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- Feedback Fridays - A Friendly Feedback Exchange For Ideas and Products
- The anti-mantra to "Crushing" it all the time...
- Director of Engineering vs. VP of Engineering vs. CTO vs. Chief Architect - What is this role I was pitched really?
- How's the food industry?
- Founder's disability is affecting our ability to operate. How to handle this in a way that's ethical?
- When should I create my landing page ?
- In your local area what resources have been most helpful to you and your startup?
- I dont have a startup idea. What should I do?
- What are the biggest pitfalls that startups are facing in their AI adoption?
- Class I medical device
- Question - when launching an iOS app, does it make sense to beta test it first let's say in Canada and New Zeland before going worldwide?
| Feedback Fridays - A Friendly Feedback Exchange For Ideas and Products Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:08 AM PDT Welcome to this week's Feedback Thread. This is the place to request feedback on your ideas and products. Be sure to give feedback if you are requesting feedback. Equivalent exchange goes a long way towards reaching your own goals and it makes for a stronger community. Please use the following format:URL: Purpose of Startup: Technologies Used: Feedback Requested: Additional Comments: Post your site along with your stack and technologies used and receive feedback from the community. Please refrain from just posting a link and instead give us a bit of a background about your creation. Feel free to request general feedback or specific feedback in a certain area like user experience, usability, design, or code review. You can also find more support using instant chat on the /r/startups discord. [link] [comments]  |
| The anti-mantra to "Crushing" it all the time... Posted: 30 Aug 2019 08:50 PM PDT If like me you grow weary of the pressure cooker, sleep-deprived pseudo existence popularised by startup mass media - where apparently every startup founder / man / woman / chihuahua is "crushing it" (read: Gary V's school of Startups) Here's the anti-mantra for a normal life to set you free: I give myself permission to fail at startups. I give myself permission to fail at being a dad. I give myself permission to fail at being a husband. I give myself permission to fail at being an employee. I give myself permission to fail at intermittent fasting / [fill in the blank] diet. I give myself permission to fail at lifting the weights I want to lift. I give myself permission to walk away from phone calls, messages and social media. I give myself permission to relax, unwind, play and sleep. I give myself permission to put 110% into everything I do. But I also give myself permission to fail. Now go take a nap ;) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2019 10:37 AM PDT I recently got a proposal from a company to work as their main and only in-house technical person. As a quick background, the company is 2 years old and has just taken on their first major funding round (over $1M, but under $5M). Their current product was built entirely by contractors for the last 2 years. They want a complete re-write of their technology. This role would be the most senior tech role in the company and is coming as a result of their investors telling the CEO that someone in-house needs to own the technology since they are a tech company - using contractors won't cut it anymore. The CEO originally pitched this to me as the "CTO" role. However, after the CEO talked to the same outside consultants that are making the product to get their advice, the job spec came back to me as "Director of Engineering". Based on what I can gather, the outside consultants are hoping to form a "fractional CTO" consultancy and their two senior guys have 20+ years of experience each at large companies, including management level roles. They want to stay on as the "Head of Product". Here's the high level role description I was given:
Short term goals
The role reports to the CEO directly. Company size is less than 10 full time employees, so, while not explicitly stated, it is highly likely that I'd also be responsible for overall tech at the company (think Slack admin, G Suite admin, etc.), as well as the internal network, and likely representing the technology-side of the business to customers and the board. After all, the investors wanted this position made, so it's logical to think that I'd be at least on their radar if not talking to them at some point. I've already met with the largest customer and largest investor where I was presented as "the tech guy" for the startup. Based on the job description, does this seem like a "Director of Engineering"? To me, this seems like a mix of CTO, VP of Engineering, and Chief Architect...and that perhaps a "Director of Engineering" title is underselling the responsibilities for the role. I've always seen the main technical guy at a startup called the CTO or Technical Co-founder - I've been both before. Chief Architect is a new one, but I guess it's for CTOs who don't have the experience of a CTO. I've got 7 years in tech under my belt, including management roles, so I get that to someone with 25+ years, I'm not a "CTO" like "they are". Thoughts on the title for this role? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Aug 2019 12:23 AM PDT I owned a hot sauce company (startup?) for the past 3 years but it ended because it was with friends who weren't willing to put in the time (main reason) and it seemed non-profitable in the long run without a lot of dedication and investment. I understand that the same goes for most businesses however the goal overall didn't seem realistic based on the numbers. I figured there must be a better business to pursue out there. I'm now finding myself wanting to start another food business however I'm apprehensive. To anyone who has a startup in the food industry: What (kind of) company do you have? What are common problems you face? Do you suggest it as an industry worth getting involved in? Any advice? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2019 11:26 AM PDT Our founder is bright, creative, and well-intentioned, but they have a disability that keeps them from showing up on time for things, or completing tasks on schedule. It's like the perfect example of the low-functioning-visionary trope. On one hand, the business model itself shows promise, everybody else in the organization is great. It could conceivably be saved, but someone needs to have a hard conversation about this person stepping back, and hiring others to take on their workload while they direct. But the idea of confronting someone over their disability seems really terrible. On the other hand, the founder is effectively self-funding, so they're not really answering to any investors for their lack of operational capability. There is zero leverage other than hoping that they agree. It seems like the only move here is to quit. Am I wrong? I don't want to, but I don't see any other choice. [link] [comments]  |
| When should I create my landing page ? Posted: 30 Aug 2019 12:48 PM PDT Hey everyone, I have an app idea, which I want to validate first. I will create basic app design and maybe a cartoon animation and put a possibility to subscribe to the landing page. I still have to think about it, but now I am not sure about the timing. Should I create it as soon as possible to see whether I should waste time on this app or not ? Or after I get to know all the legal stuff, have the basic plan for programmers, etc. so if I get a decent conversion rate I can get my app out as soon as possible ? Also, if I create this too early, and the idea is pretty good, I cant prevent this from being stolen before I actually release the app myself. I will appreciate your opinions, thanks :). [link] [comments]  |
| In your local area what resources have been most helpful to you and your startup? Posted: 30 Aug 2019 01:40 PM PDT Is it a company, an accelerator/incubator, a meeting, an individual, a website? And how did it/they make a difference? So many cities have different groups, I'd like to help my city help the technologists and entrepreneurs more. So I'm curious about what is excellent in other places. [link] [comments]  |
| I dont have a startup idea. What should I do? Posted: 30 Aug 2019 09:31 PM PDT I am 21 and am deeply interested in starting my own company and innovate. My goal is not to make a ton of money but to create something different, which adds value to a persons daily life. I'm an engineering undergrad so I have no idea about business and stuff. [link] [comments]  |
| What are the biggest pitfalls that startups are facing in their AI adoption? Posted: 30 Aug 2019 08:02 AM PDT Hi everyone! I would like to know your thoughts about the pitfalls to make your startups AI-powered. According to the newspapers and data leads it seems like getting high-quality data is probably the hardest challenge of an early-stage company. What do you think? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2019 01:37 PM PDT I have a class I medical textile device idea that I think is a viable product. I am about to pay for an attorney to submit patent but still need a textile manufacturer to actually build/create the product as I don't have access to the textile or machinery to create my idea. I would love to connect with someone that has experience in bringing a medical device to market or any suggestions on what next steps should be. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Aug 2019 10:01 AM PDT There is an opinion that it is smart to launch new iOS apps first in Canada and New Zeland to beta test it on smaller but close to US mindset audiences and collect feedback. But after several months when you decide to go worldwide, will App Store algorithm be pushing you like in first days ( first 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days)? [link] [comments]  |
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