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
- I am from a developing country with low labour rates (even skilled labour). I am interested in starting a Business process outsourcing business or a online business where professionals provide services through internet. Can someone give me some idea how to start this?
- What's a great course/resource to learn the necessary math & financial knowledge to run a startup?
- Getting media coverage for your startup
- Entrepreneurial / How to startup courses
- How does a company create a deal with an influencer?
- How to express yourself ��
- Business is complex (basketball), not complicated (football)
- Creating a Product - A to Z
- Any others in the Industrial Automation Industry?
- Beginning programmer with an idea for a startup looking for resources books/videos/lectures that will help me learn more about the business side.
- Automating annoying stuff in your life with integrations
- ¿How much commission should my Saas charge?
- Things you can do right now for your startup
- You don’t need a big product launch, it will most likely lead to failure anyway (crosspost from /r/entrepreneur)
- Selling a company/SaaS with 1 customer?
- Why haven't you migrated to value-based pricing (service startups)
- Validation Doldrums - when to get the oars out and push forward?
- Starting up an LLC
- How do you manage remote teams with different time zones?
| Posted: 07 Sep 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]  |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2020 10:34 PM PDT I want to know how to find clients, what resources i have to find etc. This is just a preliminary idea, I have done some research and still collecting information. I can find some investments, and employees. I am also hoping to consult some industry expert if I feel that this is a viable project. Appreciate your help. [link] [comments]  |
| What's a great course/resource to learn the necessary math & financial knowledge to run a startup? Posted: 08 Sep 2020 03:09 AM PDT Hey guys, Is there anything you can recommend? Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Getting media coverage for your startup Posted: 08 Sep 2020 03:54 AM PDT This conference looks really cool and could help you learn how to get press for your startup. Speakers include experienced startup founders and journalists who used to work at Fortune and Adweek. [link] [comments]  |
| Entrepreneurial / How to startup courses Posted: 07 Sep 2020 10:37 AM PDT Hello! What are some of the best compiled courses/resources online to get complete knowledge on how to start a company or on entrepreneurship development. I have an idea for a product and know how I would want to execute it, but I desperately feel the need to learn the process so that I can implement my decisions and execute them in the most efficient manner without making glaring mistakes. Would love it if someone could share some course Playlist or anything of the sort - a guide to startups. Thanks a million! P.S : Does anyone have any kind of checklist or things to do for a startup right from idea to fully fledged business? Update: Thank you all so much for your responses. YC seems to be the most popular so I'm going to go ahead and try that out. :) [link] [comments]  |
| How does a company create a deal with an influencer? Posted: 07 Sep 2020 04:58 PM PDT Just wondering if you're an influencer, say like Charli D'amelio, who has 85M + followers on TikTok alone. How would a company approach her in terms of a sponsorship deal? I can imagine it's dissecting her followership by age group, gender, the most liked content but what other categories would a company take into consideration both in terms of how much money / stake to offer and if this influencer will be able to sell their product / service ? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2020 11:01 PM PDT Do you struggle with expressing yourself in front of people? Are you afraid of saying the wrong things and making mistake while speaking? Have you noticed yourself sometimes that you want to say something but couldn't say it? I know it happens with a lot of people. It's embarrassing and annoying when you can't say what you want to say. But, have you ever thought about why do you struggle with that? Just the other day I was talking with one of my clients and we were doing some exercise together. She was speaking something and suddenly she stopped and said: "oh, it's not funny". I said "how do you know if it's funny or not?" you didn't even finish your sentence yet. Did you notice something? It's self-judgement which stops you from expressing yourself. It's YOU who is holding yourself back by judging yourself. No one is perfect and no one says the right thing, at the time, and at the right place every time. Beware, Trying to be perfect and saying the right things all the time can stop you from saying anything AT ALL. If you want to be a good speaker, memorise words, use scripts and prepared lines. But if you want to be an amazing speaker, be authentic and don't judge yourself. Share your thoughts and ideas like it MATTERS and believe that whatever you have to say is valuable. Thanks for reading. What are your biggest challenges when it comes to speaking in front of people? [link] [comments]  |
