Startups Tuesday Operational Roundtable - A Forum to Ask About Legal, Accounting, Project Management, or How to Get Started |
- Tuesday Operational Roundtable - A Forum to Ask About Legal, Accounting, Project Management, or How to Get Started
- How to describe you and your startup in 60 seconds?
- Seriously, how do you actually get passed the "solve a problem" phase?
- Any tools/apps that can track all metrics in a dashboard?
- What do you think about competition?
- Starting a business - Incorporate or LLC
- recommendations for LMQ packaging (like maulers/shippers/etc.)?
- Which is easier out of the two to succeed in..a software startup, or a physical product ecommerce startup?
- How to find an ambitious partner to brainstorm with online after I've been away for 3 years from startups?
- How have you rewarded key parts of your management team?
- Approaching startup funding whilst young?
- Can I use my BS Architecture degree into transitioning to Tech startup Career?
- For those of you with B2B Startups - what are you doing right now?
- Guidance for First Time Startup Employee - Equity and Comp Fiasco!
- How to pull data through for ratings site/app?
- Question for developers, possibly data architects
| Posted: 24 Mar 2020 06:05 AM PDT Welcome to this week's Operational Roundtable Thread. Ask about anything related to legal, accounting, project management, or how to get started. Don't be shy. The purpose of this is to learn and share ideas and methodologies with one another. Any question is a good question! If you are answering questions, remember to be kind and supportive. Many are just starting out and have no idea what they are doing. That's okay! We all knew nothing before we knew something. You can also find more support using instant chat on the /r/startups discord. [link] [comments]  |
| How to describe you and your startup in 60 seconds? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 05:01 PM PDT I am applying to an accelerator program that asked me to "Describe myself and my startup within 60 seconds" so I am curious if anyone else has had this question before or maybe know how to structure an answer properly? What is best to say or touch on within the 60 seconds and what is best to avoid. It's a small amount of time with so much to talk about, I am stumped. Looking forward to the help, thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Seriously, how do you actually get passed the "solve a problem" phase? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 06:38 AM PDT I keep hearing the phrase "just start" but I am finding it impossible when you can't identify an actual problem. Around two years ago, I got really interested in entrepreneurship and internet-based businesses. I made it a goal to start a business, however I have failed to bring anything to fruition. I first started building apps that solve my own problems. (Time management, Organization, etc). Unfortunately, most of them barely got passed 100 installs and I realized that making consumers pay for anything is extremely challenging (especially on Android). Then I was browsing some other businesses on IndieHackers trying to get some ideas and I came across one that was popular in Europe. They built software that targeted care facilities. So I immediately did research and was excited when I found out the potential revenue and the fact that there's hardly any competition in the U.S. I spent a week drafting stuff, but kinda stopped when I realized that I have absolutely no connection to care facilities. Like I just can't walk in and start pitching to them. I don't even have connections to validate if this is a legitimate problem. Also, do I actually care about solving this problem? So is there any advice to approach this step in a more purposeful way? I feel like I need like a "hello world" version of a business. [link] [comments]  |
| Any tools/apps that can track all metrics in a dashboard? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 08:50 PM PDT Are there any apps that can track all tools/apps being used for what, metrics, kpi, goals, even document strategies, document tactics, maybe detail out processes, detail out style guides, themes and other core general pieces of info? Also on another note are there any apps that is like a total package, the only one I know of is salesforce which has it's sales, marketing, and other things in one package. Are there any apps that can store everything in one place? or am I better off with separate apps and just using my first idea that is an app that tracks everything in one app? [link] [comments]  |
| What do you think about competition? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 11:29 AM PDT Do you know your competitors? Many startups consider it lucky that there are no competitors in their topic. Or weak competitors. I also thought that our startup had few competitors. But it turned out to be their darkness. From direct to indirect. From automatic to mechanical. And now, we have to fight everyone. If you don't know who you are fighting against, you will never win. [link] [comments]  |
| Starting a business - Incorporate or LLC Posted: 24 Mar 2020 03:50 PM PDT Hello, I want to start a business. I am an artist; I write and film. I am going to create some writing programs/modules and I offer directing/filming and editing services as well. I am thinking that perhaps I want to incorporate and have separate different businesses for different services. I am just getting started now and looking for any information, so anything will be helpful. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| recommendations for LMQ packaging (like maulers/shippers/etc.)? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 08:01 PM PDT Packlane looks solid, and it was easy to design a box. Curious if anyone has any experience and recs with others? Trying to strike that balance of quality vs price vs ease of experience. While we're in this vein, any tips/tricks/hacks for printing labels and managing shipments? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2020 05:13 PM PDT I'm dead set on starting a business and working my ass off. I want a scalable business model but I know nothing about software but am willing to learn. Physical product ecommerce is more interesting to me out of the two but I'm wondering which of the two would be more likely to be successful in. Also how do you begin to find niches and problems to solve? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Mar 2020 09:53 AM PDT I now have 10 years of experience in the startup world. As a business-oriented person, I've partnered with people to do websites, mobile apps and even an AI company but 3 years ago I sold my shares and made a significant amount with crypto that I can reinvest in a startup I would start. I've recently been wanting to go back into the startup world but not too sure how to go at it. I'm looking for someone who would be available full-time and be willing to brainstorm and work with ambition. I don't mind if it's someone business or dev, how would one find someone like that online these days with all the quarantines happening? [link] [comments]  |
