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- Where's the love for hardware?
- Seeking guidance on digital branding and advertising
- MBA -> Start-Up
- Equity funding for a new startup
- I know what to do and how but I don't know if I should. Need help.
- New start-up: we authorized stock, now how do we (founder) issue stock?
- Seeking the Impossible: Where to go for dev talent on an equity basis?
| Where's the love for hardware? Posted: 04 Apr 2019 11:32 PM PDT I recently subscribed to a lot of entrepreneurial type of subreddits such as this one, because I'm eager to learn about the process. I'm an industrial designer, designing fysical products, things you can touch (no software) for a few years now. Seeing some of the products succeed for my clients, really starts a twinckle in my to try and do it for myself. The past 2 years I'm reading up a lot about marketing and business development, and I'm looking for inspiration and lessons-learned on reddit as well. Only to discover that 95% of the start-up related posts are software or service based startups. Don't get me wrong, I have been enjoying reading these and learned a lot, however as soon as I realise the product isn't fysical, I can relate less. Am I on the wrong subreddit? [link] [comments]  |
| Seeking guidance on digital branding and advertising Posted: 04 Apr 2019 12:26 PM PDT Hello Redditors- Fairly new to this sub-reddit. About a year ago, after 15 years in the finance and insurance industries decided to jump ship for various personal reasons. I embarked on starting a consulting business leaning on the skills learned over the last decade and a half. Over the last year I built a website as a platform and repository for my business blog writing. The analytics are no where near what I expect. Reality, next to none. There is so much information about increasing one's audience I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. At this point most of my expendible capital is in overhead. That said I have a very modest budget for adwords or other paid search tools. As such I'm not too keen on investing in a tactic I have so many questions about. Are there low or no cost methods to get some traffic and build from? If so, is it something I can implement as a tech challenged person? I'm actively using: hosted website - for blogs, average one post a week Instagram - I have a content schedule that is faithfully followed five days a week Medium - Use as another channel for my business writing. Also I share personal interest blogs as well (music - former music industry vet and travel, a personal hobby) LinkedIn - inconsistent yet feel it is a smart channel On deck: Youtube channel - it's about dedicating the time to create vids, feel I have plenty of content to start with Podcast - interested, and an absolute newbie Any ideas or techniques are sincerely appreciated. If I can share my knowledge more than happy to reciprocate [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Apr 2019 04:39 PM PDT Doing an MBA, i will finish when I'm 28 and want to found a startup, something I've been wanting to do for the past, roughly, 15 years or so. However, if I were to fail, I would look to management consulting/industry/VC to gain more experience to be more successful next time. If I see potential, I will keep at it, but if after a year (or less) it looks helpless and I go back to employment, how do I best spin my year out? Is founding a (failed) startup seen as a negative, or is the experience seen as a positive? [link] [comments]  |
| Equity funding for a new startup Posted: 04 Apr 2019 06:11 AM PDT I'm about to launch a B2C website nationwide, that has proven to be profitable but I just need funding so I can scale operations. I can offer equity.
I'm currently looking at Seedrs, and Crowdcube. I could also offer a service discount to customers on Kickstarter but I've heard that's more suited for actual products/gadgets etc.
Any help and advice is much appreciated. I will also be pitching private angel investors if needed. [link] [comments]  |
| I know what to do and how but I don't know if I should. Need help. Posted: 04 Apr 2019 11:55 AM PDT Hello, we're about to email an investor at Sequoia to ask them for funding to start a video sharing company. I (the founder) have been working on it for the past few months (since Summer 2018) and we've got a business plan, a logo, name, UX designs, functionalities mapped out (where each button takes you) and monetization and security mostly figured out. We're about to compose the email and send it to them but I have a few doubts and concerns. 1 - Sequoia invested on YouTube in 2006 and they seem pretty proud of it. Will they have a problem with funding a potential competitor? 2 - I don't know if the market is there. If we make a video sharing site (with an ultimate goal of stealing YT's traffic and becoming the biggest video platform in english speaking countries and later the whole planet), will people want to move? Our reddit post has about 1.2k upvotes and no downvotes, people seem to want to do it and when major youtubers complain there's always someone in the comments asking why there isn't a major YT competitor and people seem to agree and think there should be one. My question is, if we have monetization figured out (and creators can win a similar amount to what they win on YouTube), the site works well and is secure, will they move (if we invite them?) and if so, will their audiences follow? We think we can make it happen if enough people move in at once, creators and viewers so that creators have an audience and can make money and users have content to watch on it. I think we could kickstart it by allowing creators to upload their videos to our platform earlier than YT so users watch them there and we can test the site as it happens. 3 - What happens if they respond negatively? If they don't want to fund us at seed stage, will we be able to partner with them in the future? And is crowdfunding a plausible way? Most crowdfunded startups end up failing so we're not sure that's the way to go. 4 - What happens if it fails? If people don't want to move in we're afraid we'll have to close down and our credibility and reliability will be destroyed and investors won't want to work with us anymore or people won't believe in us for our next venture. 5 (Extra) - This whole thing has me excited and motivated but I've never felt this amount of anxiety and stress in my life. Is this normal for a startup founder? Thank you! We hope to see you at our site when it launches! [link] [comments]  |
| New start-up: we authorized stock, now how do we (founder) issue stock? Posted: 04 Apr 2019 03:18 PM PDT Hi all, So this is probably a stupid question, but we incorporated our company in DE, authorized 10M stock, had the uncomfortable co-founder equity conversation and now want to issue stock accordingly. I found the form template to use and the start-up "norms" for all the variables like vesting schedule, etc, so we'll fill out the Founders Stock Purchase Agreements form. Question is, once we fill this out, how do we make it official? Do we send it somewhere? Assuming we need to file it somewhere... where? Sorry for a noob question but appreciate any help here! :) [link] [comments]  |
| Seeking the Impossible: Where to go for dev talent on an equity basis? Posted: 04 Apr 2019 12:46 PM PDT I'm a non-technical founder with an online social gaming startup (daily fantasy sports meets the movies) that's been largely dormant the last year due to lack of resources. Sunk a bunch of money into a decent looking web-based MVP (rougher on the mobile side) that ran for 11 months as free-to-play game, giving out weekly cash prizes (a la HQ Trivia). Out of finance options (yes, even equity crowdfunding which, most people don't realize, have significant hidden expenses to raise any decent amount) after bootstrapping development and operations thus far. Struggling through learning to code but it's going too slow for my liking. I'm well aware few talented developers want to invest their time into projects for equity. Can't say I blame them: This shit is hard. But if there were, where would they be? And not CoFounders Lab, with which I've had a couple of bad experiences. Anyone know of/used sites where they have had *good* experiences in finding a lead developer or CTO or technical co-founder?? [link] [comments]  |
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