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    July 09, 2020

    Startups Wednesday Social Club - Share What Events You Are Attending This Coming Week

    Wednesday Social Club - Share What Events You Are Attending This Coming Week

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 06:06 AM PDT

    Welcome to this week's Social Club thread.

    Share what events and meetups you are going to so we can discover new ways to be social together offline and help grow your local community.

    Focus on sharing events that are happening within the next 7 days of this date of this submission. Anything that falls outside of 10 days will be removed, no exceptions.

    No duplicate posts. If you happen to be attending an event that is already posted, leave a comment to inform the community that you will also be there.

    If you are hoping to organize something on your own, outside of an existing event, feel free to use this thread to rally some people together to meet up.

    Please use the following format to share an event:

    Event Name and URL: Location: Event Date: Event Time: Event Description: Event Cost: Discount Code: [if applicable]

    Please use the following format to organize people to meet up together:

    Location: Purpose of getting together: Suggested Places to meet up:

    You can also find more support using instant chat on the /r/startups discord.

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    First hire. He wants a mega-title on his business card.

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 04:43 PM PDT

    I have finally made my first "real" hire.

    A young sales rep, 23-24yo, motivated, ambitious. He currently works for the largest multinational in my vertical as a business development (a sales rep with no reportees).

    He will help me part-time, while keeping his 9-5.

    He looks like a humble fella, yet self confident.

    But he asked me if he can get the title of VP Global Sales.

    I don't know how to react. I don't want to kill his enthusiasm because it's going to help him work harder and stay motivated.

    On the other side, it's a 2 people startup really, he is pretty young and inexperienced, and giving him such title I'm afraid that might affect my startup credibility.

    Also, what if I hire someone with greater experience on top of him some time in the future?

    What would you do?

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    The e-commerce startup I’ve been building in my spare time will be market-ready next month. How should I handle releasing it, promoting it, etc. without my full-time employer minding?

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 07:46 AM PDT

    I think my startup has huge potential, but of course I want to be as full-throated as I can in promoting it — changing LinkedIn profile, talking about it on my own personal feeds, etc. How should I handle my full-time employer in this scenario? They sort of know I'm working on something, but probably weren't paying attention as to how serious I was about building this. Also, I never worked in this during my regular job.

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    Ramifications for registering a business name that is already taken but unregistered?

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 06:58 PM PDT

    I'm starting a shop and the name I chose is taken by creative sellers on Etsy and other sites but nothing is registered. I've done the business name lookup and there's nothing coming back as taken along with domain names which are all available for purchase.

    What would happen if I registered this name and incorporated?

    Is it as simple as the other businesses showing proof they were here first even though they're not registered?

    Thanks

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    Looking for co-founder a to build TikTok for Indian market

    Posted: 09 Jul 2020 05:17 AM PDT

    I'm building a short video app for video status updates(Twitter for short videos). I'm looking for someone who can help me build this together.

    The idea:

    A short video status update app, a blend between Twitter & TikTok.

    There has been a lot of buzz about TikTok lately, I love the app but it looks like it's getting banned in many places(India has done it already). My primary market is India, currently apps similar to TikTok are are taking it's place (20m+ downloads). It's still early but I believe given enough time a new app will take over in this short video format.

    My skill is in technical development, I can work on app development + backend and everything technology and growth hacking. However I'm lacking in community building and other people skills, I'm hoping someone can help me fill this gap.

    This is the first time trying to build a startup. I'm devoting my full time into working on this. Currently app development is in progress, I plan to complete dev(MVP) by Aug, 10.

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    Help - Do I apply for Sole Trader?

    Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:20 AM PDT

    Hey All,

    I've got a podcast which has various outgoings at the moment: publishing, cloud memory etc

    I'm looking to sell merchandise to cover the costs.

    Am I best setting up as a sole trader?? Do I need to open a business account?

    Do I set up all my costs to come out of the business account and then get the income of the merch sales going in? Is there a point where I'd need to declare etc

    ​

    Cheers,

    GBRM

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    Here is how you can reach your dream customers!

    Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:17 AM PDT

    Email outreach is the first thing that came to my mind when i thought about acquiring users, i've done it for my freelance business and i've done it for Plainly (and i am still doing it). Yeah, it seems tedious and time-consuming but you have to get your product out to the people, right?

