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- How will my wife’s stock options work since they’ve been acquired for a great deal of money?
- What sort of downward trend is typical around this holiday time for consumer apps?
- Landing pages = Magic: We are magicians when you think about it.
- Looking for Equity Advice
- Growing a retail business at 18 years old
- Tips for negotiating lower license fees
- Why would a startup delay announcing a new round of funding?
- Should I work for a startup with low pay for growth on skill sets when founding my own company at the same time?
- Team tensions
- Miserable and missing being an “entrepreneur”. Feedback, advice needed.
| How will my wife’s stock options work since they’ve been acquired for a great deal of money? Posted: 20 Dec 2018 10:29 AM PST My wife has 5,000 vested shares in her startup job and 15,000 unvested shares. Her company just got bought for about $100,000,000 in cash and they have an employee headcount of around 120. Assuming most employees have fully vested options (which isn't the case since the E team has more and many employees are brand new with zero vested options) and you divide the acquisition price by the number of vested options, that comes out to about $200,000 for my wife's 5,000 shares. Obviously my math is off because I have no experience in startups and even less in stock. So I was wondering what she will realistically be making. Is it anywhere close to $200,000? [link] [comments]  |
| What sort of downward trend is typical around this holiday time for consumer apps? Posted: 20 Dec 2018 08:41 AM PST All the consumer apps I've built over the past few years have all had a couple things in common stats wise:
I'm wondering if this is the case for the rest of you as well? This holiday season I've seen a decrease of about 25-30% so far.. I'm a little worried though, because it's a brand new app, and I'm concerned if it will recover. In the past all my apps have recovered after New Years, so I'm hopeful. But it always sucks to see a huge downward trend for weeks. My app is social based just to give more context. Anyone else have experience in this? How are your numbers so far? [link] [comments]  |
| Landing pages = Magic: We are magicians when you think about it. Posted: 20 Dec 2018 06:54 PM PST Hello there and good evening from Los Angeles. I need to see if there's anything that can be done to improve my landing page, as far as appeal to visitors/ customers and if the '' call to action'' element is there or not. My overall research on this topic is unclear, whereas the information I consumed, when compared to another source, there was nothing remotely similar that led me to believe that a set or any one hard and fast rule can be used to get the results you want. Please help. Also, what type of tactic(s)/ strategies one would use to obtain the ability to have the customer take that leap toward the '' call to action '' ? Please let me know what you think. If you can [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 05:53 PM PST I'm currently the product manager for a small (5 people) Edtech startup that has a single owner investor. His company is currently structured as an LLC. I started working just as the main product development started at an hourly rate, and now that product dev is nearly done and we're about to launch at schools, we need to finalize our equity/royalty ownership. Our owner/investor is offering us one of two deals, both with the exact same percentages: - Equity % - Royalty with % of net profit, and % of net sale of the company if it is sold What are the hidden differences between these two options, and which one is better? [link] [comments]  |
| Growing a retail business at 18 years old Posted: 20 Dec 2018 06:29 AM PST Hi all, More than 2 years ago, at age 15, I started selling new laptops and phones currently unavailable in my home country (The Netherlands) on eBay. This was quite a succes, and I made a small profit. But because my products were from a Chinese brand, many customers had questions about official warranty. The solution was to start my own company selling the products, including warranty, 21% local tax and a 14 day return policy. So 18 months ago, when I was 16, I registered my own business. This was quite difficult, as I was underage and could not get a business bank account, but in the end it worked out. The next step was starting a webshop and growing it. For the past year or so, this is what I have been doing. After some research, I have specialized in Chinese laptops from a specific brand, costing $600-$1500. Every time someone orders, I order the item in China, install drivers and Windows 10 software, add an EU charger, package it and ship it to the customer by hand. I've had high school exams and started at university since then, limiting the amount of time I could invest. Still, this has been going quite well, and thanks to my high average order value ($1000+) I have managed to get a 5 digit revenue last quarter. At the current growth rate, I might be hitting 6 digits of revenue for 2019. While revenue and site visitors (200+ per day) look good, profit isn't as high as you might expect. This is mainly because people sell the same item on (the local version of) eBay without the 21% tax, undercutting me. Payment and insurance costs are also relatively high compared to my revenue. Because of this, my total cash position only recently hit 5 digits. My main question is, how do I take it to the next level? My dream is to grow my business so it can support my college expenses. So far, I've done it without much marketing. I've invested small amounts in Google and other online ads, but it did not lead to that many sales. One thing I think can accelerate my business is being listed on online price comparison websites. However, setup costs are $400 and there's a minimum invoice of $85 per month, at $0.5 cost per click. Does anyone have experience with sites like this? Was it worth it? Any other suggestions for online marketing? I'm relatively risk-averse, as I don't want to lose the $10k I earned in marketing that isn't worth it. Another thing holding the business back is shipping time. Some items take up to three weeks to receive. However, keeping all variations in stock at home will cost me thousands of dollars and laptops can lose value very quickly. Another question I have is how/when I should seek outside help. Should I get a mentor or investors? Where do I find those? So far, I'm a one-man business. If I want to seek outside investors, I have to convert to a limited liability company, which costs $500 + $400+ in administration costs per year. Would that be worth it? Or is it too early for outside investors, and should I get a personal government loan to finance new marketing costs (max $1k a month)? In short, what do you guys suggest to grow my business? And what do you recommend for funding or outside help? Thanks a lot for reading! u/Wouterr0 [link] [comments]  |
