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
- How Many Shares To Issue For Startup?
- How do I get organic traffic to my website?
- When and how do I approach investors?
- recommend mobile Apps an Entrepreneur must have in his mobile
- Am I able to create this website myself?
- How to best spend marketing budget?
- How to manage company shares
- What’s your take on a FB advertising approach?
- How do you turn customers to promoters if your company follows product-led growth?
- Soft skills vs hard skills
- Advice on buying a Social script for startup
- How to increase your website traffic with broad audience, without bots?
- Startup wants me as contractor for 90 days
- Crazy to go compete with an established company?
- How much of your funding went to Marketing? How did that work out?
- General Liability Insurance. Where to get it?
- How to setup analytics early in the game?
| Wednesday Social Club - Share What Events You Are Attending This Coming Week Posted: 26 Aug 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. [link] [comments]  |
| How Many Shares To Issue For Startup? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 11:07 AM PDT Hi All Have been reading up on share issuance at the formation of a startup and have seen 10,000,000 shares mentioned a few times as a standard amount to issue, with a low nominal/par value of like 0.0001. I believe these numbers were based on a startup looking to go the VC route and raise money. Would you say a startup looking at bootstrapping particularly the early stages and maybe raising money later on should issue the same amount of shares or a lower amount? [link] [comments]  |
| How do I get organic traffic to my website? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 08:05 PM PDT I've recently launched my website which is a free website builder. I've currently got 500 users which have come from me joining Facebook groups, Product Hunt and various other startup websites like Hackernews and Indie Hackers. I'm also using Quora to genuinely answer questions and where relevant sensitively mention and link to my website. I've achieved this within 3 months, but obviously things are starting to dry up where I naively thought it would gain traction. I don't have any budget for paid advertising. Most of the users currently are obviously testers so my user database of 500 is giving a false reading as you can appreciate. Am I doing the right thing? Does anyone have any good tips and advice on driving genuine users to a website? A friend of mine said you're in a period of your startup known as The Struggle, most people give up about now but it's only those that keep going reap the rewards although it will take a long time. Would love anyone's views and opinions. Thanks everyone. Happy to discuss and answer comments. [link] [comments]  |
| When and how do I approach investors? Posted: 27 Aug 2020 01:12 AM PDT I'm pretty sure this question has been asked a multiple times on this sub, but my situation is a little different. I've been working on a product (as a project) in my engineering school since last 2 years, I'll be graduating next year and I want to continue working on that and build a company around it. The product is very big and the one I've been working on is actually a scaled model(3:1) of the original, it's not possible for me to make a full scale product at the university level as it'll require a lot of people and a lot of money. So how do I approach investors given that I haven't even made a full scale working product?! And when do I approach them? Should I wait till I graduate or it is better to start hunting right now?? You can take the analogy of a rocket as my product, so I've been making small scaled rockets(prototypes) and now I want to start a company building full sized rockets. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| recommend mobile Apps an Entrepreneur must have in his mobile Posted: 26 Aug 2020 09:19 PM PDT Bought new Android. What apps must I install? suggest Apps an Entrepreneur and startup founder MUST HAVE. example: reddit, productHunt, google podcasts. [link] [comments]  |
| Am I able to create this website myself? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 03:28 PM PDT I never created a website or have eperience. All the devs have quoted me at 1k? Equipment rental business RENTAL PROCESS
• Once the date is selected, all inventory that are available appear. • Customer clicks on add to cart under items or can click on the item. • Clicking on the item, leads you to a product information page showcasing the item with its specs. • Customer is also able to add item to cart from the product information page.
• Product overview showing selected items and the total cost. It should show the total quote and deposit fee. • Rental overview showing date/time/location. • Rental agreement policy • Contact Details where customer fills out form. Form entails: name, number, email, comment box and I agree checkbox. • Reserve Now button at the bottom to finalize everything and provide customer with confirmation #.
7. • I call the customer to confirm all details and make sure everything is accurate. • If customer wants to make changes, there should be a way for me to cancel or edit the reservation. [link] [comments]  |
| How to best spend marketing budget? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 08:33 AM PDT Hi everyone, pretty new to marketing in general and I would appreciate any advice. I am exploring click funnels as an option to help acquire customers for my business. Recently I have grown exclusively through outbound sales tactics (my background is almost exclusively in sales) but it is pretty time consuming and I have enough revenue now that I can start (moderately) investing into other channels for customer acquisition. For context, I own a consulting firm and our services would be considered high ticket (minimum $5,000 per month retainer fee). Does anyone have suggestions for me on the best methods to drive traffic to my first funnel -- if it helps give me suggestions, let's set a budget for this month of around $1,000 [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:08 PM PDT Hello! I'm wondering if anyone has ever used an online file storing system, or something that would track shares. For instance, if I am wanting to issue 100 shares, an online system I am looking to find would tell me who has the 100 shares, how much those shares are, how many more shares I could issue etc. I'm not looking to do this manually in an excel. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| What’s your take on a FB advertising approach? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:06 PM PDT My startup (first real one) is at a point where we are just getting started with advertising and looking for traffic. I've done advertising on FB and Google AdWords for other companies before, but I see this as a very different approach, possibly because I'm part of the product development, or due to the nature of a startup. I believe it's the latter. We have spoken to many professionals in the area we aim to serve and all are ecstatic, and we even have 2 large companies wanting to contract us out to rebuild our service to their specific needs. Only problem is that they want us to be exclusive to them, which we refuse to work with. My co-founder and I are able to financially support ourselves and bootstrap indefinitely with freelancing work. In traditional FB ad funnels, we run a reach campaign with a video or graphic, testing it on 3 audiences. Using the lowest CPM audience, we run 3 ads to with no text, the same headlines, but different graphics/videos. We'd continue to test the big 4 variables (audience, copy, title, and media) in a similar fashion. I'm tempted to do that with the startup's home landing page, but I feel like we'd be missing our mark as a startup. I believe we have chosen a problem that has an audience viable to allow us to grow if we introduce our solution in the right way, but thats my problem. I see many ways we can angle our solution (without changing the service/product) to our audience, and I want to test 2-4 of them against each other. I want to run a single ad trying to get people to visit our link, split testing multiple landing pages, each one focused on a different aspect of our business. I'd give each adset in the campaign the same audience and budget. I'd measure 'traction' by comparing which page receives the most 'email signups'. I believe this is the quickest and most effective way for us to prove traction, and find what makes our audience tick. The FB ad funnel I previously mentioned can come after we prove one landing page more effective than the others. What are your thoughts? How have you found to be effective in proving initial traction when you know you've found a problem that is begging for a solution? Do you take the slow and steady approach, or aggressively test ideas to later 'long haul'? [link] [comments]  |
| How do you turn customers to promoters if your company follows product-led growth? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:13 PM PDT |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:55 PM PDT Can anyone relate to not having any hard skills and still achieving some commercial and business success in life at all? I started questioning myself as I'm clearly capable of starting and pulling things off the ground to a degree. But then I'm always just picking up an idea from somewhere and allocating it elsewhere to make a buck. Like a cool new boat rental I saw in one country and launched in another. That sort of thing only [link] [comments]  |
| Advice on buying a Social script for startup Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:03 PM PDT Hello everyone, I need your Advice on buying a Social script for startup I want to start a social community platform like Facebook and building from scratch seems uneasy... What do you think about buying a PHP script on codecaynon and working on them like woo wonder script?.. Is it advisable to use such and what are the likely Advantages and disadvantages please [link] [comments]  |
| How to increase your website traffic with broad audience, without bots? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 05:24 AM PDT I have been looking at ways to attract audience to my website without spamming everywhere. I have entertainment websites were we posts daily 6 times per daily. I wonder if you guys would give me tips on how to bring more people to my site so that they get the content (text jokes, videos, images) they are looking for. Currently the source of traffic is the facebook group linked to the website. Usually when users come to the website they stay between 1.5 to 3 minutes average [link] [comments]  |
| Startup wants me as contractor for 90 days Posted: 26 Aug 2020 10:46 AM PDT Getting close to getting an offer with what seems like my ideal job, at a startup. However, they just asked if I would be willing to be a contractor for 90 days while we both determine if this is a long-term fit. The reasoning behind this was: A) they are running very lean (bootstrapped) and onboarding me to their benefits, etc, would be a massive blow to their company if I were to leave for any reason after coming on. B) The job's workload is unique (I'll admit that) so, they want to make sure I think it is a good long term fit and vice versa. I feel like the spirit of this request is legit, but it still gives me pause, I am worried I may not be considering all the downsides here. One very unique aspect of this (this startup does not know this) is that I can accept a severance package from my current employer with pay + benefits for 6 months, which would cover the risk of going to this startup. But, I would be leaving my job... Anyone been down this road before and seen how this movie ends? [link] [comments]  |
| Crazy to go compete with an established company? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 10:43 AM PDT EDIT: I should have made the title "Crazy to go compete with an established software company?" I have an idea to computer vision track (American) Football and provide analytics. I'm a huge Football fan, so I've always been incredibly interested in the game. When I came up with this idea a few weeks ago, I quickly learned it already exists... and not only that it exists..but fairly big companies do it. Of course it was pretty disappointing to hear. Obviously it would be a very difficult product to make, but it would also be very hard to compete with a company like this part time. I know many disagree but software to me seems like such a winner take all world. Even if I came up with different features, they'd look at it.. go okay? Hmm... cool. and potentially quickly implement those features into their own product with their much larger engineering team. The only potential advantage I could have over a company like that, is the fact that I could offer the product cheaper. But thats about it. Any advance I'd make, they could replicate. Has anyone ever dealt with anything like this? Or anything similar to this? I'm just pretty discouraged because this would be an incredibly cool product to build, but I don't see it being viable with another big player in the space. What do you think? Normally I'd be pretty guarded about ideas like this, but obivously its already out there! lol [link] [comments]  |
| How much of your funding went to Marketing? How did that work out? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 09:43 AM PDT I'm very curious about the different approaches to startup marketing/promotion and thought it might be interesting to hear what people have tried/been a part of. I'm also curious to see if any particularindustries have trends in how they spend. For starters, I worked at a video-communications startup in NYC back in 2013, and I believe roughly 1/10 of the Series A went to marketing, perhaps more via the "paid beta testing" incentive project that might have not been from marketing [link] [comments]  |
| General Liability Insurance. Where to get it? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 05:35 AM PDT I have a brand new startup with 1 employee. I need to sign a contract that requires me to have General Liability Insurance. Any idea where I can get general liability insurance? I've been having trouble finding places to cover the company, but I suspect I'm looking in the wrong place. [link] [comments]  |
| How to setup analytics early in the game? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 06:12 AM PDT My startup's APP is almost ready. So is the website , the Newsletter Template and Instagram account with first couple thousand fans. Apart from Instagram, that gives me stats, I need to start setting up Analytics for the rest and I have no clue how to do it. Watching Y Combinator videos, I learnt how important analytics is for you to have control over user access, retention, CAC, etc. There they also say not to rely only on google analytics, but use tools like Mix Panel and Amplitude (obviously they recommend their own tools). How did you guys tackled this issue? Hired a freelancer marketeer or did it yourselves? Should I pay someone to integrate it all or invest my time in learning this? [link] [comments]  |
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