Startups Peer Support and Self Management Saturday’s - A Safe Place to Vent, Seek Emotional Support, Share Self Management Techniques and Experiences, or Just Rant |
- Peer Support and Self Management Saturday’s - A Safe Place to Vent, Seek Emotional Support, Share Self Management Techniques and Experiences, or Just Rant
- Starting a mobile application business?
- How bad of a sign is it that I've found an abandoned patent application for my idea?
- Google Analytics Data
- Pay for one job
- Sunday’s Success Stories - Celebrate Your Successes From the Past Week: Anything goes, none too small!
- Design Engineer trying on his Marketing/Legal hat, should I make influencers sign an NDA before testing/seeing my MVP? (No provisional patent yet)
- Whats the best way to contact a venture fund?
- Protecting Ideas
- I have startup ideas in mind but I need people to execute them. What should I do?
- Do you continue with MVP or abandon it?
| Posted: 29 Jun 2019 06:06 AM PDT Welcome to this week's Peer Support and Self Management Thread. This is a Safe Place to Vent, Seek Emotional Support, Share Self Management Techniques and Experiences, or Just Rant. The goal for this thread is to help one another manage mental and physical health so we can more easily find success. We all struggle sometimes and it is important to recognize that the struggle is part of the journey. The important thing is to learn how to overcome that adversity to grow and succeed. Be tactful and classy in how you vent your feelings and share your frustrations. Act in a mature manner. Ask questions, share experiences, and be there for one another. Practice empathy in giving advice and remember that what worked for you isn't guaranteed to work for others. Make suggestions, not demands of others. #Because this is meant to be a safe place to support emotional and physical health there is a zero tolerance policy in effect. Be KIND. Be sure to report any conduct that is in violation of that key tenet. You can also find more support using instant chat on the /r/startups discord. [link] [comments]  |
| Starting a mobile application business? Posted: 29 Jun 2019 01:03 PM PDT Hello! I am a 20 year old female who has a mobile application business idea I really want to pursue. I have no experience with business/entrepreneurship, but I have done my research on my competitors and the market and I believe that my app would solve a lot of problems within the market! I am still in the idea phase, but I really want to make it happen. I don't want to get excited about this and then just let it go because of how difficult the process will be... so if anyone has experience starting a mobile application business, can you tell me how you went about that? I have a relative who is the CIO and EVP of a very successful mobile application business! I would like to ask him for advice how to go about this but I don't even know what questions to ask. Can anyone offer me some valuable words of wisdom ;') No really any advice/tips on this would be really appreciated.. I just need some guidance [link] [comments]  |
| How bad of a sign is it that I've found an abandoned patent application for my idea? Posted: 29 Jun 2019 07:58 PM PDT I'm not as worried about other people abandoning the idea, I still plan to go full speed ahead, but after reading several people commenting on patent issues I decided to do some searching of my own. Turns out a patent application was set in motion years ago, but according to Google's patent search it was recently abandoned. I'll say that the idea is not exactly the same as mine, but it's pretty similar. Any recommendations for what my next steps should be in parallel to my continued work on the MVP? Sorry, really new to all this, so I really have no idea if this is a bad omen or just run of the mill stuff. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Jun 2019 01:51 AM PDT Hey guys wondering if anyone can help me out here. I'm a third year digital marketing student and for my major assignment i need to make a digital marketing plan using google analytics for a real business. I've gone in stores and messaged businesses online however noone is willing to share their analytics data ( very understandable). I don't need access to peoples google analytics account just a couple screenshots/pdf exports of main reports ( audience, acquisition etc.) If anyone here is willing to help me out id be very thankful, willing to pay people small amount of money for help. Id also send you the digital marketing plan for your startup business if you'd like! Thanks all! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2019 10:51 AM PDT Hi all, I am the co-founder of a small startup in the state of California. This is still early phase (we are in beta, we are only two co-founders, we have no place to work, this is just done as a side business). There is a friend that is a student that wants to code on my project. What he will be doing is an open-source project, writing some cool code. He will be working from his own place, with his own laptop. I will help him from time to time but nothing regular (I have a full-time job). I want to reward his efforts and give some money (about $1K) but I do not want to have to go through the burden of hiring somebody. I considered two ways to pay him: - Pay him as a personal gift/reward. There is a limit the IRS set to give gift and the amount is less than the limit - Pay him as a contractor from the startup account. But that seems to be a real burden (paperwork to send - W9, 1099-MISC, etc.) I am trying to figure out the best way and ask him not to start working until we found a solution. Any experience, advice to reward contribution in this type of situation? