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- International Barriers to Entry and Legalities
- Co-founder with idea demands for unfair equity and demands team to split up after not complying.
- Need help finishing (start-itis)
- I'm not enjoying working with my co-founder. Thinking of shutting it down..
| Posted: 21 Nov 2018 08:14 PM PST I'm starting a youtube channel centered around teaching young people about finance, business, and making money in general. I currently have a channel from 2015 that has gaming videos on it, 2.2k dead subs, and 600k views. It probably has about 2-5 people on it that would still consider watching my videos. Should I use this channel for SEO purposes because it has some channel authority already or start a new channel fresh? I would brand the channels the exact same and delete almost all my older videos. Let me know what you think and if you've made this decision before! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Nov 2018 05:04 AM PST I am a CEO of a 15 person startup. We launched in Jan '17 with zero employees (just me and my co-founder), had 5 employees in Jan '18 and now have 15 employees in Nov '18. We're doing OK, we have around 50K in MRR and earn approx. 8-12k per mo in service revenues. We may actually break a profit this month for the first time ever. This ramp-up has been challenging for me personally, I know that the team looks to me for leadership and a steady hand. Some days I do really well and others I am an anxious mess. I am also a father of four at home and find myself needing to work more than I am right now. Do I just need to work through this time and get better at leadership? Maybe there is a good book I should be reading right now? I am looking for some ideas on how I can lead this team and give them what we need to be successful. I also am cognizant of my mental health right now and feeling like it's been deteriorating over the past few months. Also, I am not sure how to say this but, sometimes I find myself not wanting to be the CEO but rather be the VP of Sales, is it ok to feel this way? I'm not sure my team would find that information comforting if I told them. Any ideas for how I can get my mind together around all of this would be appreciated...thanks so much! [link] [comments]  |
| Exposure to get on Senior Developers radar before funding? Posted: 21 Nov 2018 10:57 PM PST I'm working together with a startup and our founder wants to work on exposure specifically in the tech community to hire Senior Developers ASAP after funding, which I think we will get pretty soon. We aren't ready to hire yet, so for now we only want to get "on the radar" of developers here in Silicon Valley. Although I don't have a ton of experience in outreach and visibility, I thought this place probably has the knowledge and experience for how particularly a startup can do this, so please point me in the right direction. What do you recommend? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Nov 2018 05:03 AM PST Like most of the other bloggers, my main concern is how to get traffic to your blog. I've tried many tactics, from social media to SEO. While they all work, they're hard to implement and takes a lot of work. So I contacted 27 famous bloggers, affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs to know which is the most UNDERRATED traffic source in online marketing. Here are my 5 favorite answers which I hadn't heard much about:
Many… no… most businesses have a situation where their competitors are bidding for their own brand terms in Google AdWords. For example, Google "hostgator" and you'll might find ads for Amazon AMS and Alibaba Cloud. If your affiliate partner is in this situation, ask them if they would like to give you a budget to run ads to your review page, so they can push the competitor ads down. Win-win.
My favorite traffic method at the moment is Pinterest. It's often overlooked for marketing because people wrongly see it as primarily a source for decor, fashion, and recipes, but it's a great traffic source for any niche. Just put together a good quality graphic to promote your link (you don't need to have fancy infographics either; simple blog headlines work great). If you're going to use it for affiliate promotions, I'd recommend promoting a blog article on Pinterest and driving traffic to your affiliate offers that way, rather than promoting your affiliate offer directly on Pinterest. You'll get a better long-term result.
One of the most underrated and less understood traffic sources for affiliate marketing is remarketing. Through the use of remarketing, site owners and affiliates have the opportunity to show ads to users that have already been to a website or landing page, and might not have converted the first time around. The reason why this is so valuable is that advertising dollars are only being spent on target audience users that you already know are interested in what you have to offer. This type of advertising is also great for increasing overall conversions and lowering ad costs.
Adding affiliate links in opt-in PDF bonuses is something that most affiliate marketers under-utilize. One of the best times to engage your prospects is when they first opt into your email list and since many subscribers opt-in to get the PDF download, it's a good place to place some affiliate links. Some other places include any autoresponder series that follows or the welcome email.
Collaborating with influencers is popular but still underrated. According to our annual blogger survey, "influencer outreach" is the one promotion channel that is most correlated with success. 43% of bloggers who promote content together with influencers report strong results. It's not technically a traffic source, but influencers can power you social and PR (referral) traffic.
