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- Feedback Fridays - A Friendly Feedback Exchange For Ideas and Products
- Need Advice: Co-Founder left, but we're still using their code
- Interesting Indie Hacker article that shows only 12 founders out of 17,000 members could produce 10k+ MRR. The odds look awful.
- Instagram advertising question
- Should I trademark my company name and logo?
- Funding a startup
- Is this job posting a scam?
- Please help finding clothing manufacturer
- Codeless walkthrough tool advice
- Outsourcing vs In-house
- Creative Funding Ideas
- Advice for Next Steps - Get a job?
- Question: Market Research and Outreach For a (somewhat) Niche Group
- Early stage startup co-founder is constantly late for meetings
- Is it normal to pay customers for using my product (a low code development platform)
- Website with User Profiles Login/Register Page
- Hey anyone have advice on landing an internship/potential future job with a startup?
- Need help getting my products out there!
- Will have an interview with a Startup company today. What to expect?
- Tech stack: How do you track emails and manage prospect sequencing?
- Proper Market Research and MVP validation
- How to profit from a product reviewing facebook group.
| Feedback Fridays - A Friendly Feedback Exchange For Ideas and Products Posted: 21 Aug 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]  |
| Need Advice: Co-Founder left, but we're still using their code Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:36 PM PDT Hi! I'm a student working on a social app startup (not incorporated yet). My co-founder left a month ago on bad terms. We did not have any agreements signed, so they own all of their contributions to our app. I came up with the idea (name and features) and programed ~95% of the app. They programmed ~5% of the app and mainly interviewed users and got users to try our app I first wanted to resolve this through an agreement. However, they're asking for an unreasonable amount of equity (10% forever) in order for them to assign their IP to my company. I really don't think we'll be able to reach a resolution. So I was wondering how I can remove all their IP in the safest way possible. I'm thinking of deleting all their code... but should I watch out for anything else, any "IP edge cases?" Would really appreciate your advice. I'm new to the startup scene and I'm really scared of being sued later on. Note: I live in Minnesota, and they live in Virginia. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 22 Aug 2020 01:53 AM PDT https://www.indiehackers.com/post/holy-heck-this-is-hard-8ebe864174 Granted, my personal theory is that a large chunk of the 17,000 have never sincerely attempted starting a business, but even if you take a small percentage of that 17,000 userbase, 12 founders is still a horrifically small number of (modest) success. 10k * 12 = $120,000/year, a paltry sum to most high-paying careers. I welcome any CMV's that can argue better odds of success. I am floored by the numbers and thought it'd be interesting to share. [link] [comments]  |
| Instagram advertising question Posted: 21 Aug 2020 08:45 AM PDT Hey guys! I have a pretty specific question about Instagram advertising and I don't know the best place to ask, so feel free to delete this if not allowed. Basically my problem is that in order to advertise on Instagram I have to link it to a Facebook account, and if I create a Facebook page for my business then all my Facebook friends will see my business page, and will likely be notified that I'm now on instagram as 'business account name'. This seems like a silly problem, and I'm not ashamed of starting a business or anything, but I don't feel like telling everyone I know about it yet, and I'd prefer to explain it to my friends when I feel ready to. The obvious solution is to make a new Facebook account, but Facebook isn't letting me make a new account even after I contacted them about it! Any thoughts?? Thanks :) [link] [comments]  |
| Should I trademark my company name and logo? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:10 PM PDT I launched a C corp in Delaware and have the .com domain along with a few other domains. The product has not been launched yet. Should I trademark the company name and logo before product launch? On average, how long would it take to trademark a name and a logo? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 12:19 PM PDT What are the best ways to fund a startup?. I am starting an agribusiness and I decided to invite friends to a fundraiser lunch. The goal of the lunch is to raise money and also to pitch the idea to some of my friends who would be interested in investing their money to get it back with interest. I have already sent out invites but I am second guessing my decision. I am asking for your opinion on this and advice on funding a startup. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 03:07 PM PDT Hi Everyone, I recently just had an initial interview with a startup company for a product manger role, but something just seems off. I am going to go through my entire experience with the company. 