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    Startups Manic Mondays: Support To Get You Through The Week: Share What You Need Help With, Job Postings, For Hire Offers, or Resources

    April 07, 2020

    Startups Manic Mondays: Support To Get You Through The Week: Share What You Need Help With, Job Postings, For Hire Offers, or Resources

    Manic Mondays: Support To Get You Through The Week: Share What You Need Help With, Job Postings, For Hire Offers, or Resources

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 06:07 AM PDT

    Welcome to this week's Support Thread. Please refer to the below suggested formats to get the most out of this thread.

    Need Support?

    Please use the following format to seek support:

    SUPPORT REQUEST

    What I am working on: What I need support with: Why I need support with this: My questions to the community: Requested Resources: Relevant URL: [if applicable] Additional Comments: Please add any additional comments that may provide more context around what you need support with so others can provide the most relevant support or guidance to you.

    Job Provider?

    Please use the following format to post a job listing:

    HIRING Company Name and URL: Job Title/Role: Employment Type: [Intern] [Contract] [Part Time] [Full Time] [Remote] Job Description/Responsibilities: Necessary Skills and Experience: Requested, but not necessary Skills and Experience: Job Compensation: Willing to Relocate New Hire: [yes] [no] Job Listing URL: Additional Comments:

    Please add any additional comments that may provide more context around the job listing to make it easier for the right people to apply.

    Job Seeker?

    Please use the following format to post an offer to work :

    FOR HIRE Title/Role: Desired Location: Willing to Relocate: [yes] [no] Remote Availability: [yes] [no] Relevant Skills and Experience: Requested Salary/Hourly Rate: Resume/Portfolio URL: Additional Comments:

    Please add any additional comments that may provide more context around the job listing to make it easier for the right people to apply.

    Resource Provider?

    Please use the following format to post an offer to work :

    RESOURCE Organization Name and URL: Location Served: Resource Name: Resource Description: Resource URL: Resource Cost:

    Do not forget to explore the /r/startups discord. We have many relevant channels to seek support, post job listings, share for hire offers, and share resources. You can also find more support using instant chat on the /r/startups discord.

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    Is validating an idea enough to acquire funding?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 09:48 PM PDT

    I took a PM course and learned different ways to validate an idea and that it could be enough to acquire funding in some cases.

    For example: I have the capital to create small online campaign to garner user interest, however I don't have the resources or talent to bring it to fruition.

    Does anyone have any insight on this?

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    Work computers for employees?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 07:42 PM PDT

    Building some financial projections for our next round and I've been wondering about computer hardware. We're a software company and would be hiring about 10 people after the round. We're doing software development and likely would have 5-7 people on development and 3 people on sales. How do just-funded companies attack computer hardware? Do most startups let their employees pick work laptops/desktops? Do they standardize it?

    Resources on this would also be appreciated.

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    Do new startups really appreciate new people wanting to be on their team?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 09:11 AM PDT

    Hey everyone, I hope this post is relevant to this topic. I want to join a startup in my university but I'm not sure if they would want me in on their team, I'm looking for your opinion on how you see my situation. The startup I want to join is an ed-tech startup and they hardly have 5 members on their team but they have won a few national competitions while I, on the other hand, do not have any major achievements except for getting the highest GPA in my semester and working with some social welfare organizations plus a few internships at banks and schools. I just don't want to be left hanging (if that's the term) by getting rejected from their team. I am majoring in Finance and most of them are studying computer science. How should I approach them? Has anyone gone through a similar situation? Any tips would be really helpful!

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    I'm giving out free marketing consultations, test me...

    Posted: 07 Apr 2020 03:06 AM PDT

    So, in short, I'm the Founder of Consultily (an on-demand marketing consultant platform) and also a marketing consultant for a group of 13+ companies in Australia.

    The truth is, The Consultily on-boarding calendar is only ever approx 40% full and I currently have a lot of free time on my hands as we're all completely stuck at home.

    So, to give back at this difficult time for everyone and also build out my own knowledge and test myself, I'm offering FREE 30-minute marketing consultation calls.

    You can schedule a free discovery call with me here where I'll learn more about your business, it's current bottlenecks and share some free marketing advice with you.

    To qualify, you just need to have your own business/side-project and a website.

    Honestly, that's it, no catches and I'm not fussed about the size of your business as we help start-ups daily.

