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- Feedback Fridays - A Friendly Feedback Exchange For Ideas and Products
- Invention, requires manufacturing beyond my income, don't want to lose the idea.
- Best service to avail legal aid from?
- Hiw to get B2B Customers
- How to market a low-cost sturdy software to enterprise
- Custom PC Creators
- Competition against a well funded start-up
- Looking for alternatives to social media marketing. It feels like a massive waste of time.
- NYS LLC - Where do I put my newspaper ads?
- Raising capital?
- The chicken or the eggs...
- Where’s the best place to form a company?
- How did you find your investor ? (I want to hear your personal story)
- Warm Intro Blurb (About me or the company?)
- Questions about starting a meditation app
- Every time I think of starting a project I found reasons not to
- How to start a company
- Being a Co-Founder positive in the CV?
- Building a Facebook group community. Should I name it after the brand or should I name it relevant to search terms?
- What's the right way to quit this startup?
- IT Security - meeting to defeat inactivity, proposed structures, successful IT Security in the Startup
- What questions would you ask to the candidate for the Growth Marketing Manager position?
- How to start a jewelry rental business
| Feedback Fridays - A Friendly Feedback Exchange For Ideas and Products Posted: 31 Jul 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]  |
| Invention, requires manufacturing beyond my income, don't want to lose the idea. Posted: 31 Jul 2020 10:06 PM PDT Edit: Alright already got some great feedback about the provisional patent/ some similar paths I could take. I would also like to say that I totally understand my idea isn't worth shit until people want to buy it and it isn't worth shit until I fully prove it. Its more so that in order to know if it is even worth proving I have to go all the way and try to prove it. Really appreciate the answers I have gotten so far though so thank you. I am an engineering student. I have a fairly simple idea that I have researched and it seems to me that no one else has come up with what I have found. I have tested the idea several times on my own and while I believe that I have seen enough evidence through my experiments to back my idea up, I do not have the resources to create the full product that would be a full proof of concept which would allow me to patent/take my idea public/ to the market. To get the full product I would need to explain the idea and the product and have it manufactored professionally. Doing this would give the idea away. Going to any of my proffessors for help would be the same thing, by the time I had any answers to my issue the idea would have been very easy to take and implement on their own. Anyone with the means of making what I would need to be made would also have the means of taking the idea, but I can't file any sort of patent because there a couple of things with the product I still need to figure out, but again I need a very specific set up to figure out those issues that would have to be professionally made. Any sort of investment would involve me having to explain the idea, and then that person/people could take the idea and use their money. This may seem very broad and also really stupid, and I don't know all that much about intellectual property law, patents, and related subjects, nor that much about how relationships with manufactures go. Any resources, previous posts, articles, etc that could help point me in the right direction are very appreciated and I apoligize in advance since I am sure I have said plenty that is either really dumb or doesn't make sense. [link] [comments]  |
| Best service to avail legal aid from? Posted: 31 Jul 2020 09:22 PM PDT So I was looking into legalzoom and rocketlawyer and noticed how there are so many options. Legalzoom seems to be the cheaper and better, but I wanted some outside opinion. What would you say are the best, price conscious options of legal aid for a startup? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2020 11:24 AM PDT Hi, so i was wondering how to approach B2B Custoemrs the right way? I've build a network on linkedin and im posting content which helps to get some awareness but im still missing out in warm leads or any kind of leads. Do you have any advice? Or where to focus? Im thinking about sending like 100 Emails to diffrent companies just to get something back even if its negative at least i would get something. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| How to market a low-cost sturdy software to enterprise Posted: 01 Aug 2020 01:26 AM PDT Hi, working in enterprise software over 20 years, I was always trying to find ways of doing things that were as low-cost as possible, and also as study as possible. The low-cost part is obvious for me: if things are cheaper, I can go further on my mission with the budget I am given, and a lot of enterprise software is priced outrageously while not bringing anything distinctive. Actually, outrageously high cost is often a smell for other problems: such as overly complicated stuff that will lack robustness... The sturdy part is slightly less obvious, but as I had to run software for a long time with a limited IT talent pool, going for tried and tested mainstream technology, instead of newer shinier stuff makes a lot of sense too. Shiny stuff very often ends badly. Now, on my current project/start-up, I actually built a tool that is low-cost (open-source...) and, I believe, sturdy, but I find selling those two points quite hard (maybe there are other factors also such as me being a 'small guy' compared to well-established products...), but, still, I am surprised at the lack of enthusiasm for those two points inside the decision making circles. I am quite atypical in the enterprise software scene, as I had the chance to work partly in the management layers where decisions are made, and still keep some operational knowledge and task, so maybe my taste for low-cost sturdy stuff is not that common. I would be interested in any insight on the way to sell / educate on those points. I would love to hear your opinion. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2020 10:01 PM PDT Hello Redditors, I'm more so looking for advice rather than pitch an idea, anything helps to be honest. A friend and I have been doing a lot of talking about starting a business where we make special edition computers. You see a lot about people trying this and failing, but most do not add anything special to their business/computers. We have a combined 12 years of experience in building and fixing computers. Our main idea is to have limited edition computers every so often that we handcraft. We'd buy a companies case, then change it to better fit our theme, much like how Ironside makes their custom computers. I know our idea only sells to the gamers/enthusiasts already deep into their hobby, but I think an idea like this is too good not to get feedback from. There's a lot more we've been talking about, but my mind blanked when typing so I'm ready to answer every comment. [link] [comments]  |
| Competition against a well funded start-up Posted: 31 Jul 2020 11:07 AM PDT I have been working on an idea. Had done market validation n was working on developing it with a few folks. But being job doers, we worked on it at nights, except me working full time. Recently, a product with almost the same but abstract idea launched n is gaining popularity so it's like 1 month 10 k downloads. Now m feeling a little disheartened for not having hurried enough. How should I plan for competition against a well-funded startup (we had bootstrapped many things cuz we were college folks just previous year n wanted to prove that hard work matters more than money). [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for alternatives to social media marketing. It feels like a massive waste of time. Posted: 31 Jul 2020 03:32 AM PDT Is there a way around social media? I feel like nowadays, especially for people starting from 0, social media is a lot of efforts for low results. The thing is I'm a graphic designer and I feel like I'm expected to have a presence but what I do isn't necessarily pretty or high end or it's a lot of website maintenance stuffs for ex. I have few clients at the time too but they take a lot of time and it's mostly the same "boring" things I do for them. I could repost and share quotes etc but that's nothing innovative and you can easily find all that online. And the issue is that it has to be constant and they keep adding content to create to rank well on the algorithm.. But it's actually the same with the brands that contact me for social media. Some of them have competitors in social media that already are huge and they aren't willing to budget enough for it to be of any use or compete successfully with these huge brands. Tbh it also just all seems so fake and always the same content that I'm started to get an aversion for it almost. Do you think social media is necessary for businesses or do you have any recommendations or alternatives to Facebook/Instagram. What options do you think are most efficient for online marketing? I've been doing this for 3 years and it's truly getting nowhere and taking up all my time. [link] [comments]  |
| NYS LLC - Where do I put my newspaper ads? Posted: 31 Jul 2020 02:25 PM PDT I just set up an LLC in NYC and am at the part where I need to publish ads in a newspaper for 6 consecutive weeks. We don't have an office yet but will be operating out of Brooklyn eventually. Does it matter that we don't have an office address yet? Should I still get the ads published in Kings county (Brooklyn)? The address on the LLC filings is in Westchester because that's where I live so I'm wondering if that means I actually need to get the ads placed up here? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2020 08:43 AM PDT So I've outsourced my app idea and need help RAISING capital. I've heard of kickstart, but what other sources or resources are available? I don't want to take a loan out. This capital is partly for the cost of the app, I'm bootstrapping the rest. Capital would be used pretty much more marketing to grow the app awareness. So far I thought of asking family members and friends as the app comes along, but I would also like an investor that gives mentorship in return. Any feedback is welcomed, thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2020 02:07 PM PDT Hey Team, I've been working on my product for the past 6 months or so. The idea was born by listening to people complain and watching them struggle...so finally I set off to solve the problem. The solution I've come up with works, solves the problem and wow's people when they see it. This is a consumer electronics device so I'm going to need FCC/IC testing (ugh... sigh I'm currently at $0 revenue) but the other part I'm struggling with is on the business side... how much to charge and how to scale. The tech is done just need some business advice. Looking forward to some feedback. [link] [comments]  |