    Throughout the years, i've developed a process to which i always go back to. It allowed me to reach my target customers, and i wanted to share it with you so you can do the same.

    In the end, i share a bonus tip (with FREE STUFF) which can improve your chances greatly. If you don't feel like reading the whole thing, just scroll down and look for the "Bonus Tip".

    Research

    You can't really outreach to anyone, right? It wouldn't make sense. That's why you need to do your research upfront, who do you want to target? Who is your target customer?

    Don't worry if you can't pinpoint an exact buyer persona upfront, you will discover this throughout the process and you will discover who actually needs your services and product along the way.

    Now when you got those people, it's time to find them and their companies. I'll work out of an example for Plainly.

    One of our target customers are startup founders who are still doing the marketing themselves or have a single person dedicated to marketing. Our target customers are not big marketing teams or big startups who hire freelancers to do their marketing - nope.

    So let's see where can we find these people.

    Finding prospects

    Finding these people is easy enough. You have two ways (one is a bit more time consuming than the other).

    1. Going through Crunchbase

    Crunchbase is a great tool for doing research on startups, it's a huge database that allows you to filter companies by various things and it's a really handy tool when it comes to prospecting. It's a paid service, but there is a free trial and you can use that free trial to its maximum potential.

    To filter companies and find the ones that you need, go with the advance search.

    After you've filtered the companies you want, you will get a huge list of companies that match those criteria. The next step would be to go into each company profile, see what companies do you like and the most important - find their LinkedIn page.

    Now i am not going to go through this step with you because you can figure it out on your own and i want to keep the privacy of the employees but you should go onto their LinkedIn page and find relevant people.

    For example, when i am doing the research for Plainly prospects, we are targeting smaller startups so i can often contact one of the founders, OR if they have a dedicated marketing person then i would contact him or her.

    One more tip i can share is that you should always do a bit of research on your prospects. What are they like on social media, do they share content, what is that content? Try and see if you can relate to them and make sure to include that in the email.

    Here is an example of connecting to a prospect (this is from my freelance days)

    ​

    Heya!

    While browsing LinkedIn i stumbled upon your profile and ***** agency website. The work you folks are producing is top-notch!

    I am a freelance motion designer/ wannabe digital nomad and i just wanted to introduce myself. My speciality is vector driven explainer videos and if you wish you can see my reel here:

    **link to video**

    I love collaborating with talented folks, and i just wanted to reach out and let you know i am out there. Don't hesitate to ask me anything.

    Cheers!

    ​

    I saw that she is a digital nomad and that she is traveling while working so i included that in the e-mail. It got a response and we started a conversation.

    Remember - you are a human talking with humans, keep it casual and human-like.

    2. Going directly through LinkedIn

    This is a more time-consuming way of finding prospects but it's free and in some cases, it can work pretty well. It's pretty simple, search for people with relevant job titles in your LinkedIn search, adjust the filter, and see what comes out.

    It's really important to adjust the "Industry" field or you will find all sorts of people. This is just an example for Plainly, i would search for founders, enter their company profiles, and see if Plainly can help them.

    It's more time consuming because you will find all sorts of people, and with Crunchbase it's more precise and you have more control with the filters. But hey - this is free.

    Connecting

    Okay, we got a list of companies that we might approach. One more step you can do is really dig into the company, take a look at their website, at their social media and really see if you can connect and work with them.

    It's not worth it if you are just sending mindless e-mails, it's bad for you and it's bad for them.

    I already told you that you should find the decision-makers and relevant people in the companies, but what then?

    You can do two things:

    1. Connect with them on LinkedIn

    If you found people and companies you really like this should come easy. Send them a connection on LinkedIn, give them a compliment and ask them a question. Spark a conversation with them.

    DON'T PITCH THEM INSTANTLY.

    I can't stress this enough, but don't do it. Don't be a spammer and start a real conversation with people, they will eventually ask you what do you do and you can see if they are interested.

    Again, keep it casual and keep it human-like.

    2. Send them a cold e-mail

    This is a more traditional approach. The pros are that they give you instant results, your e-mail either gets responded or not...you don't wait for a while to build a connection with the prospect and another pro is that you can send more of these. The cons are that they are less effective and more boring (in my opinion).

    Okay, you found the people you want to reach out to but you don't have their emails.