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    Accelerators/VCs/business angels investing in data privacy?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 06:11 PM PDT

    Hey everyone!

    I was wondering if you guys know of any accelerators or VCs or business angels that have a tendency to invest in data privacy focused startups?

    Preferably located in Europe or the US. Investors that typically invest in solutions focused on data privacy, cybersecurity, cloud security, etc

    If you have any names or recommendations it'd be super helpful, thanks!

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    FFF round. No friends or family with money. No angel investors in my network. What are some ways to find an angel investor for a pre-seed startup?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 08:53 PM PDT

    As the title mentions, I'm running a pre-seed startup. Unfortunately, I don't have friends or family with money. Furthermore, I do not have angel investors in my network. What are some ways to find angel investors for a pre-seed startup? I really appreciate the feedback, thank you ahead of time!

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    Consultancy startup with a twist?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 09:42 PM PDT

    So I have been talking to some early stage startup CEO and the kind of help they need, they are of the opinion that they don't need mere advisors but actionable individuals. With that in mind, here is what I came up with-

    Project Background & Description : The project idea emanates from the observation that MSME's do not have enough resources to engage professional consultants. Furthermore, what modern early stage companies need are actionable teams of specialists not mere advisors. Thus, the solution which presents itself in a rather simplistic aggregator style model as we shall further discuss based on a pay-per-performance rather than billable hours.

    Project Scope:

    The project allows for the scope to be an inclusive aggregate model which does the following-

    1- Working with businesses to understand their goals and suggest them a systemic growth plan to go with the same.

    2- Along with the suggested growth plan we will supply them with ancillary task force as and when required.

    3- To achieve the same, we have to assemble a talent pool as soon as we are done with assessing the business requirements.

    4- This talent pool would be passively maintained for future projects as well.

    AI and data science shall be the backbone of our operations thus producing more objective results.

    ​

    I am however stuck as to how do I even get started! Any help is much welcome.

    Archie.

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    How to go full-time when your bonus/equity cliff is coming up at your current employer?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 11:58 AM PDT

    I am in the process of starting a new company with a few friends of mine. We have a great idea, the MVP is nearly complete, and it looks like we'll be closing our seed round very soon - within the next month or so. Which means we are looking to get the company incorporated and started within the next month.

    I am currently employed full time elsewhere and am looking at co-founding this company; which means I'll be going full time in the near term. The other co-founders are ready to make the jump as soon as possible, which I'd also like to do.

    However, my full time employer is getting ready to pay out bonuses. If I leave before these are paid out, I'm going to miss out on a decently sized bonus - that I've earned over the past year - that I could use to keep my salary relatively low.

    There seems to be some concern surrounding IP issues if I remain with my current employer, and continue to moonlight on this project. For what it's worth, I think this is a general concern and not something that appears to be an issue in practice (my employer knows I work on side projects, and hasn't had an issue in the past. Additionally this project is very different from my day job).

    My question revolves mostly about how to structure equity in the company, such that I receive common stock as a founder, but am able to stick around at my current employer long enough to get my bonus. The idea was thrown around about letting me 1099 for about a month, giving me an RSA (which as I understand it becomes common stock?) and then coming on full time after my bonus is distributed.

    I just want to ensure that:

    1. I receive common stock.
    2. I receive stock in such a way that it minimizes my tax burden (83b election?)
    3. I can stick around long enough at my current employer to receive my bonus.
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    Best Bang For Your Buck Email Marketing Tool

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 01:51 PM PDT

    Howdie Yall

    Hope everyone is well and staying safe.

    I am looking at e-mail marketing automation tools such as MailChimp, Sendgrid, Hubspot etc.

    Atm Mailchimp is looking like my best option.

    Just wondering if anyone can share their experiences of using any particular tools and which delivers the best bang for your buck?

    Thanks in advance for your help! :)

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    Terms and conditions for Startup

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 10:45 AM PDT

    Hey everyone, soon i am about to launch a business directory website in Europe ( i guess my location does matter) and i am wondering what services you are using in order to create terms and conditions and other important sections like privacy policy etc. Any ideas?