2 months ago, I applied for the product manger job post on Angel List. I was matched with them the next day, and I sent a message stating how I was excited to learn more about the company. I tried to find the person of contact on LinkedIn but was unable to do so. Then two months went by and I didn't hear from them, so I forgot all about them. Yesterday, I received a message from the job poster, asking for my availability to meet with their CEO. There were other basic product manger questions I answered as well. The meeting was scheduled for today on Skype. She asked for my Skype user name, and that the CEO will call me at the designated time. I tried to look up info on the company before the interview, but I couldn't find anything on crunchbase. There appears to be other companies with the same name. I found the CEO on LinkedIn, but is work history says "Startup" for the last 5 years, along with some other places. I assume this is because he is trying to keep his startup in stealth mode. But I couldn't find any activity on his LinkedIn. The CEO calls me at the scheduled time, and I answer via video call. He never turns his video on, and instead is just sharing a screen. The interview starts off by him having a powerpoint up to explain his company and his background. He some reason also had a picture of him and Steve Wasniak together, but I also couldn't see the picture very well, so no idea if that was actually him or not. I then explain my background, and he asks some basic interview questions to me. Then I have time to ask some questions for him. He claims that he use to work for a former VC, and that he is 4-8 weeks away from closing a round. He never stated how much, or from who he was raising. He then says they are looking to hire very soon, and asks if I am selected, can I start by the end of next week. We finish the 30 minute call by scheduling another call on Monday. The company does have a website, but it is brand new, and many of the links are still broken. I tried to google the CEO and I couldn't find anything on him. I just looked at the his Skype profile and his user name is: "**tester***". Am I being too paranoid that this is some how a scam that I am missing, or is there definitely reasons to be concerned? Update: It is definitely fake. I decided to do some reverse image searches on the CEO and one employee. The CEO's picture comes up for another fake company, and the one employee is just taken from an image from a Turkish model. Next Question, how do I report this to Angel List? [link] [comments]  |
| Please help finding clothing manufacturer Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:28 PM PDT I am a young adult interested in starting a small online fashion brand. I have ideas and designs but I am just missing a manufacturer. My friends has a manufacturer where they just send designs and they will send her the clothes. I am trying to find something like this but I am struggling. I am pretty inexperienced and don't know what to do. Any suggestions of decent priced clothing manufacturers that can ship worldwide? [link] [comments]  |
| Codeless walkthrough tool advice Posted: 21 Aug 2020 03:52 PM PDT Hello, I would like to add some walkthroughs to help our users setup our application. I know some of these tools offer in depth analystics. But I am most concerned with just guiding the user. Some of the tools I have looked at simply create an interative slide deck. I am looking for something that actually guides the use in entering data in our appliation. Cost effective would be great as we are bootstrapping. I am looking for something to be almost codeless. So that our customer success people can build the tutorials without having to tap an engineer. Pendo, Appcues, UsePilot are examples. Userguiding has a bootstrapping discount which would be great. Looking for people who have tried out some of these, and which option they settled on and why. Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:22 PM PDT I know it's a cliché question but please help me decide it. I have two options I can do complete outsourcing of application for which developers taking as much as 60-70% of my total budget in 40days. While on the other hand I am thinking of permanent hiring a backend developer who will take ~5% of my budget per month and I'll do frontend myself. While first option is fast and costly second option is slow but in budget. I want to keep as much money as I can saved because I'll definitely need it in future. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2020 12:43 PM PDT Hi Everyone - I'm sure you've seen this post a lot. I've done some searching myself and came up on a few ideas. I'm currently building a web-based platform, think Glassdoor but for diversity and inclusion. It's pretty robust it will cost a decent amount of money to build. I've been introducing myself to VCs, introducing the idea and they love it. But I've been told at this stage its best to bootstrap it to atleast get the platform built, which I agree with. I just don't come from money where asking friends and family for a couple thousand is feasible. I've been thinking about trying to get a loan. I'm confident we'll make any start up costs back once it's ready. I also saw a post on here where someone suggested getting deposits from customers, explaining the stage you're in and offering a discount for opting in early. Sounds interesting? Anyway, does anyone have any ideas for getting an extra $20K to get this off the ground? [link] [comments]  |