    Well, there are A LOT of tools to help you with that. One of those is VoilaNorbert and another one is Hunter.IO. They are both awesome and i talked more in-depth about them in the previous blog post so read more about them there.

    One more amazing tool that you can install (that i talked about in the previous blog post) is MailTrack. It will track your e-mails and allow you to

    One book i always give to anybody who wants to write cold e-mails is THIS ONE. Neville boils it down to the simplest bits and it's one of the books that changed the way i write cold e-mails (Thanks Danijel).

    Writing the e-mail

    I am by no means an expert here, i consider myself a beginner at cold-emails so i won't go in-depth but here are a few tips.

    1. Remember who you are writing too - match the tone of that person.
    2. Make your e-mails personalized and sound human.
    3. Don't spam!!!!!
    4. If they didn't respond, follow up after 3 days.
    5. KEEP THE EMAILS SHORT!
    6. Make sure that you cut all of the fluff, and keep it to the point.
    7. Test your e-mail body.
    8. Test your e-mail subject.

    There is a ton of resources for this on the Internet so just do your research and you will be able to write one yourself.

    Don't sweat it too much, write a base version; send a few of them and iterate - your response and the open rate will tell you if you are going in the right direction.

    Remember, sending cold e-mails is a long and time-consuming process, don't give up after a week. When i am doing these i strive to send 5-10 a day (this includes finding prospects, doing research, and writing e-mails.

    Bonus tip - Video

    Research says that using a video in your marketing e-mails can boost your open and response rate up to 80%. Now, these numbers may be a bit high, but it's definitely something that can boost up your cold e-mail game.

    Here is a good way you can use video when doing outreach:

    Create a short video explaining what your product does

    Example!

    I made a FREE VIDEO for you, that you can generate, for free and under 5 minutes. It's a short animated video that will explain what your business does, you can embed it into your e-mail and make sure that you stand out. Click here to generate your free video

    If you like doing a bit more work, you can create a quick Loom recording for every e-mail. This is a great way to keep the e-mails personalized and to show that you really care about your prospects. Start recording, introduce yourself, and tell them how can you help their business grow.

    Now i wouldn't say that one way is better than the other, you can try both of them and see which one works the best. Anyways video is a great tool and i read an article that even putting the word "Video" in the subject line improves your chances a lot.

    Try both of these ways, combine them, test them - go crazy.

    Recap

    Finding those dream clients is hard, yes. But with a built system for direct outreach, it's just a matter of time until you get that response. These techniques are time-consuming, but they are tested and they work!

    If you liked this long-form article, please let me know down in the comments and i'll try to do more of these.

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    We recently helped a few startups leverage user generated content. Here's what we discovered and how you can use this content more than just a simple Marketing tool.

    Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:09 AM PDT

    ​

    From social media feeds to product reviews and customer support interactions to blogs, user-generated content is abundant. But how is it being underused?

    User-generated content (UGC) is any content, like text, reviews, blog posts, videos, or images, created by people. It is omnipresent nowadays, given there are more ways than ever before for people to create it themselves.

    Normally, businesses might harness UGC to boost engagement on social media, drive traffic to their site or for marketing campaigns. Most companies are only too willing to show off positive UGC, and why wouldn't they? Consumers place their trust in products validated authentically.

    If you've shopped online, there's a good chance you've made a decision based on a review—this is one type of user-generated content.

    But if you look beyond its use as an authentic form of social proof, user-generated content can be so much more than a marketing tool. Sadly, it is woefully underused by small to mid-sized businesses.

    The importance of leveraging user generated content

    User-generated content provides valuable information that can help inform decision-makers in many, many ways, but most businesses are only scratching the surface. In its raw state, user-generated content can only go so far.

    This is why businesses must look beyond the star rating, transcend the thumbs or thumbs down, and look deeper.

    Behind every review is an experience or a feeling, and those experiences and feelings are a potential goldmine holding a wealth of insights…if you know how to mine them with text analysis, that is.

    Text analysis can unlock a wealth of insight

    Let's focus solely on text-based product reviews for a moment.

    Sometimes, making heads and tails of vast amounts of text reviews can be an insurmountable task. This may be one reason why businesses aren't analyzing UGC correctly.

    Businesses receiving thousands of product reviews might not have the capability to review each one, so they might opt to handpick a few.

