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- When should you ACTUALLY register your business?
- Advice for my first real world meeting?
- How to gauge stability and viability of career within startup when it's still seed round and less than 20 employees?
- How can I find a developer interested in a percentage?
- App Gaining Traction and Unsure of Next Steps
- Certificates: EC, UL, FCC...
- How to get feedback with no capital / spam
| When should you ACTUALLY register your business? Posted: 06 Dec 2018 05:01 PM PST When your a startup, people just tend to work on scaling. When should you register an EIN, your trademark, and all of that stuff? Right when you start? If you run an online e-commerce store how does charging tax work if needed? Do you get dinged for not having the legal stuff inline? Is anyone else confused on when a business becomes legit and needs to go through the necessary legal processes? I know that there must be businesses out there that don't have all of these things completely figured out. Most of this is just fluff so the post can actually go through, the title is the main question. haha. Any thoughts from people that know would be awesome! [link] [comments]  |
| Advice for my first real world meeting? Posted: 06 Dec 2018 11:26 AM PST So I just graduated and my teams senior project stirred up a lot of attention. We were approached by a big company(not Google big, but big enough that I have heard of them before) about our senior project. Turns out this company worked on building pretty much the same thing but with much less success than we had and we peaked their interest. As it stands they have been implying that they may want us to either begin a start-up company and they will be our first client, or they want to contract us to build this system for them. Our first meeting with them is next week and it all happened so fast I haven't even had time to have my first interview yet. I am totally unsure of what to expect in my first business meeting, which I imagine will also be an opportunity for them to assess weather or not they like us enough to hire us to do the job or not. Do you guys have any advice of what to expect, common rookie mistakes to avoid, or anything else along those lines? Edit: For clarification I'm a software engineer and we would be developing a software for the company. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2018 03:02 PM PST I'm just approaching startups more blindly than I should. To begin with I had no idea what the industry was like after I graduated. With no peers to tell me what it's like to work in that industry, started coming up with my own assumptions. I thought of working for a startup as being the same as for a big company, that you must start small before entering a big company, and that the only difference between large and small business is in the number of people you interact with. Boy was I wrong. Most of my career has been dealing with small companies and in my mid-late 30s I want to hedge my risks more. Actually make enough money to save. Have a 401k for once and start saving into there. And stock options are not needed but would be nice. So I need to start taking a more calculated approach First startup has just been spinning its wheels and had problems putting people on the payroll after working as a contractor. Second startup had good sales the first year I worked year, then sales tanked second year, they went in the red and most of the sales department was fired. I was still holding on to the job because I didn't want to look for work again so soon. But eventually I was laid off. Both startups had less than 10 people (excluding off-shore workers) when I joined. I'm tired of rolling the dice blindly. I rely too much on leap of faith because I lack a good network, and I want to take a more calculated approach to surveying startups. What do you as an employee look for besides the usual (funding rounds, runway) for seeking your own stability? I know it's ideal to have faith in the startup, but eventually people still look out for #1. If anyone is wondering, I do not work at big companies because they won't give me an offer. I get interviews for them, but passing their interviews is the main obstacle. And beggars can't be choosers, you take what you can get even if it's a startup you haven't heard of. [link] [comments]  |
| How can I find a developer interested in a percentage? Posted: 06 Dec 2018 05:38 PM PST As the title says, looking for someone able to code a site for me. This isn't a typical startup gig though, in the sense that once the site is up, there's very little to "running the business" so to speak. Essentially, I work in ad tech, and while I can't code from scratch, I'm hoping to drive ad revenue. I'd be offering a percentage of that. However, most sites for freelancers and such are based on a fixed cost. Because of that, I'm not really sure where to post, but figured I'd ask you guys to see if you had any other ideas. [link] [comments]  |
| App Gaining Traction and Unsure of Next Steps Posted: 06 Dec 2018 06:14 PM PST Me and 2 partners have developed an application and have done some initial marketing via Facebook to gauge the response. The app leverages the gambling industry (it is not a gambling app), and we are seeing extreme retention due to the information / data that we provide. Right now, we are curious about next steps. Ideally, we would like to obtain funding at some point, and my presumption is that it would be in our best interest to form a C Corp (with associated stock) as the ideal structure for outside investment. How do we "attach" the app to the corp? What about asset protection? So far, we have done nothing except develop the app, publish it, and run marketing campaigns. Any advice is appreciated! [link] [comments]  |
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| How to get feedback with no capital / spam Posted: 06 Dec 2018 09:30 AM PST Hey guys, I have a great landing page for everyone to check out my idea and to give me feedback on what they think of the idea however, I have no marketing capital and I don't just wanna start spamming FB groups. Plus I really want to show this to my target audience. So I have no idea where to begin. Any suggestions? Should I just start working on SEO like crazy? Should I just post on pages like product hunt? Should I start posting in forums? I've also asked multiple mods of subreddits and one said yes and the others haven't responded. The one that said yes, I posted and got downvoted to oblivion. Halp pls [link] [comments]  |
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