| Tips for negotiating lower license fees Posted: 20 Dec 2018 04:54 PM PST Hi all, I am currently developing B2B SAAS software and when the MVP is ready I want to go and sell it. As I describe it here it looks easy but obviously I've made a plan for marketing, sales funnels and what not. I am using a deployment and development platform to make this software. Using the platform makes it much easier to develop the software because it takes away all deep level work and it takes care of stability and security. My raw estimation is that by using this software I save between 50% and 75% of time compared to doing it without. If I want to publish the software and welcome my customers I need a license for using the platform. The licensing fees are around 35k dollars per year. On top of that I have to pay a percentage of the revenue I make my selling my software. Now my plan to get started is to quit my current job completely and use my savings money to start the company and pay my everyday costs. My idea is that I want to be able to work 6 months on the project without earning a single dollar of revenue. A large chunk of my starting budget will be dedicated to marketing and sales. The 35k price tag for the platform license is a huge barrier for me because it means I'll either have to take a loan (and take even more risk because of it) or I have to drastically reduce my marketing budget. In my eyes the platform is amazing and well worth the money but I won't be able to afford it. On the other hand if I don't use the platform the development is severely delayed. Is it common to negotiate these prices when starting a business? What negotiation tactics could I use in this case? Could anyone here share their experience with these situations? Also as far as it's relevant: the software I develop is for small businesses and each customer would pay around $1,000 per year for its use, excluding (optional) fees for consultancy and support. [link] [comments]  |
| Why would a startup delay announcing a new round of funding? Posted: 20 Dec 2018 02:38 PM PST Im wondering under what circumstances would a startup want to delay the announcement of having closed a new round of funding. I've been interviewing with a startup and gotten an offer recently and during the interview the founder talked about closing a huge new round and said that its confidential now and to expect an announcement soon. I checked their crunchbase page today along with their blog and Im not seeing any announcements, following that I emailed the founder asking about any news regarding it. I got an email saying to remember that this information is confidential and should be disclosed sometime early January. What Im wondering is why would a startup delay such good news rather than announce the day of closing the round. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 01:25 PM PST I recently got into into some startup launch program and decided to work together to start my own company with the partner I met there. However, we are now out of the program, and since the nature of our company requires long sales cycles (business opportunities don't come around frequently. High risk, but high return.) we decided to find jobs that can enable us to get some money going on as a plus. Besides, we realized we were a bit lacking particularly on sales skills and business side of things, so working gigs that can help us learn more about this side of things would be a really good thing. Recently, I've doing part-time jobs for a startup and they are offering me a full-time position. It has an excellent team, full of potential, but very early-stage. Honestly, if it wasn't that I have my own thing going on, I'd love to work there. And the nice thing is, apart from being an engineer there, I would get a lot more exposure to sales and reaching out to people. Of course, you can guess I'll have to take a much lower salary and stock options for this kind of things. So my question is, should I take this offer even if I sort of consider it as a Plan B and currently my priority is still my company? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 20 Dec 2018 12:42 PM PST Hi Started a tech startup with 3 fellow graduate students. Typical PhD behaviour is thinking they can do everything. .. One team member never accepts to be wrong until everyone is tired. Just one example, deciding on which day payday is took us 2 hours of arguing with him. It is draining. Our other co-founder decided to avoid conversations with him as they are too long and upsetting. I believe we lose productivity due to such constant stubbornness and endless discussions. I m lost and very demotivated to know that I cannot have a constructive conversation at the office with that cofounder and I tried for a full year. Any solutions? [link] [comments]  |
| Miserable and missing being an “entrepreneur”. Feedback, advice needed. Posted: 20 Dec 2018 12:35 PM PST Hey everyone! I figured I'd reach out on here and r/entrepreneur I'm 35, male, just spent the last 10 years off and on founding and running some startups to a varying degree of success. Recently for financial reasons, I took a corporate job. It pays well, allows me to be financially responsible, but fulfills me 0%. It's boring work, doesn't challenge me, and at the risk of sounding dramatic, feel like it's slowly eating away at my soul. I love creating companies, the thought process, the challenges, the strategy, everything about it, I love. I've never been overly successful, but I've at least felt free. I'm looking to do something on the side for now to help bring me some sort of happiness professionally. I'm sitting on a handful of domains I've had plans for but never could financially get off the ground (can't afford the technical/coding aspect). One would be related to fantasy sports, another focused on aggregating travel to make it more accessible, and one with the goal of mapping all venues to make customers event experiences better. I'm wondering which one of those you think I can easily and cost effectively create an MVP, if any? I want to put myself in a position to permanently transition to the entrepreneur life and finally have the finances to do so. My background is in digital marketing strategy & implementation, sales, account management and of course entrepreneurship. Sorry if this is vague but can provide more info. Really just needed a sounding board and advice! Thanks in advance. [link] [comments]  |
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