    While those might tell businesses something they can use to their advantage, the process is time-consuming and subject to both bias and human error. Also, disregarding the majority of UGC content is a crucial error.

    How can businesses harness text analysis?

    Assuming that reviews are rolling in, customer interactions are taking place, and user feedback is being collected, businesses already have a strong foundation to work from.

    After a business has identified the UGC it wants to analyze, it's time to "listen" so it can tailor products and services to meet the wants and needs of its customers. One way for businesses to "listen" to the data is by using text analysis.

    Two powerful types of text analysis are:

    ​

    1. Sentiment Analysis
    2. Topic Analysis

    ​

    • Sentiment Analysis

    Sentiment analysis is the classification and interpretation of emotions hidden within a text. Sentiment analysis affords businesses the ability to understand customer sentiment, or how a customer feels about a product, service, or brand, whether it's positive, neutral or negative.

    ​

    • Topic Analysis

    Topic analysis is a technique that gives businesses the potential to extract meaning from texts. It is able to identify recurring topics and themes, arming businesses with enough solid insight to make long-lasting decisions. Topic analysis can spot words or phrases, how often they appear, and the overall opinion surrounding those words.

    Combined, the two make a formidable team, unearthing a rich vein of insight that can be used to improve almost any product, service or business in near-enough every sector.

    These data sources normally remain untapped, because the handling of unstructured data usually requires a considerable investment in time, personnel and resources.

    ​

    Typically, sentiment and topic analyses are only achievable with expensive software and highly-trained data scientists.

    ​

    If you would like to learn more on can you leverage UGC in your startup or organization you can read more here.

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    Hot to filter out bad advice from people without being too in love with your own ideas?

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 09:23 AM PDT

    Basically the title. I work on a project/startup that I sometimes show people, and of course everyone has advices.

    Some were good but I only saw it after some time, some were bad and I wasted my time.

    I wanna make sure I don't rule out ideas because I am too in love with parts of my startup, and yet not take bad advice and waste time on it. I know it is very case specific, so even commenting what you think and if you felt it too is appreciated.

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    QR Codes in Restaurants: How to Safely Operate During a Pandemic

    Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:50 AM PDT

    Tips on starting

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 10:12 PM PDT

    Hello I am a software engineer right now. I want to create a software development and cyber security startup but I don't know where to start. I am pretty sure I am really good at what I do from software development to security I can make sure that I can handle it. But there are some issues/worries I have that's kinda scaring me to take the jump from 9-5 to own startup.

    ​

    1. How do I get a client? I don't know where to find or contact people for businesses like this.
    2. I don't have any certifications, I learned everything from my job and through the help of internet.

    Right now this are the issues I am looking at. If you could give me some piece of advice to where to start or how to start would be great! Have a nice day

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    Super-early stage startup: Advice needed on formation docs, initial surveys

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 02:39 PM PDT

    Per the thread title, we are in process building a SaaS tool. We have an initial test customer lined up (long-term would be $30k to $60k ARR). The test customer is also an ideal board member and someone I'd like to give small equity to on vesting schedule, as he is well positioned to help sell the product to other businesses.

    Some questions:

    • I do not have nay organizational documents set up yet. There are 2 founders. We are located in Texas. We will ultimately raise outside capital if all goes well. Any advice on setup? LLC... can anyone point me to a solid "template" org document or the like? Especially for a 2 founder startup where equity will be split more or less evenly? Would like it to factor in things like vesting.

    • What would be a typical amount of equity to give an initial key/lead board member, and how would it vest?

    • I need to create an initial survey/list of questions to further communication with the test customer as we build the beta product. Any general key questions to ask there? Obviously product specific questions I'd have to handle.

    Thank you!

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    5 years in, very profitable, and exploring the idea of funding to expedite growth.

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 05:18 PM PDT

    Little back story. 5 years into an online nutrition coaching company. We've helped about 40,000 people, make 7 figures a year (profit around 100-200k per month), are releasing our web based application in a few weeks and I'm thinking of the next steps. Marketing (we haven't even done it yet), sales, retention tactics, etc

    This all happened just by doing a good job and we've been a little spoiled by the amount of customers coming in but now I'm wondering what we can do if we really put our focus on growth. I haven't considered funding until recently and it's probably because I'm a bit naive. I've bootstrapped the entire business from day one and have money saved so I'm not sure if I should toss a lot of my own money in, take outside funding only, take funding with resources, and expertise, or just keep cruising.