I'm not sure if this is underrated or just unknown – but a great way to get traffic is to leverage other people's email lists. Ideally, you want to partner up with someone who has an email list with your target market. The way it works is that you basically offer up a free ebook, trial, guide, etc. through an email to their list. The email would contain a link to the asset on your site where you can capture their contact info or even remarket to them if they don't take you up on your offer. In exchange, you do the same to your list. The result of this tactic is that it allows you to reach a new audience with little effort other than crafting an email. If you would like to read all 27 answers, then you can read them here. [link] [comments]  |
| Algo trader getting VC, possible? Posted: 21 Nov 2018 11:07 AM PST Hello, I'm running a successful algotrading strategy. It's profitable and doing let's say 500$ a month or a bit more. Its been profitable for about a year without any drawbacks, so actually there is no doubt that it's working (please don't doubt it and consider it as a fact) Right now its a side project. Quite sure I can scale it. So would like to build a team with 2-3 people or more and try to push it using more advanced methods and machine learning algorithms. So what would be the best way to raise capital if that is possible? What do I need to do to convince investors? Actually don't have any business plan, I could show the profits of the strategy not much more. Regarding to scale: not sure yet, of course I would say 100x is possible but to be honest there are too many factors so I can't tell. Thanks for any advice! Or any tips:) PS: also thought to quite my job and turn the side project to a full time job. Didnt do that since I need few people around me and it's really no fun to work 10h a day alone and code. PPS: The strategy doesn't need a lot of capital and it's no possible to scale by just putting more money into it. [link] [comments]  |
| International Barriers to Entry and Legalities Posted: 21 Nov 2018 11:53 AM PST I had a few questions for a software startup I am part of The outreach goals are almost entirely international as it's not for English speaking consumers. That being said I am starting to assess the future barriers to entry and legal issues and costs that will come with expansion. My main focus is on South Korea, Chile, Argentina, Japan, and China. For example.i know we have to change our process for China as they dont follow IP laws the same as we do in the US. I'm looking for any recommendations on where to find the best information and anything that may be out of the ordinary that I should be looking for. [link] [comments]  |
| Co-founder with idea demands for unfair equity and demands team to split up after not complying. Posted: 21 Nov 2018 06:58 AM PST Our start up consisted of 3 people - "leader" and 2 other co founders. We recently won a few competitions and some prize money. "leader" was the one who had idea which is basically a 1 yr high school design subject project, its basically a smart design but could be very easily done by someone else, he came up with the prototype, though its not sellable. The other 2 people did branding, marketing, partnerships and execution of setting up the business. The "leader" was insular about talking to people about the product but cofounders pushed it to be out there and took initiative and lots of steps such as entering competitions and contacting others. While the "leader" did pitch because they have a compelling story about their family member, but the slides were created by us and then he developed from it. In one competition we made the slides, then he created completely different ones based off ours. The suggestions we provided to those slides made it stand out. Due to the competitions, we made lots of good connections with 2 enthusiastic investors and an accelerator program starting soon. Now it came time to discuss equity and "leader" was unreasonable and demanded 50% simply because it was their idea. We declined and now they want the team to split so they will leave and continue the idea on their own. The "leader" was always bossy and hardly acknowledging our contributions, including giving a press interview by themselves without even asking us if it was okay they represented us. After leaving and working on the idea independently, leader will take the success we've paved the path for. What should we do [link] [comments]  |
| Need help finishing (start-itis) Posted: 21 Nov 2018 10:34 AM PST I am trying to get a game studio up and running. We're starting very small with mobile games. We are very interested in moving into the VR and blockchain spaces. Currently, it's just two of us. Our problem is we can generate good ideas and work but that last 10% of UI polish and marketing as well as nicely wrapping up the bow and calling a product "finished" KEEPS stumping us. Would love some advice on being able to finish projects. How did you get over this problem? [link] [comments]  |
| I'm not enjoying working with my co-founder. Thinking of shutting it down.. Posted: 21 Nov 2018 03:02 AM PST We met 3 years ago at work. Came up with an Idea and spent the last 7 months reasearching the field, defining the idea and the product, creating ux and visual design, forming a pitchdech, creating a research user group and meeting a dozens of industry leaders and investors. No success there yet.I'm a product designer he's a product manager.It's a shame since we didn't even built an MVP yet, nor got an investment.We were light friends at first and more of co workers. Basically he didn't stand to my expectations professionally, and that affected the friendship (that weren't that strong to begin with).The founders life isn't mentally easy, mostly in the downfall parts, and I feel like no matter what happens, as long as I lost the sympathy towards him as a person/friend i will always end up blaming him and eventually ruin it for us both.Would love to hear your thoughts on the matter.. [link] [comments]  |
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