| Advice for Next Steps - Get a job? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:06 AM PDT I self-funded (bootstrapped) a company and it's gotten to about 50k ARR. Working solo. Unfortunately, target industry was so affected by COVID that I've barely grown during the crisis. Good thing is that I kept all my customers so that's that. Unfortunately for me, the opportunity is not quite VC-friendly as it's more of a millions space rather than a billions of dollars space. Will make quite a good lifestyle biz for me though. I've tried to raise in vain. I think being solo didn't really help. I still believe in the market and I can foresee building to $1M ARR in the next five years with probably 3 employees. Now I'm running out of savings and considering getting a full time role as a dev to cover mortgage etc. I can barely survive on the 50k but I can easily get a cushy dev role that will pay many multiples of that due to my previous work experience. I'm torn between giving up the freedom I have enjoyed for a while now and getting cash that will make my life easier and allow me to take some important family decisions. I think the stress created by the lack of money has also really slowed my progress. If I get back to industry, I suppose I'll keep growing the company on the side for a while till things stabilize and I get to about $15k MRR. I'll also try to pay down the house quickly first so I'm guessing it'll be at least 3 years before I get back to doing this full-time. What would you do in my situation? Any advice welcome. Thanks in advance [link] [comments]  |
| Question: Market Research and Outreach For a (somewhat) Niche Group Posted: 21 Aug 2020 04:21 PM PDT Hi all, I've recently gotten involved with a startup and am currently tasked with market research for validating the need for our idea(s) and adjusting software development accordingly in the near future. That being said, the primary group that we are striving to reach out to right now ideally falls under the freelancer/self-employed, entrepreneur, and small-business owner population. I've been working on reading up on how to get the most out of this research, but what seems to be a roadblock for myself and our group is actually finding enough of these individuals to get substantive data to move forward on. So here lies my question, does anyone have any worthwhile advice based off their own experiences that may help us out in increasing the people we can get in touch with? I've begun using various social media platforms in search of people who fit this criteria as I know there are plenty out there but beyond that and word of mouth with peers, we aren't making much progress. So I would just like to know if this is the best we can do to reach out or if there is more creative worth trying. Lastly, as this is a new process for my group and myself I'm welcome to any relevant insight be it concrete or just conceptual. Thank you for your time and I appreciate any help we can get! [link] [comments]  |
| Early stage startup co-founder is constantly late for meetings Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:42 AM PDT My co-founder is basically never on time and I am at a loss on what to do next. On top of that their spouse is usually in the background blasting the TV, playing music loudly or talking to my co-founder interrupting things on purpose. This is a daily occurance. Any tips or best practices on how to deal with this? My industry is one that on time means showing up early so while my standards might be a bit higher, this is still unacceptable. I have communicated the need to be on time but it still happens. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it normal to pay customers for using my product (a low code development platform) Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:59 AM PDT Hi, so I've mostly written a low code platform core and looking into turning it into a product and a business. The product itself may be seen as a visual programming tool, a graphical flowchart execution engine or a convenient user interface for a multi-protocol integration framework. I try positioning it as something simple but not basic, and something able to grow big. The downside of this project is that the platform is too universal. It's like another programming language in terms that you can do anything with it in any industry and of any complexity. It's also envisaged to gain more traction when an ecosystem or a marketplace of shareable flowchart libraries for basic reusable functions appears. With all that I need to apply the platform to a couple of the real world problems so that it is proven viable. As I was working all alone for an extended period of time, a couple of friends that could order me some automation, and be loyal to the lack of documentation, possible delays for fixing bugs and implementing the forgotten functions, wouldn't do it anymore - they're either too high level now or vice versa went bankrupt. So I thought why not to pay someone to use my product? My question for the community is whether there is such a service anywhere, for example, on Upwork or Fiverr. How do I call them, how do I word a job offer? While at first it may look more like a technical alpha testing for bugs wich I expect to be numerous, the outcome of this should be some real world service or a useful api that is able to be shown as a platform usage example. I see it