    My questions are if I were to look for funding and explore conversations where do I begin? We had an offer that came to us about 18 months ago that I turned down, which I can explore again, but I'm curious from ground zero. If we were to take funding or look for investors I want to make sure we align with our vision.

    I'm already financially secure but my goal would be to create a larger nest egg, still be involved heavily , and potentially retain majority if not a decent part of the business. Of course I'm open to all scenarios that make sense, though. I just know not doing this is kind of a selfish move because there are people out there that need us and going it alone (with our small internal team) is taking longer than it needs to.

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    I just started a custom web development agency. I'm lucky enough to have a couple clients already. Though I want to expand. What should I be prepared for?

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 07:43 PM PDT

    I'm in the process of hiring some freelancers so I can keep up with the workload. I know that at the very least, I'd need to hire more devs to handle the workload. What else should I be aware of, what else should I be prepared for? I have a lawyer to help with the legalities. Though I've never done anything like this before. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

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    Dealing with a picky, argumentative, semi-cheap, sarcastic-mean client

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 07:28 PM PDT

    I've been doing a good amount of reading on my own but wanted to hear anyone's feedback in dealing with this.

    A couple partners and I started a small agency last year and have one client who came on about a few months ago starting with a new website.

    Ive been doing this a long time, so have worked with a range of difficult personalities, but I am having trouble with this one as I can often feel myself wanting to lash back out due to the condescending/argumentative behavior.

    A few more details - we are on a monthly retainer so there's not a lot of "scope creep".

    We are spending way too much time walking through every tiny detail and it is exhausting. Random phone calls during the day, not understanding where to find things after repeatedly showing, meetings going way over scheduled.

    We are getting the "I want this done now, but I want it perfect" scenario.

    But the biggest issue I am facing with is I often get a lot of snide remarks, and argumentative behavior "I already told you that days ago" when there was definitely no email or verbal confirmation (becoming a pattern). It's definitely someone who doesn't really know what exactly we do, but the condescending behavior has in my opinion been getting very close to needing addressing.

    I've been doing a lot of reading: don't take things personally, changing mindset to "we are having trouble seeing eye to eye" instead of "he is a bad client", explaining to them why things take time, etc.

    I think it's my personality as well to "talk back" so I find myself on the verge of saying something that may escalate things. Luckily I've been trying to get better at letting things go.

    It's been a process to really reflect on what I say and how I say it, but wondering if there's any advice to people who have dealt with similar issues.

    They are not integral to our business, but we do have numbers we are trying to hit so we like the revenue. Concerned it may take a toll on our company morale if we continue on this engagement though.

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    Question on choosing a registered agent to register an llc in new jersey

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 07:02 PM PDT

    Registering llc

    Hello! First post here. Sorry if this is a stupid question but am so lost trying to begin Registering llc in new jersey. How do I go about choosing a good registered agent? Any websites with reasonable fees to help complete the process?

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    Is there a safe way to give employee permissions to the company Instagram account without sharing the password?

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 10:16 AM PDT

    I'd like to allow the social media person to add & edit posts, comment, send & receive DMs. But of course, I'd like to do this without sharing the password, which effective hands over the entire account to them. It seems like you can do this on Facebook, but I can't seem to find a way on IG. Is there a way?

    Thanks.

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    CTO pay package in NYC/SF?

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 12:34 PM PDT

    Hi all- there are two companies that I may be interested in working with as CTO/Head of Engineering. What I'd like to know is this: for these companies and my skillset (described below), what would reasonable cash compensation + equity packages look like these days in competitive markets like SF or NYC?

    Both companies in the SaaS space. I have founded 2 startups (5+ years ago), with one small but successful exit. My background apart from that is that I started out in finance (sales and trading), learned to code at some point working with startups, and have been focused on the tech side of finance and healthcare for the past 7 years or so. So, I'm a business guy that has a strong track record designing and implementing pretty complicated systems and building the teams to support them, but also can deal with clients and investors in a totally credible way.

    I don't expect this to be a number that I'll match at a startup, but I was clearing >$300k as a full stack developer in my last corporate job.