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    Equity advice for a very new company

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 07:39 PM PDT

    I very recently started working at this new but quickly growing grocery delivery company. We hired 4 employees last weekend and will probably be hiring 4 more next week. I was hired by word of mouth only a week and a half ago and am employee #2. I do basically all of the record keeping, payroll, I make sure we can scale, i create the schedules for drivers, and pretty much anything that can be done from home. I've only been working there a very short time but frankly I think I've made myself fairly indispensable. The founder has definitely made it clear that I'm very important to the company. But I only get paid $13 an hour and even underreport my hours to seem more dedicated to the company (really stupid, I know). There's no way I would do this long term. I've been doing this because I wanted to buy some equity in the company because it's growing so quickly and would help me enjoy my work more. I've been thinking of offering 2,000 and not taking a salary (he doesn't) in exchange for 30% since he's mentioned that he needs capital as we operate on a pretty slim margin and want to expand quickly.

    What do you all think about my offer? How should I (or should I even) go about making my offer? Also unrelated but money aside, would this look good on a resume for my first job out of college?

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    LLC? S-Corp? I need help with incorporating

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 09:45 AM PDT

    Hi all,

    I am about to sign a contract with a developer studio to build my app (finally!). Before I do so I want to make sure I am setup for future investor meetings and correctly regarding taxes. I have been reading about how I should be incorporated and pay the developer through a company account and not my own. But I am clueless when it comes to if it makes more sense to become and LLC or incorporate in another way. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks!

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    Baseline knowledge for non Tech founders - how to learn?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 03:40 PM PDT

    Hi team!

    I am currently in evaluating an idea and want to increase my knowledge on the tech side for developing/building an App.

    For simplicity, lets call it a job board app.

    Anyone have something i can read/watch to understand the full efforts/difficulties required to actually have an App operating?

    For context - i work in FP&A for a FinTech in Australia. I was not around for the early development days and joined after it was listed a 2b marketcap. I understand the financials well but have no clue to required engineering

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    How much % share to give to an employee?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 11:18 AM PDT

    We are 4 people small bootstrapped software startups. Me(non-technical) and my co-founder(technical) founded the company 3 years ago. We have 3 different mobile apps running. We hired a part-time worker for customer service and emails. Then we hired one of our friends as a developer exactly 1 year ago. He is a good developer. He helped my cofounder and now familiar with all of our apps codebase. He will code Android version of our new app on his own while my cofounder will code IOS version. His salary is what he normally gets in a corporate company. Me and my cofounder never have got a salary(we share profit 50-50). We were thinking to start taking salary to ourselves(x1.5 developer salary) as well. We want to keep him in the future and our revenue decreasing lately. What should I do? and if we give him a share, how much is a sweet spot?

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    Looking for a bit of snail mail marketing help. Where to find addresses?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 02:23 PM PDT

    I used to work for a life insurance company that would send junk mail out, they would pull public records of people who had just bought houses or gotten married. In some areas they were able to pull this information from online resources, in others I believe they had to actually go to the courthouses to search for the information and enter it into a database.

    I know that birth records are public records, I want to launch a postcard marketing campaign to new parents, but I cannot for the life of me figure out exactly where to find the data online. Unfortunately, I am a store manager for a corporate business and working 60 hours a week. I'm not able to physically go to courthouses to pull records which is why I am searching desperately online.

    Every time I have tried to find it, I end up going in circles I never actually gaining access to the information. can anybody set me straight in the right direction?

    (In case it is needed, I am in North Carolina USA)

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    List of all business functions/disciplines across all industries?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 11:41 AM PDT

    I know..this is very board. Basically I'm looking for a schema e.g. marketing -> inbound -> content -> SEO -> on-site. This could be one branch. Is there such an index?

    Something related to one industry would be highly appreciated. I already found several models with functions related to ecommerce.

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    honestly not sure what to do anymore...

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 11:28 AM PDT

    I apologize for the broken English in advance. English isn't my native language, so I hope you can understand. Basically got laid off from my two jobs, I don't have support from my father anymore and mom left when I was young. I can't apply for food stamps due to not being 22, I am 20 and I would need my father to apply for me for food stamps. My father basically gave up on me, and I scared for life on how I am going to pay for my expenses. Going through a lot of mentally and physically, with that and upcoming surgery. So my question to you is how can I expedite the process of an idea to an actual company. I have been putting school on pause for my startup. The idea is great, I truly believe that it has great potential. Do I seek funds from VC? Do I just do everything such as coding, marketing, branding, and building a website? The idea is based heavily on software, and I been learning how to code. I have been reading a lot of startup/ business books and just anything I can learn to run a successful business. I just feel lost and hopeless. Again I apologize for my broken English.

