using a non-profit to accept donations for a for-profit
| Share your startup - October 2018 Posted: 01 Oct 2018 04:08 AM PDT Tell us about your startup! /r/startups wants to hear what you're working on! Contest mode is on, so remember to select 'Show All' to see all the replies. If you don't see your post, you probably need to load more comments at the bottom. Also, all posts are sorted randomly, so the sort function doesn't seem to work.
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| Weekly Feedback and Support Thread Posted: 01 Oct 2018 04:08 AM PDT Create something? Let's see it! Feedback or Support RequesterPlease use the following format:
Post your site along with your stack and technologies used and receive feedback from the community. Please refrain from just posting a link and instead give us a bit of a background about your creation. Feel free to request general feedback or specific feedback in a certain area like user experience, usability, design, or code review. Feel free to request support with hiring talent, finding a job/clients, recruiting a co-founder, getting your pitch deck made, or anything objective based that is specific to your startup. You can also receive advice and feedback in instant chat using the /r/startups discord. Feedback Providers
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| Looking for startup interview advice Posted: 01 Oct 2018 07:47 PM PDT I have an interview with a start-up with less than 50 people later this week. I had a phone interview and now have an on-site visit to meet multiple people The position is for finance analyst entry level but i have a few years of experience. Any generalist advice on what to expect? I've been on finance interviews before for financial services firms so I obviously I expect this to be much different. The role seems to be accounting focused with an opportunity for working across different teams and doing strategic analysis. I'd be working with the operations team a bit as well. Will it primarily be behavioral and experience based? I've read start-ups are all about culture fit and ability to wear many hats. Not sure how much time i'd need to use to prepare for technicals Any warning signs to look out for or specific questions to ask? If the base salary is too low I'd like a small % equity. I'd be leaving a stable job to do something I can see myself being passionate about [link] [comments]  |
| Looking to make my hobby a side job. Posted: 01 Oct 2018 05:27 PM PDT I am interested in shoemaking, boots, sandals, high heels, kids shoes. I like using natural materials as much as possible to eliminate the costly moulds to make synthetic soles. Looking to start it as small as possible and for as little as possible. Any suggestions on how to slowly grow the business with effective marketing, and getting to talk to business advisors of top shoe brands for something as simple as 2-3 hours or industry advisors for help. On the industry end there is a designer for top french shoe brands that does consultations for 50 dollars an hour. Something like this would be helpful for getting the same for business advisers for a few hours quarterly and annually. [link] [comments]  |
| What is considered a sensible marketing budget for a startup in its first year of launch? Posted: 02 Oct 2018 01:22 AM PDT Some background: We are a seed funded startup and we are launching in 60 days. Our capital right now is $250,000. Salaries and commissions (for the entire year) later we're left with a number shy of $52,000. To get a good start we are planning to spend around $5,000 on marketing in the first few months after launch and eventually spend up-to $40,000. I've done the estimates and have an avg. customer acquisition cost as well as their lifetime value. I'm open to suggestions, critique, and advise about how much a startup should spend on marketing with the above information in mind. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| I built a service which promotes your startup for you Posted: 02 Oct 2018 01:53 AM PDT Hey everyone, Almost a year ago I launched Instaaa - my attempt at building a tool that would help startups with their outreach by promoting them across a list of 100 different websites, directories and communities. I've learnt a lot since then and about a month ago I shipped an all-new version of the service with a ton of improvements.
The first version of Instaaa was a huge learning curve for me and dealing with startups from all sizes and parts of the world has been awesome but also extremely challenging. I've tried to implement the feedback received from everyone who used it into this new version and I hope that shows. Building a service that constantly learns and adapts to post results was difficult, but is something I think can make a service like Instaaa a lot more useful than other mass outreach or PR tools. Check out the new version of Instaaa by clicking here or visiting www.instaaa.com Feedback is always welcome. This is more of a refresher post to those who have been following along with me on this sub and /r/marketing + /r/entrepreneur. [link] [comments]  |
| Has anyone used or looked into ASP.NET Core for their startup lately? Posted: 01 Oct 2018 09:19 AM PDT I do developer screening for entrepreneurs, and they're mainly using more popular stacks like MEAN. I myself used to do ASP.NET Forms coding years ago, but I wasn't all that up on what ASP.NET Core is like now. Recently I took a look, and it seems pretty nice. MVC, templating, etc, just like the more popular solutions. It's now cross-platform and open source. There's a nice looking authentication solution right out of the box. It's got easy real time notifications through SignalR. Core was supposed to be a little rough in the earlier versions, but with 2.1 it's supposed to be stable, and in time I suspect it will develop a larger community. All in all, it looks like a really fast solution for a startup looking to bang out an MVP. Has anyone given it a try recently? I'm kind of intrigued, even if it isn't as popular with startups as Node or Django. [link] [comments]  |
| Are there any startups that only do content or Ad arbitrage as their only work? Posted: 01 Oct 2018 09:46 PM PDT It could be display ad arbitrage or native ad arbitrage on those "shocking and addicting story" type sites. I keep reading that this is such a big problem and how advertisers are slowly getting milked to death. Who are the people who do all of this ad arbitrage? Are they companies or just solopreneurs who figured out how to turn a profit doing this? You would think there would be technology in place to be able to prevent or catch this...and if the incentive isn't there for the agencies or platforms to put an end to this, it seems like the reduced prices would give honest companies an advantage enough to dominate the market quickly since everything is computerized. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2018 01:27 PM PDT Hi all, I'll be starting my first day as a junior programmer at a start up in two days time (few things delayed the start date from a Monday and we're both happy to get going). I've seen everyone there dress very casual (jeans and t shirt/ nice jumper kind of vibe). The thing is, I'm 26 but I enjoy wearing my suit, or especially a shirt and tie. I like dressing like that in professional attire. My question is does it make me come across as pretentious if I choose to "dress up" more compared to all the other members of staff, even the CEO etc? I know in reality I'd be assessed on my work but I get the feeling people will be talking about "that guy" who thinks he's better than everyone dressing in a suit....or am I over thinking? [link] [comments]  |
| Need Help with Consulting clients prices Posted: 01 Oct 2018 10:17 AM PDT Hello, I work at a small/new consulting firm. We are having the problem that people want to hire us, but cannot fit our price into their monthly budget. Does anyone have any other ways around this. We also have clients who think what we charge is cheap. So, we think our prices are very fair. What are some ways that we could get the smaller guys on board who want to hire us but cant afford the monthly fee. Obviously, our services will drive more revenue to the client, so paying us on the back end is a thought(risky). But would like to see if anyone has better ideas. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Using a non-profit to accept donations for a for-profit Posted: 01 Oct 2018 09:13 AM PDT Wondering if this practice is normal/acceptable -- using a non-profit to help customers pay for a for-profit's services. Specifically: There's a for-profit startup in my area that provides fitness-related services to individuals with a physical disabilities. Their services are quite pricey and they've been accepting donations to fund services for low income customers -- of course these donations are not tax deductible for the donator. They've just established a separate non-profit with the primary purpose of accepting donations which will pay for services as the startup. . Is this a normal/acceptable practice? I can't find much info about this sort of setup, seems absolutely harmless on its face but I'm wondering about laws and regulations around this. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
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