    · Company A is a brand-new effort, with something like $400k raised (friends & family, + 1 accelerator) off of a very thin mockup and a CEO with serious hustle. Company A is in a very prestigious accelerator, and I think that the core team is quite strong, even if the actual product is still very broadly-defined and the concept is not fully baked. The CTO/Head of Engineering would probably just manage one part-time resource for the next few months while building out the MVP and starting to prepare to raise a proper seed round.

    · Company B has been around for about a year. They went through a semi-prestigious accelerator and just closed a seed round of ~$2m. They are technically still pre-revenue, but have signed a contract with a corporate client that will change that very shortly (contract value is something like $200k/annually, and there's a growing pipeline of prospects). The MVP of the product doesn't scale and needs to be rebuilt from scratch. The product itself is fairly unsexy, but in a good niche that I think they've approached the right way. The CTO/Head of Engineering would be responsible for hiring 2 additional engineers, and leading that development effort.

    So, putting aside intangibles like fit, culture, etc., let's talk money (and equity): what should I be asking for from either company? Both companies recognize that I'd be a really good fit and bring a diverse set of talents to the table, so I don't need to sell them on me- both have already thoroughly vetted me.

    Thanks in advance!

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    Finding a technical co-founder without getting my idea stolen

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 02:50 PM PDT

    I am an aspiring entrepreneur with a couple of ideas that I think are worth perusing, but I have very little technical skills and coding experience.

    How would I find a skilled engineer as a co-founder to help me with these pursuits?

    I feel if I pitched the idea to an engineer who saw no value in the idea, they wouldn't work with me. Conversely, I feel like an engineer who found lots of value in the idea would just execute something on their own with somebody who has better business acumen than me.

    My current ideas are

    1) learn to code and at least get the project up and running. Then find a co-founder once I need more complicated coding done. I do have some experience and would love to learn how to code myself, the only issue is that I suspect that my idea requires complex backend infrastructure and am also very serious about the UX and UI being near perfect.

    2) Get prospective co-founder engineers to sign an Nda before I pitch them so that they cant steal my idea

    3) Pitch the idea to software engineers anyway and stop being so worried about someone stealing my idea. If my idea could potentially be stolen and executed by an engineer who replaces me with someone who has better business acumen than me, then I was probably doomed from the start. I would hope that no engineer would be able to steal my idea and execute on it better than me, without me. I would hope that my vision, sales experience, marketing ideas, connections, and own unique way of thinking that led me to come up with this idea are essential to carrying out the idea.

    If anyone has any better ideas or insights, they would be much appreciated.

    Thanks

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    Do you outsource your work tasks to VAs or remote teams? Need help with a startup idea.

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 02:15 PM PDT

    I've been a freelancer for the E-commerce field and lead-generating for 2 years. I've gained some skills and experience to scale my knowledge and launch a startup. The idea is the following: focus on preparatory tasks of managers/owners, save their time for developing business, and leave the responsibility to manage freelancers or VA's.

    Also, I'm developing a Slack App, so everyone can delegate a task in 5 minutes right in a workspace and case of daily tasks receive this done in 12 hours in the morning.

    What tasks do you outsource to remote teams or VA's or you want to start doing this?

    We already have clients and good cases but before our official launch, maybe I would add/remove some services

    There're tasks I already offer to our clients:

    Help Desk integration

    Market and competitor research

    Hypothesis testing

    Manual Data Migration

    Lead Generation

    Client Nurturing

    Presentations Design

    HR Recruitment at High Turnover Positions

    Price Brokering

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    Reseller permit when selling into the USA from Canada

    Posted: 08 Jul 2020 01:28 PM PDT

    Hey there,

    I source products from the United States and get them shipped to US warehouses to be sold mainly to the US market.

    A lot of times I get asked for my resale certificate or permit from suppliers. I do not have one of these being based out of Canada.

    I understand they are trying to make sure I am not the end consumer and that I am authorized to buy the items at wholesale prices tax free from them so the end consumer end's up paying the taxes. I do have my GST/HST # in Canada and I am registered as a corporation in Canada.

    Usually I ask if my GST/HST # will be okay, when I get asked this.

    Anyone deal with this?

    Things I have:

    - Registered Corporation

    - GST/HST #

    - GST/HST Confirmation Letter

    - EIN ( Employee Identification Number )

    Things I may need:

    - US bank account for ACH ( automated clearing house ) transfers

    - Reseller permit or certificate

    Would love to hear some thoughts if anyone has dealt with anything similar.

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