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    The quantum computing revolution. What do you think of the potential of quantum computing in the coming years and its potential use in different business and industries?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 11:23 AM PDT

    I am a college senior majoring in computer science with a minor in physics ( particularly quantum mechanics is my interest). As an avid enthusiast of the field and a future entrepreneur who is looking to launch a quantum computing related start-up, I wanted to ask other entrepreneurs and business leaders about their thoughts on the potential of quantum computing and how you think the field might help make the world a better place?

    The dot com bubble in the late 1990s was unprecendented and a major shift in the world as entire businesses and industries shifted towards the Internet. The fact is that many of these were not fully aware of the potential of the Internet but were insightful of the fact that in the near future the Internet would create unparalleled resources. Eventually, everyone set out to reap benefits off the new technology while many also invest in frankly any Internet company which had a prefix like .com or .org among others.

    Quantum computing is a very different technology but has immense potential to transform the world just like the tech boon but in a different manner. Although we don't have quantum computers today but great amounts of progress is being made in the field each day. Google's claim of quantum supremacy is just one example. In 2019 Google claimed to have performed a mathematical calculation in a span of just under 3 minutes using their 56 qubit quantum computer that would have taken over 10000 years for any classical super computer to perform. Given that Google's computer was actually specifically designed to solve that particular problem, many researchers argue that we still haven't reached the point of quantum supremacy.

    But, all in all, the power of computing is exponentially raised when you use a quantum computer. Theoretically, an 80 qubit quantum computer has the ability to store more information than all the atoms present in the universe. Some of this stuff may sound like science fiction but the reality is that the day is not very far when the world switches to quantum computers from classical computers.

    I thank you for reading this long post and would really appreciate your thoughts on the same.

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    Experience in Industry as a requisite for startups?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 11:07 AM PDT

    Tried applying into an accelerator. Unfortunately, only made it to semis. We fell off. The idea was great(well maybe to me), but most of the judges' concerns were on the team. Our team had the technical background but not the background in the industry we wanted to get into (which was sports).

    Judges said that our team lacked the experience in sports industry that's why they turned us down.

    That said, was wondering if being in the industry you want to penetrate in, is a requisite for creating a great/big/multimillion startup?

    Also, if anyone else had experience entering accelerators — could you please give me advise. When a startup doesn't get accepted into an accelerator, does that mean that the startup is terrible and judges are just sugar coating it? Should I just throw in the towel? (Feelin real down lately ever since I read the younoodle comments, unsure of what to do currently).

    Am 21yo from the Philippines and there aren't that much accelerators here which is why I'm thinking of throwing in the towel.

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    How do you create IP?

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 05:42 AM PDT

    We are a start-up in the consumer healthcare tech space. More specifically, we have developed a product that we will be manufacturing then selling to healthcare facilities for use on patients. I was wondering if anyone here has ideas on getting patents on innovation. We have tried in the past but it comes back as obvious from the PTO. Did you use attorneys to file for you? Did you work with engineers? Did you just settle for a design patent?

    I guess what I'm asking is if anyone has advice on how to position your submission in order to get IP.

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    Personal vs Business Use Laptop

    Posted: 06 Apr 2020 07:53 AM PDT

    Hi All

    Hope you are well.

    I appreciate that there are more important things to be concerned with in an early stage startup such as, building MVP, finding product market fit, making sure your unit economics make sense. However, I'd like to hear your thoughts regarding use of a personal or business laptop.

    My situation is I currently have a personal laptop which is on it's last legs, therefore I need to buy a new personal one regardless.

    With initial proof of concept and on the road to building MVP, I am about to incorporate, set up business account etc and am thinking I should buy a laptop solely for business use i.e. property of the startup.

    At present, my use of my personal laptop is mainly in making music, some use of word and excel + general browsing and movie watching.

    I would, of course, like to keep personal and business matters separate and therefore use separate laptops for each, but does that seem a bit like overkill - i.e. buying two laptops?

    I was going to treat myself to a new macbook pro for personal use anyway especially seeing as I would run all my music software on it, but then what should I buy as a laptop for business use? Another macbook pro, maybe not a new one or a lesser spec? or Maybe a Dell XPS, which come out a bit cheaper but then I'm going to be using two different OS i.e. windows and Mac which could get annoying?

    Would appreciate your thoughts.

    ​

    Thanks

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