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
- Looking for a simple, effective checklist for best practices in protecting IP.
- Whose COVID-related insights or predictions have made you think?
- I created a full fledged Job Search & Candidate management website in 4 months without spending a single dime. Which I will be launching this Wednesday.
- Searching potential customer point of view and opinions but via online
- How do you get your confidence back after a failed startup?
- I want to start a premium smartphone company, I’m 16, how and where do I start?
- Is it OK to create a multi creator website with features like YouTube
- Payment processor for my subscription MVP
- Looking for advice on how best to proceed
- Selling in multiple countries from day 1(seasonal products)?
- Sharing my favourite frameworks to make better decisions! What are yours?
- Looking for a cheap internet phone number (Canada) for forms.
- stopping subscribers from sharing out your negotiated discount(s)
- What is the catch with pre-IPO investing?
| Posted: 10 Aug 2020 06:08 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 REQUESTWhat 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. [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for a simple, effective checklist for best practices in protecting IP. Posted: 10 Aug 2020 07:31 PM PDT Some of our investors have outright stated that the most valuable thing about our startup, at this stage at least, is our intellectual property, which the investors feel has value and needs to be secured. They are assisting us with some of the legal aspects of this, however the technical aspects are left up to us. Is there a good guideline on avoiding malware, securing networks, etc.? How about a secure collaborative coding environment? We are up for exploring anything, but we need to be reasonably sure that we're protected; ironically, using a startups services is probably off the table. [link] [comments]  |
| Whose COVID-related insights or predictions have made you think? Posted: 10 Aug 2020 08:43 PM PDT Part of what makes startups exciting is our orientation to the future. Being right about what's going to happen is a strategic advantage in all sectors, but startups can make riskier bets and spring up or transform to capitalize on new opportunities quickly. Whose perspective on the impacts of Covid-19 have you found valuable, or just fascinating? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2020 05:32 AM PDT Okay, the title seems click-baity if I don't count the hours working on it. I technically spent $0, but worked on it full time 12 hours a day, everyday for 4 months. Hello r/startup. Over the past 4 months, I have been spending 12hrs everyday designing, developing, and learning as much as I can to develop my startup. I have been fortunate that my profession is UI/UX and design so I got that covered from the get go. All I needed to learn was backend development, and more front-end. For the record, I am trying to get into the job search, candidate management space for my country, and move to ASEAN, and then international in the future. As per my research, most of the local players here have very outdated websites, or the other are big players already (linkedin, indeed, etc.), but they lack the features that my Startup has. At my 4 month mark, I was able to develop a working application with:
Now, I will be launching my website this Wednesday, and I am just preparing everything in a marketing standpoint What do I do next? Everything is all bootstrapped, and I currently don't have investors or anything. What should I keep in mind before a new chapter of my startup opens up? [link] [comments]  |
| Searching potential customer point of view and opinions but via online Posted: 10 Aug 2020 04:19 PM PDT Hi, Im building a solution to help local stores and local manufacturers to boost their sales, and for pandemia reasons I can't move between several places, so how would you do it (maybe subreddit, an ad in facebook to invite them a Zoom, etc) Thank you for your advice! [link] [comments]  |
| How do you get your confidence back after a failed startup? Posted: 10 Aug 2020 09:40 AM PDT Hope this doesn't sound mopey, or asking for pity, I'm just at a point where my confidence is at rock bottom. After a year of free trials w/ customers, covid taught us that we are a nice to have not a need to have and put a bullet between our eyes. I remember 6 months ago I was so happy, excited, confident. Now I'm the loser with a failed startup, no $, back home w/ parents, no prestigious undergrad or employer - undesirable by employers. I need to get back in a groove, GROWING in life. Working towards a vision, towards the end goal. How did you get rolling again? Did you get a FT job? Did you read any books? Attend any talks/groups? Meditate? Move? I'm out of ideas/problems to solve. My industry insight is limited. But need to go forward. [link] [comments]  |
| I want to start a premium smartphone company, I’m 16, how and where do I start? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:06 AM PDT I'd like to start a premium smartphone company, but I have no idea where to start. I read that you should get someone to make a prototype, but.. who will do that? Also, I don't know anything about coding. I'd want them to run off android to start with, and maybe get their own modified OS later down the track. I want to be sort of along the lines of the company umidigi. Where do I start with this? [link] [comments]  |
| Is it OK to create a multi creator website with features like YouTube Posted: 10 Aug 2020 10:41 PM PDT I see most of the blogger suck at handling technical sides of a website. Most of the individual websites are so slow that its users lost their hype of browsing that website and recent blogging platforms suck at SEO. So I'm planning on creating a website which will have all the features and also the feature of monetizing and automated SEO. [link] [comments]  |
| Payment processor for my subscription MVP Posted: 10 Aug 2020 08:29 PM PDT I'm building an MVP that will:
I do not want to integrate payment technology into my site right now, I just want to link out to a third-party site to do the payment work. What vendor(s) can you recommend that:
Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for advice on how best to proceed Posted: 10 Aug 2020 08:19 PM PDT Long story short, a few years ago, I had a potentially lucrative idea which I filed a patent application for. For the purposes of this discussion, let's assume the examiner assigned to my application is accepting my most crucial claims. I have further developed a series of products based on the original patent pending design for a few related markets, and I intend on pursuing patent protection of these embodiments in further continuation applications. Based on years of research, I understand the technology like the back of my hand, I understand who exactly my target consumers are, I know I can give them exactly what they want, and further, I'm confident that my ideas have industry disrupting potential. While the costs associated with those further filings are not insignificant, the costs associated with building and optimizing prototypes are currently a limiting factor. Such prototypes are a prerequisite for receiving significant funding, and yet, without any funding, high quality prototypes can't get built. Until now the whole project's been bootstrapped and it's been kept more or less secret. I have no clue where to start in terms of where to find investors, or even how to identify a good or bad deal from an investor. I'm going to need engineering support, marketing support, general business development guidance, etc., and all of it is going to cost money. I was wondering how some of you might handle this situation. Are there any resources you'd recommend? First steps forward? Strategic guidance in the short and long term? Thanks for any help in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Selling in multiple countries from day 1(seasonal products)? Posted: 10 Aug 2020 03:30 PM PDT Hello Would selling in multiple countries from day 1 be a bad idea? I know that typically international expansion comes later on in the startup journey but I wanted to know what would be a good time to release products that primarily only have demand in one season. Would it be better to wait for the appropriate season in the country that you are located in or would it make sense to start selling in other countries that currently have the products' season as well as to the few customers(since it is off-season) in the country you are in? I understand that selling globally can be challenge and a business that is successful in one place might not be in another. After some research I found that selling in multiple countries on amazon is not as difficult as one would initially think as well. [link] [comments]  |
| Sharing my favourite frameworks to make better decisions! What are yours? Posted: 10 Aug 2020 03:39 AM PDT I stumbled upon some fabulous articles at Farnam Street last year which made me think about decision making as a skill. Why arent we taught about that in school? Do successful people know the science behind it or they just make good gut calls? How close can one get to making a science / actionable checklist of making decisions? I have now spent almost an entire year deep diving into this concept. It's a fascinating world of mental models, frameworks & cognitive biases. I wrote a (free!) 2000 guide about it recently here, but I wanted to personally share my top 5 frameworks with everyone here. Of course, not everyone framework works for every scenario e.g. if you are a VC funded startup your main goal is to avoid the #2 below :D #1 - Focus on avoiding stupid decisions, not finding brilliant ideas I read about this via Benjamin Graham & Warren Buffet. I used to spend way too much time trying to find great ideas. Now I just focus on the basics first. #2 - Avoid ruin. Survive long enough to get lucky. Found this via Naval Ravikant. There is an entire mathematical model around this called Kelly's Criterion. It shows how much you can gamble on each round in a poker game! This one took me the longest to absorb. Does this mean that you don't take big risks? Probably you have to find your own barometer.. I am using this personally myself a lot. Hopefully will help me build a "build to last" SaaS! #3 - Invert, always invert Applying this leads to #1 actually e.g. instead of finding how to succeed, find how to fail. Thinking in bets by Annie Duke also touches on this topic. #4 - Decrease the scope and make small bets This one is called Parkinson's Law. Found it in a fantastic post by the Basecamp guys. It simply means that work expands to fill the time allocated to it. So if you can keep shipping small MVPs of your big features, you will be good! #5 - Analyse 2nd & 3rd order effects of your decision This one is fascinating, and yet obvious in hindsight. The technical term is Chestertons Fence and there is a lot of research that have been done on this. I am reading about many more such frameworks e.g. First principles thinking right now. Would love to learn from others and understand the ones that people here prefer and have found working for them? [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for a cheap internet phone number (Canada) for forms. Posted: 10 Aug 2020 09:37 AM PDT I've been doing a lot of searching for vendors recently, and I really don't like putting my personal phone number on the forms. I have a suspicion that this info eventually leads to scam calls and random sales calls. I'd like to have a number setup that people can call and leave a message at a minimum. I'm in Canada but I'm open to any number that will work for this. Any ideas? [link] [comments]  |
| stopping subscribers from sharing out your negotiated discount(s) Posted: 10 Aug 2020 06:10 AM PDT Currently looking to launch a subscription service which means companies will be able to leverage large discounts from big suppliers as one of the perks of the subscription. We have a concern though that subscribing companies will share these discounts with non subscribing entities and are trying to find a way of closing this loop with a supplier so only subscribers get the discount - any ideas? both legal and technical ideas welcome. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| What is the catch with pre-IPO investing? Posted: 10 Aug 2020 04:46 AM PDT Has anyone here managed to successfully invest in pre-IPO stages via angel.co or equity zen or similar sites? And did your investing efforts with individual startups and pre-IPO companies yield significantly higher results than S&P500 benchmark index investing? What is the catch and how to best do due diligence in order to invest successfully in other startups? To me it seems like investing in publicly traded companies has become too "efficient" and too "priced in". Basically, since the barrier of entry is low to trade on Robinhood too many people are doing it, so you can't really get the same return you could where barrier of entry is higher like investing in pre-IPOs as an accredited investor. Any good resources one should read if they are ready to become one? [link] [comments]  |
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