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- Feedback Fridays - A Friendly Feedback Exchange For Ideas and Products
- Official COVID-19 Resource List - Country > Region Specific
- Covid-19 tripled my number of food delivery orders in four days.
- I learned something this week: Being small is a lot better than being big right now
- found a solution for a problem and have a prototype, advice to proceed further?
- Cofounders not doing anything
- Indiegogo Question
- Are any banks accepting SBA loan applications yet? I.E. the stimulus loans?
- Where do you find good developers?
- Internet sales tax question.
- We cannot complete the 83B election form in 30 days time. We're in a big mess.
| Feedback Fridays - A Friendly Feedback Exchange For Ideas and Products Posted: 03 Apr 2020 06:07 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]  |
| Official COVID-19 Resource List - Country > Region Specific Posted: 23 Mar 2020 04:18 PM PDT Please share in a comment any links to resources you have come across to support Employers or Workers. You can also share any free offers your come across that businesses are providing during this crisis. Please use this format to assist us in adding your shared resource to our list: Country: Region (State/Province/Etc): Who This Resource Supports: URL To Resource: Thank you! Stay home and safe! ------------- India Pan India
United Kingdom Central Government
United States Federal Level
California
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| Covid-19 tripled my number of food delivery orders in four days. Posted: 03 Apr 2020 10:22 AM PDT Just a small startup I've been working on for three years. Blood, sweat, tears and all of that. Our whole country is on lockdown and last week we exploded. I've never had to maneuver and make so many adjustments to our operations in such a short period of time. We've held a 5 star rating since opening and I'm hoping that doesn't get messed up while we expand. We also don't price gouge and have specific deals for restaurants with low profit margins. Pay good salaries, insurance, gas and motorbike maintenance for drivers, etc. We're completely self-funded so it has been an expensive endeavor, but what we offer has landed me some fantastic and loyal staff. Customers, too. This is a wild time, and I feel very fortunate. I've been giving back to the community in various ways but I don't want to look like I'm patting myself on the back. I will say all of my drivers got much deserved raises two months early and they were pumped though. I also need backup drivers now so I've hired some from restaurants we work with who deliver themselves as well on a per-delivery basis to supplement their employees' income since they're being paid 75%. Does anyone else have a company that unexpectedly started thriving because of the virus? What are you doing about it? Are any of you (with companies) able to help in your communities at this time? If so what are you doing? [link] [comments]  |
| I learned something this week: Being small is a lot better than being big right now Posted: 03 Apr 2020 07:56 PM PDT Normally startups carry a complex: because we're small we cannot compete or negotiate with bigger companies who occupy our industries. But that all changed in the last 2 weeks. If you're a lean startup, with cash and resources, you are more important to your much larger vendors and suppliers than you might even realize. I learned something negotiating with a much larger giant in the research space this week: They're panicking. They need you a lot more than you need them right now. If you're currently negotiating with big SaaS companies, vendors, suppliers in your startup, time to get somebody on the phone and start asking for more than you think you deserve. You'll likely get it. Startups may be small, but they're agile, and resilient, and they're survivors. No nobody can afford to lose their business right now. [link] [comments]  |
| found a solution for a problem and have a prototype, advice to proceed further? Posted: 03 Apr 2020 07:07 AM PDT i was looking for a way to create salt crystal lamps in different colours(green,blue etc.) and an easier way to shape them(it's a very hard material). i came up with a solution(took me almost a year) and i have several working prototypes now. people and i enjoy the product alot. from my point of view the product is 4-5 times superior to other crystal lamps. it takes ( by hand) roughly 30 min to create one crystal lamp that way. it's easily manufacturable by machines(and faster), also the material price is very low(the lamps in the pictures have material/energy cost below 5$). i am right now working on the first charge (35 pieces) and then gonna try to sell them on etsy.what else should i think of? would you take a different route? here are some pictures : [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2020 01:39 PM PDT There are 3 of us. I am a software engineer. The other founder is a product guy and the third is a marketing guru. How I expected it to play out: They get all the info to form the business officially and do some market research to fine tune our landing page. We all pay for the ads and we evolve our original idea until we get something that customers want then I build it. How it is playing out: Product guy has basically not responded to anything in Discord and promised mockups 3 weeks ago. I don't know what the marketing guru is doing, but she has not even logged in in over 2 weeks. I have been posting updates on tech side, but have tried to not step on toes regarding marketing stuff. Now I am starting their work and I really don't feel like I should even include them in anything anymore since they don't seem interested. I know a lot is going on with COVID 19, but if you can't even provide a simple update like "can't work on this right now because of personal things" I feel like I shouldn't be going into business with you. Am I overreacting? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2020 11:06 AM PDT Has anyone in here had any experience with Indiegogo? I was contacted by one of their reps who said they really like my project and wanted to help out and get it funded but I wasnt sure if thats something they do or not and I dont want to waste my time. [link] [comments]  |
| Are any banks accepting SBA loan applications yet? I.E. the stimulus loans? Posted: 03 Apr 2020 01:57 PM PDT Seeing a lot of places that banks were supposed to start taking applications for the SBA loans (forgivable loans up to 2.5x monthly payroll for US based small businesses). However my bank, Sillicon Valley Bank, hasn't started accepting applications yet. Are any other banks taking applications? If so, please put their names down below. What was the application process like? TIA [link] [comments]  |
| Where do you find good developers? Posted: 03 Apr 2020 01:04 PM PDT Is there a happy place where you can find good, affordable developers if you're bootstrapping? Our developers are going to give us all heart attacks and early onset dementia. They've been working on the same errors for 1.5 weeks. We found them on Upwork. Initially their work was great. Slowly as they built the application from scratch, quality and attention started to deteriorate. We are now at the point of pulling our hair out since we launch on Monday. They are overseas. We have to keep them till launch but we desperately need one solid React developer located in the US. Where to look? Keep in mind we can't afford to pay $80/hr. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Apr 2020 06:07 AM PDT Hello all, I'm starting my own business and would like to market and do some internet sales. It's strictly a service business (data analysis) with no physical items being sold. Do I need to register the business with all 50 states to be able to collect taxes? I don't expect to make a lot of money in the beginning and I know there may be a threshold in many states. Any advice would be appreciated. Regards [link] [comments]  |
| We cannot complete the 83B election form in 30 days time. We're in a big mess. Posted: 03 Apr 2020 07:46 AM PDT Hi All, We cannot open a bank account now since we don't have an EIN; Therefore we cannot buy our shares. I have another 9 days to complete the 83 b election. What would you advise? [link] [comments]  |
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