Startups Sunday’s Success Stories - Celebrate Your Successes From the Past Week: Anything goes, none too small! |
- Sunday’s Success Stories - Celebrate Your Successes From the Past Week: Anything goes, none too small!
- How to prevent second mover and last mover to outcompete you?
- Favorite Startup Journey Podcasts?
- *ALERT* Jealousy Can Be A Driving FORCE!
- How to deal with using copyleft software when there are no better alternatives
- Curating Event Data From Facebook and Instagram - How To Avoid Copyright Infringement? - North Carolina, USA
- Peer Support and Self Management Saturday’s - A Safe Place to Vent, Seek Emotional Support, Share Self Management Techniques and Experiences, or Just Rant
- Assessing job prospect with a laboratory start
| Posted: 30 Nov 2019 05:06 AM PST 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]  |
| How to prevent second mover and last mover to outcompete you? Posted: 30 Nov 2019 03:14 PM PST Many examples I can think of the second or last mover beating the first mover. Something like Tesla, Paypal, Ebay, Amazon are ones that had first movers advantage and kept the advantage. In terms of staying ahead and sustaining an advantage should that be in terms of a pervasive grind to obtain the highest cost efficiency and technical capability? That allows first, second or last movers to end up on top? Is it also adopting new ideas and creating leapbound technology(to prevent innovator's dilemma from Clay christensen's theory)? How should I view the tech capabilities and sustainable advantage needed to solve customer needs? [link] [comments]  |
| Favorite Startup Journey Podcasts? Posted: 01 Dec 2019 12:11 AM PST Hey I'm looking for more startup journey podcasts, specifically like Startup (Gimlet), the Boring Startup etc. Not podcasts where they maybe do an episode on the story of the company but more where its an ongoing journey episode by episode. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| *ALERT* Jealousy Can Be A Driving FORCE! Posted: 01 Dec 2019 01:58 AM PST There are times when you feel down. You wouldn't feel like doing anything 😫 You just spend time wasting it. I go through this PHASE 😪 most the times. I'm pretty sure most of you guys do too. I wanna share something that helps me get outta it. A healthy professional jealousy 😈 Lol. I might be the first person to call jealousy as healthy. Jealousy is a normal human emotion. The outcome is always dependent on how you deal with it. Here I'm talking about jealousy in professional space. Admiring people is good but following someone and constantly appreciating them will end you up being a follower. Never be a follower. Instead, if you show a bit of jealousy and consider that person as a competition then it becomes a driving force that can help you achieve what you might have otherwise thought to be 🔥 impossible. Every time you feel down, just go check that individual out and see what they're up to. This will trigger you to do something with your own life or with your time. If you handle the emotion the right way, it will surely show results in your work and life. ⚠️ Lemme make it clear. Jealousy is a strong emotion. It destroys lives but if you use it the right way, it can be a tool. [link] [comments]  |
| How to deal with using copyleft software when there are no better alternatives Posted: 30 Nov 2019 05:56 PM PST I'm facing a problem with my custom clothing service. (No funding, still working on an MVP.) I need software that generates realistic human meshes based off of some body measurements. The software needs to be free and open source. After looking around, the only decent option is MakeHuman. Unfortunately, MakeHuman was released under AGPL (Affero GNU Public License) which seems to require that I open source my whole codebase if it is linked to a MakeHuman library. I'd REALLY rather not do that. (However, there's an exception saying that exported objects can be used under the CC0 license, but only if it's done from the GUI). Anyway, I'm not sure what to do right now. It would certainly be a waste of time to write my own 3d human generator from scratch, since the point of my service is custom fit and designed apparel, not 3D human generation. Making something like that would be an enormous time/money commitment that I can't afford at the moment. Should I just go ahead and use MakeHuman to make my clothing MVP and hope that I'll receive funding to re-implement human model generation later? Until then, I wouldn't be able to redistribute -- that would be unfortunate. What are my options? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2019 01:57 PM PST I am working on an event aggregator platform for a semi niche discipline. I'd like to scrape information from Facebook, Instagram, Meetup, Google, and local websites and post them to a for-profit central platform in addition to having native posts on platform. The platform's goal is to replicate the event's content with the sole purpose of promoting the event. This will mean scraping thumbnails, times, locations, and contact information; If these events have registrations associated with them the user will be linked to the original form of registration. To avoid copyright infringement is permission needed to post on the event on the creators (the individual/company) behalf? If permission is needed would approval from the creator suffice? Can this ask be made to stand for content created in the future? Does the hosting platform (Facebook) need to be involved/notified at all? How is this concept any different than your standard "20 THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND" post? North Carolina, USA [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 30 Nov 2019 05:06 AM PST 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]  |
| Assessing job prospect with a laboratory start Posted: 30 Nov 2019 09:23 AM PST I would like to know what people's thoughts are on the prospects of a position with a start-up laboratory. Let's say, without going into too much detail, the lab specializes in commercial testing of consumer products with medicinal properties. The analysis of said products are mandated by the government prior to their market release. Manufacturers/producers get to choose which lab they send their products to prior to market. It's a relatively new field, so laboratory methodology has not been standardized to a great extent. The start-up is being funded by a wealthy investor with close ties to the founder, so I would guess that the business would be relatively stable for the first year or two. The position is for a lab technician who will essentially run the lab with a small team of maybe 1 or 2 others. This will probably involve the long work-weeks, high pressure, below-market pay (laboratory pay is already pretty low), and the inherent risk typical of start-ups. What could be in it for the tech? I'd like to think there is some room to leverage for business equity because there will be a great deal of work involved in method development/implementation in a developing field, and what I believe will be an arduous process of deciphering convoluted documents to ensure QA/QC compliance, and eventually gaining laboratory accreditation. Otherwise, its hard to justify taking a pay cut for a high risk, high stress position. The only concrete upside would be gaining experience in a growing field. For the sake of conversation, let's say a share in equity is a possibility. What would it be worth? With several relatively new labs recently opening in the region, I can imagine many labs shutting down / being acquired in the next decade. How might the acquisition of the lab by a larger lab affect equity holdings? In my experience, commercial testing laboratories have to run a pretty tight ship. I would imagine this would make equity in such a business not all that valuable, unlike traditional tech companies where future stock value can explode. I'm not so familiar with the economics involved here, so please school me. I'm already considering a career transition away from the laboratory due to a general lack of job prospects, high specialization (low transfer-ability of skills), and relatively low pay compared to other tech fields. This might be my last decision before fully committing to a different path. This is me trying to do my homework before making the difficult decision to drop years spent cultivating a profession. Any insight/comments/ideas will be appreciated. Thanks for reading. [link] [comments]  |
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