as a team of low code developers, and a future partner that may start using my platform for their future projects for real customers. So ideally the team I'd hire aren't just a bunch of testers that apply test scenarios. They should have an idea how a low code platform can be applied in real life, and may later become my first users for actual commercial projects of theirs. I could hire more then one of such teams that may cover more target industries. So what do you think, does this service have a name? How do I motivate them to learn my platform? Me paying them - is it weird, too original or actually an old practice? Can they be motivated avoid the endless discovery of new critical functionality gaps so that I eventually may release a normal paid version/service? What if I ask them to write the user guide also? The bugs they found will be fixed by a separate team. I wouldn't want them to code the platform itself, only use it. If it matters, English isn't my native language, I'm from Russia. [link] [comments]  |
| Website with User Profiles Login/Register Page Posted: 21 Aug 2020 02:11 PM PDT Hi, I'm 19 years old and I'm still in school so I don't have any financial resources. I can get a maximum of 1000€ from my mother. My problem is that I can do the front-end development thanks to Webflow. And I already have some websites created with Webflow. But I just don't know how to make the login/register page. Where people can register and have a profile. My idea is the following: I am the mediator. People can upload their software and others can download it either for free or with money. Depending on what the uploader has set it as. Can anyone give me some advice on how to get the back-end thing up and running? Are there any plugins or something like that? Front-End = Webflow Payment = Stripe User Profiles = ??? It's just agonizing to see your idea stagnate if you know what I mean. [link] [comments]  |
| Hey anyone have advice on landing an internship/potential future job with a startup? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:25 AM PDT I'm a BBA Marketing major with several years retailexperience. I currently attend a research university, and I've always been interested in getting startup experience. Any advice would be great! Like, how do I seek out these startups? How many internships is too many to apply to? How do I stand out as an applicant? I'm interested in fashion, tech, business development and B2B sales. Thanks in advance!! [link] [comments]  |
| Need help getting my products out there! Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:06 AM PDT Hi! So my products are based on the music industry and they're kind of like merch for rappers and other artists. I've been advertising a bit using subreddits and instagram hashtags but I'm sure that I can get more sales if I get the word out more. Any advice on how to go about this? [link] [comments]  |
| Will have an interview with a Startup company today. What to expect? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:55 AM PDT A tech/startup company reached out to me 2 days ago about an accounting position. I passed the phone screen yesterday and now I'm interviewing with the controller later today. I have 0 experience working or even dealing with startups. My industry was actually in non-profit, and so I was actually surprised that they would reach out to me. But I do think this is an interesting industry and it's an opportunity that's worth pursuing. I know that Startups is a different category of its own, and they have unique cultures. What kind of questions would they most commonly ask? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Tech stack: How do you track emails and manage prospect sequencing? Posted: 21 Aug 2020 05:20 AM PDT I'm starting to do more and more cold reachouts and I would love find some free tools for prospecting 101. Namely a tool to track who opens and reads my emails and also a tool like Outreach that helps me build sequences. What do you use? Bonus question: what do you use as your CRM? Currently I'm using a spreadsheet for my lead tracking, but I think I'm going to quickly run into issues keeping it up to date. [link] [comments]  |
| Proper Market Research and MVP validation Posted: 21 Aug 2020 04:24 AM PDT Hello, I have an idea described below. And I want to do proper market research and validate my MVP. What would be a smart way of doing this? I'm doing this to get facts and not to prepare some presentation for investors. My idea: Selling handmade pashmina wool apparels which are made by locals and designed by students from local fashion school. Market is Europe and apparel origin is India. Niche Value - Customers would be able to get info about who ( the person) made their apparel, where it was made and who designed it. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| How to profit from a product reviewing facebook group. Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:50 AM PDT I am the admin of said group, it consists of people in my city inquiring about products and other people answering them. I thought about advertising products by pinning their posts as product of the day for people to review them that day. There are around 20k members. Any help is appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
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