| How have you rewarded key parts of your management team? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 04:17 AM PDT I have a co-founder (been working together for circa 2 years), and they originally joined on an equity for time agreement. Business is about 4 years old. They're a key part of the business and run it full time with me, including being instrumental in bringing in capital. How have you guys rewarded existing co-founders? More equity doesn't feel appropriate at this stage, but I wondered if there are other ways to keep the motivation and commitment up? Interested to hear your experiences. [link] [comments]  |
| Approaching startup funding whilst young? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 03:33 AM PDT Hi guys/girls, I am a young man, 23, who is going to pitch in order to receive funding for a startup I am founding. The problem is, I do not have a reputation in the business world to fall back on or to use as an example of previous success, therefore gaining the trust of potential investors may be difficult. Even if I am first approaching friends or family, are there any steps I can take to prove that despite not having a history of successful businesses, I am the one for the task? How does one go about pitching an idea to F+F? Thanks for all your help! [link] [comments]  |
| Can I use my BS Architecture degree into transitioning to Tech startup Career? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 11:47 AM PDT I'm a graduating architecture student right now and I am looking into joining a tech startup but I don't really know how can I use my architectural design training into the tech startup world. I'm thinking maybe I could transition into being an architect to software architect, or maybe in the long term I could practice both professions. Is there anyone out there trying to balance their work in the infrastructure industry while also running a tech driven startup or alike? I just want to know if I have a precedent on this venture I want to pursue in my career. [link] [comments]  |
| For those of you with B2B Startups - what are you doing right now? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 11:47 AM PDT Hey everyone! I've been building a startup with both a b2b component as well as a consumer facing one. I'm curious to know what those of you with b2b startups are doing to land deals right now. I was getting ready to launch a massive direct mail campaign to the execs at these companies right before the virus shut everything down. I'm not sure what to do now [link] [comments]  |
| Guidance for First Time Startup Employee - Equity and Comp Fiasco! Posted: 24 Mar 2020 09:46 AM PDT Please don't bash me - I already feel like an idiot for landing in this situation. I got bought into the company's vision, the product, and the CEO. You can't say anything worse to me than what I am already saying to myself but I really need help and guidance badly. Read on and be amazed by my absolute foolishness - and be glad you are not an idiot like me. And if you have any guidance - from telling me a lawyer that can help with this international mess. Here's my scenario.
If you have suffered through reading all of this, my question is,
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| How to pull data through for ratings site/app? Posted: 24 Mar 2020 07:17 AM PDT Hi all Hoping you can help. I'm currently working ob the UX of a site/app for people to rate their favourite products/services and share recommendations. How do the sites - tribalist.io and yourstack.com pull in the data for users to select the movies, music etc to rate. Do they maintain their own database with a list of movies etc which they have to constantly update with a human moderator/community manager or do they scrape the data from the web or something along those lines? [link] [comments]  |
| Question for developers, possibly data architects Posted: 24 Mar 2020 04:04 AM PDT Hi All Hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. I am a non-technical founder working on a recommendations style site/app. Whilst not specifically trained in design I am currently doing the UI/UX design and overall planning/road map for it and figuring out user flow with some static mockups. Essentially users will be able to share their 'Top 3' across a variety of categories from music to movies, food and everything in between. They will also be able to share specific single products/services they are using which they love. My question pertains to the selection of categories/products/services when choosing to post/share something. I.e. how can I ensure that people are using a uniform system whereby they are all posting the correct product/service rather than having people using a variation of names, spellings etc My initial thought was just to update our product/service database manually with a moderator or community manager constantly adding new products/services. Could this be automated in any way? Could I have some kind of data scraping or parsing that could update the database? Alternatively, could it be crowdsourced - i.e. similar to Quora and many other sites, whereby when you select a category/topic, you start typing and a dropdown menu appears, which details the relevant categories and their respective follower base, which essentially shepherds people into the correct and correctly spelt categories. Hopefully, I've been able to articulate my question/problem well enough and would appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks in advance! :) [link] [comments]  |
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