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2019 06:06 AM PDT Welcome to this week's Sunday's Success Stories Thread. A lot of us get way too hung up on the destination and the fact that we are not there yet. It is important to take a moment to reflect on a great quote from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "The steps you take don't need to be big, they just need to take you in the right direction"- Jemma Simmons This is extremely relevant to all of us in this community. We should all be more aware of the successes we achieve every day that carry us closer to our goals. Celebrating these successes, no matter how small they are, allow us to stay motivated, focused, and happy while we struggle to achieve dreams of various sizes. The purpose of this thread is to share our successes from the week with one another and have something to celebrate together. So, let us know what successes you have achieved this week! Nothing is too small or insignificant! #Because this is meant to be a safe place to support emotional and physical health there is a zero tolerance policy in effect. Be KIND. Be sure to report any conduct that is in violation of that key tenet. You can also find more support using instant chat on the /r/startups discord. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2019 07:45 PM PDT Title says most of it. I have 30 samples of a luxury wearable tech device I created. I want to put them in the hands of influencers to get data on form/fit/function/perceived value. But I have not written a provisional patent yet, and feel like that will take more time. Should I get the provisional patent first or can I get by with an NDA to protect me. I'm really just trying to quantify the qualitative interest I got from the pre-MVP prototype. [link] [comments]  |
| Whats the best way to contact a venture fund? Posted: 29 Jun 2019 03:45 PM PDT So lets say I'm an early stage startup that wants to contact a generic venture capital fund (they're all the same, they have a page describing what the invest in and a team page with a list of partners). I've gone through all the people and there are some that I'd be interested in talking to who I think would really like my company, and some who I'm not so interested in talking to. How do I contact them? Do not contact team members individually, or should I look them up on linkedin and message them there? I don't see an email on the main canaan site but should I look for their personal work email to message? All of the venture funds I've looked at seem to be set up the same way (where they have a general email like [info@fund.com](mailto:info@fund.com) and a page dedicated to team members, but no contact any individual team member), so I assume there's a formal process. According to y combinator as well it seems as though it's relatively common to email these partners/managing directors/people who invest in companies but the sites don't really seem conducive to this behavior. I guess what I'm wondering is what is the standard practice for messaging people in investment funds? Has anyone had any experience with this at all? For context we're an early stage company that has had a little bit of funding from ourselves/family and has made progress but we're not consumer-facing and our contacts in the bay area/venture scene are basically non-existent at the moment. edit: grammar edit2: removed links in accordance with a mod [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 29 Jun 2019 12:06 PM PDT Myself and three of my friends are forming a startup. I am the lead inventor/vision/plan etc. the others have their own strengths: coding/biz-dev/etc. Right now don't have any formal paperwork. I have seen though that inevitably in many cases one of the co-inventors gets optimized out by others. e.g. snapchat/facebook/etc. How can I protect myself against this? [link] [comments]  |
| I have startup ideas in mind but I need people to execute them. What should I do? Posted: 29 Jun 2019 01:13 PM PDT To start off, I'm a rising junior at a university majoring in computer science. I'm interested in startups and entrepreneurship but I don't know anything about the logistics of how a company is ran nor the market. While I enjoy studying computational stuff, I do not like programming web/mobile apps at all because I find them mundane. I'm proficient in programming languages such as C, C++, Java and I have fiddled with python, html, css, js, sql, android studio but I just find the process very boring.My ideas are mobile apps but I need some people to write the code and deploy them. What should I do? Any piece of advice is welcomed :) [link] [comments]  |
| Do you continue with MVP or abandon it? Posted: 29 Jun 2019 04:24 AM PDT I had an idea initially I thought was unique with some potential. But, I've come to find out it has been done before and failed by different founders. I keep hearing how this idea failed, and I'm wondering if you were in that position what would you do? Continue with the idea creating a MVP and testing it yourself or would cut your losses early and move on to the next business idea? If you could share examples with either position that would be great. [link] [comments]  |
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