| Where’s the best place to form a company? Posted: 31 Jul 2020 01:38 AM PDT I have a marketing agency with 2 other cofounders and we are all spread across the globe (USA, Canada, Taiwan) so I suppose we can form it wherever has the best tax benefits? Does anyone have any experience forming a company someplace like the British Virgin Islands? Is it easy to do? How does it affect my taxes back home in the US? [link] [comments]  |
| How did you find your investor ? (I want to hear your personal story) Posted: 31 Jul 2020 12:11 PM PDT hey guys, my firends and I founded a company and it kinda got a little attention. We won a prize and had some interviews. We are still in a very early stage. Concept for the App is done and programming started. (We also have a secound Idea with creating a digital twin for the Industry) but anyway...... ...our biggest problem is finding the right investor. We got some money but only small amounts. Its more like a funding from the state which supports these kind of projects but its far from what we need to make something really good. So I want to hear your personal story how your Idea got financed. - How you met your investor - What was the conditions you agreed on - I would also like to know the amount ( but if its to personal I fully understand that) - And your biggest advice from your expierence I dont need any theortical advice, I did it all, read the books, visited the speeches and asked everybidy for advice. I just want to her your story from your perspectiv. Thank you very much and hopefully your company will be a big success [link] [comments]  |
| Warm Intro Blurb (About me or the company?) Posted: 31 Jul 2020 11:36 AM PDT Hi I am reaching out to friends and connections to get intros to investors and am unsure about what to write to my connections. Should I include a blurb that they can forward? and should the blurb be about me or the company? I had assumed that most of the details about the company would be in the follow-up email that i will send once i am introduced. Will their intro email be short and sweet? ie "i know this person from x and i recommend them because of y" or is their email expected to be a pitch of the company itself. Seems like a very confounding and antiquated process. [link] [comments]  |
| Questions about starting a meditation app Posted: 31 Jul 2020 10:44 AM PDT Hi dear all I'm currently working as a Brand Manager in a global FMCG company. I have a meditation app idea. All other business & marketing issues aside I had a hard time solving some of the below questions: 1) Would you recommend working with B level Indian developers? I have no development exp. Donr want a fully bugged, design flawed app but dont have enough capital or confidence to go for a premium developer 2) If you suggest finding a developer partner, do you tell the all about your business plan during the interview? This goes for other people as well. If you have a unique -but hard to execute- idea, would you comdortably share it with everyone to get feedbacks? 3) As an MVP I considered starting a Youtube channel with some of the meditations. Do you think it makes sense? What would be KPIs? Views, view rates, likes, comments? How are they translatable into a validation for my app? 4) If I launch a basic version of the app, I fear anyone downloading it early would lose interest before waiting the full version. I believe full version has justifiable merits though, how can I keep or reach those initial users? Via mail? 5) I am going to need one or more content partners to facilitate meditations. I believe I can contribute writing as well but would prefer to keep an expert in the loop. Shall I pay them upfront (Got limited cash, mostly reserved for development and marketing) or offer partnership? If partnership, how much - as a range? 6) Can I start developing with a person/team and than hand it over to another if I'm not satisfied or have more budget to spare in phase 2? 7) Can the developers take into consideration what future features I have in mind? If we dont think of it before, how complicated it is to add new features? (Any general learnings?₺) 8) Can I find people/ teams who can do all graphics, animations, UI/UX, development from scratch? 9) What would be you go-to-marketing platform for a meditation app? I considered app store ads, social media and online communities 10) On social media ads, would you recommend CPC or CPM model? I fear CPI would be too expensive. Is 2% downloads a valid rate for CPM model? Got around 15-20K USD. Hoping it's enough to roll out a basic version and earn. Would appreciate any general or specific comment Best [link] [comments]  |
| Every time I think of starting a project I found reasons not to Posted: 31 Jul 2020 01:08 PM PDT Every time I think of something interesting I'd like to work on I find 1000 reasons why I should not start with it. I had my fair share of failures and now I think good before I start with something. I do market research, I ask myself: - Why would people use it - Why would they pay for it - How do you plan to compete with competitors - How do you do marketing and promotion - How do you solve chicken-egg problem And then when I answer all those questions I realize that there is no reason to continue. Either there is no enough money, either I have no skills to pull it off... I tried to find cofounder but I know how hard it is. What do you do in these situations? How do you cope with it? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2020 12:45 PM PDT Hi, I want to keep this simple. I want to start a company now, even though I wont really be doing much with it. I am learning iOS Dev right now and have a few app ideas. Before I build and publish anything I want to start an official company that would be mine. What steps do I need to do to accomplish this? I searched google for a while, but all of the articles are like have a business plan in mind and how to start marketing...like I don't care about that. I just want to have a company to my name and establish it through the state of Delaware. If I am being unclear (which I'm sure I am) please let me know to clarify anything! Thanks guys. [link] [comments]  |
| Being a Co-Founder positive in the CV? Posted: 31 Jul 2020 11:28 AM PDT I was wondering if being a co-founder (while studying) is a pisitive thing. I heard frim friends that the HR when it comes down to a decision would prefer the working student of a bigger company instead of an former co-founder. Is being a Co-Founder that bad in the business world? What are the chances when your startup fails? The working experience isnt really applyable on any other position.... maybe as a CEO or managing director but else.. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 31 Jul 2020 04:35 AM PDT Hi guys, We're launching a delivery business soon and we're going to build a community through Facebook groups first. The issue is that we want to make it easy for people to find our group, so being a new unknown brand is it better to use our brand name or relevant search terms? Eg: (Brand Name) - Local Food New York VS Local Food New York - (Brand Name) [link] [comments]  |
| What's the right way to quit this startup? Posted: 31 Jul 2020 08:26 AM PDT For the past 5 months, I've been working at a startup. I'm not quite c-level, but just below it, and people look to me as a sign for the company, but I'm not sure to what degree. I'm one of those people whose main job is to know what's going on across every team and project (~40 people). I'm pretty much done with the company. I don't like the direction it's going and I don't have power to change it, and I've lost interest in specifically, the solution space as opposed to the problem space. I won't quit immediately, until I find something else, but moving on is in my plan. I don't want to cause a fuss, and I'd like it to be as low friction as possible, but there's a bit of a culture against those who move on. Didn't see that coming, otherwise I would have tried to address this early. What's the professional way to step away here? Options (I guess?):
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| Posted: 31 Jul 2020 07:55 AM PDT I will be holding several meetings to talk about IT Security at my organization. Want to understand the problems, motivations, preferred way of work from teams to achieve/improve Security at our organization. I am the person who should help the organization with its IT Security. As you can imagine there are several areas to cover. I also am aware of the current problems. Will raise the issues (inactivity, past incidents, not valuing the craftmanship, threats out there, need of hardening, detection, protection etc) Now we have a Head of Information Security (me), small Security Team (2 Engineers), Security Champions in regards to Security (dozen). We also have PO, PM, Tech Leads, Heads of other departments, Directors, C-level (CTO, CEO) obviously teams etc. Tech Leads take part in grooming and planning. Rest is Scrum framework based, agile (vertical slicing, feature teams etc etc) The idea I want push is for me to work with TL about Security Topics. They should then advocate Security, guard best practices with PM/PO and other Devs. Sec Champions should be the bridge between Developers and Sec Team. We are ca. 100 engineers, employees strong organization (startup) Interesting if you saw some structures, in similar organization, that what would you propose. Questions: 1) How should we work on IT Security? 2) What organization structure do you propose? 3) What points would your raise? 4) How to battle, open eyes to IT Security problem for the rest of the organization? My other post related to this question: https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/i1bijs/role_of_head_of_in_agile_startup/ Thanks, [link] [comments]  |
| What questions would you ask to the candidate for the Growth Marketing Manager position? Posted: 31 Jul 2020 03:46 AM PDT Hello awesome people. If you were to hire a Growth Marketing Manager for your SaaS. What questions would you ask the candidate? What qualities will inspire you? What knowledge do you expect him/her to be equipped with during the interview? Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| How to start a jewelry rental business Posted: 31 Jul 2020 06:31 AM PDT I've had my current jewelry company running for over three years now. While it did take a huge hit this year, I would like to add jewelry rentals to the site due to increase interest.
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