| Business is complex (basketball), not complicated (football) Posted: 08 Sep 2020 03:38 AM PDT Author and former director of the World Bank, Steve Denning, interviewed 2017's world's #1 management thinker, Roger Martin, about his new book: When More is Not Better. It's a fascinating article, with two longtime mainstream management thinkers going back and forth about how the discipline has evolved from "maximizing shareholder value" (what Martin calls "the dumbest idea in the world" in his 2012 book: Fixing the Game) to managing holons of complex adaptive systems inside of complex adaptive systems. In its simplest form, the craft of management is now being recognized by its leaders as having moved from football to basketball. From complicated to complex. From Brave New Work, by Aaron Dignan: "Contrary to popular opinion, among people who study systems theory, "complicated" and "complex" are distinct words with precise meanings. The engine inside a car is complicated. A complicated system is a causal system—meaning it is subject to cause and effect. Although it may have many parts, they will interact with one another in highly predictable ways. Problems with complicated systems have solutions. This means that, within reason, a complicated system can be fixed with a high degree of confidence. It can be controlled. This is not to say that a complicated system can't be confusing or inaccessible to the layperson. Quite the contrary. Understanding a complicated system, such as an engine or a 3-D printer, requires specialized expertise and experience. Here, experts can detect patterns and provide solutions based on established good practice. This is the domain of the mechanic, the watchmaker, the air traffic controller, the architect, and the engineer. Traffic, on the other hand, is complex. A complex system is not causal, it's dispositional. We can make informed guesses about what it is likely to do (its disposition), but we can't be sure. We can make predictions about the weather, but we cannot control it. Unlike complicated problems, complex problems cannot be solved, only managed. They cannot be controlled, only nudged. This is the domain of the butterfly effect, where a small change can lead to something big, and a big change might barely make a dent. Here expertise can be a disadvantage if it becomes dogma or blinds us to the inherent uncertainty present in our situation." About time. Business has never been complicated, despite decades of management theory trying to make it so. This book is important because once HBR talks about it, Fortune 500 businesses listen. The mainstream is recognizing what the edge has used as their competitive advantage for years: that business is complex, and the best way to manage that is highly engaged, empowered, and aligned people. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2020 03:38 PM PDT How do I start creating a product? I know obviously you need a design, 3d mockup, engineer for the tech, design for the packaging, instruction manual, etc. What else is needed? How do I go about finding a good reliable manufacturer? What about building the first prototype? Is there a guide or any resource to see A to Z what is needed? Don't want to forget anything and want to be able to do it alone or cheap. Thanks for your help in advance. [link] [comments]  |
| Any others in the Industrial Automation Industry? Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:04 PM PDT Im considering starting an industry automation integration company. Would love advice! My background: I've got a great deal of experience in PID controls and logic for high precision hydraulics. My background is in electrical engineering but I've done a bit of sales as well. What I'm looking for: I'd love to find others to compliment my skill set and help start a successful automation integration company. Sales, mechanical/hydraulic engineering, electricians, really anyone willing to work hard and can bring a new skill set to the party. I've got a fair number of contacts in the industry and have been considering venturing out on my own but would like to make the jump with others to provide a more holistic service from the get-go. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2020 02:08 PM PDT I believe my idea falls under 'SaaS' but id like to learn more about the various business models. Also interested in tech books for entrepreneurs if you know of any as I have just learned to code and still don't know much about deploying to web servers or how to manage large projects etc. I'm just now learning Django web framework for python. [link] [comments]  |
| Automating annoying stuff in your life with integrations Posted: 07 Sep 2020 11:46 AM PDT No app does it all - but luckily for us non-tech people, you can tie apps together and end up with truly useful automations. The four platforms I've been able to find that help tie stuff together are:
I didn't really test IFTTT (Which stands for If This Then That) - as I don't own much smart home stuff, but it seems like they have a series of pre-built recipes to tie your smart home hardware together. But the two main ones are Zapier and Integromat. These things are crazy. As an example, let's say I run a blog, and I use Webflow/WordPress to host it. Let's say I often don't have access to my laptop, but the submission process for my blog articles on Webflow/WordPress only works on desktop. With a tool like Zapier, I could connect something more mobile-friendly like Google Forms to my Webflow/WordPress site, and actually write and submit my blog articles from Google Forms. Then, let's say I have a newsletter on Mailchimp that I use to notify my audience when I post a new blog article. Usually, I fill in a template and copy-paste the summary info from the blog article into the email, and schedule it for the upcoming Monday. However, with that same Google Form, I could have a series of inputs that cover all the information needed in the newsletter, then send it out directly after I submit the form. My whole blog/newsletter process has now been compressed into one single form that I don't even need my laptop to use. That's a super basic example, but it shows how powerful these tools can be. I eventually want to get to the point where I can create fully functional products out of a subset of smaller apps. Another common use case is connected databases to front ends. So, for instance, if I had a google sheet with data I wanted to display on my website, I could do that through Zapier. Connect Google Sheet data to Webflow or Wix collection items, and it's done. The updates won't be completely live, but they'll be close. I would love to hear more use cases for this - obviously, mine are relatively simple - any ideas? Any stories you've heard? Also, I wrote this based on a live stream I did, where we messed around with all the above tools - let me know if you wanna see the highlights. :) [link] [comments]  |
| ¿How much commission should my Saas charge? Posted: 07 Sep 2020 11:00 AM PDT I'm finishing the development of an app, where we will just be an intermediary between people who want to rent something and someone that has that specific item, like Airbnb, ¿is there an standard for the % of commission that we take or it depends on the niche? [link] [comments]  |
| Things you can do right now for your startup Posted: 07 Sep 2020 02:25 AM PDT Interested to know what your top repeatable startup tasks are that you can do now. Things that aren't dependant on the next release, the new feature or for something else to deliver. If someone told you they had nothing to do, what would the number one thing be? Example; I cant put that advert out yet as we are still waiting for the new feature to be available so we have nothing to do. Ideas;
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| Posted: 07 Sep 2020 11:52 AM PDT Why does a big product launch almost always mean a failed product in tech, think products like:
Then we have the biggest tech products and they never had a launch:
Here is why you should never invest in a big launch. If the product is bad it is a waste of money, if the product is great they will find the product anyway. Great products release early, listen to their users, and improve. You can't do that if you do a big launch. A big launch means a finished product. A tech product is never "finished" on the first launch. Am I wrong? Give me examples that prove the opposite? [link] [comments]  |
| Selling a company/SaaS with 1 customer? Posted: 07 Sep 2020 11:48 AM PDT Hi all, I have spent the past two years developing my company, a live streaming youth sports company. I have spent over $60,000 developing the site (hired developers). Our company/product is 100% scalable, able to handle literally thousands of live streams and millions of viewers at once. We offer a unique business model, one that can work well given economy of scale. Ads, PPV, and digital downloads. We have partnered and integrations with major companies in our space, we have an email list of over 10,000 emails, Facebook and Twitter accounts. We have an iOS app. Our site is built on AWS, and has live streaming for pennies a minute. Problem is, I've learned I am a builder (an excellent project manager), not a marketer/CEO. We have 1 active customer (given we're in IL and IL has banned sports for the fall). However, we have over 250 events broadcasted on our site, and have had a few customers in the past. I am looking to sell the company or do something with it, to at least make some of my money back on it. COVID has been rough, and need the cash and don't have the time to "wait for it to take off". I've posted it to flippa, have a few watchers, but no bites. Any advice is appreciated. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Why haven't you migrated to value-based pricing (service startups) Posted: 07 Sep 2020 03:11 PM PDT I have studied, learned, and slowly applied the concept of value-based pricing. With it, you set prices based on the perceived or estimated value of a product or service. This means that the cost of the product or market trend doesn't play a role when pricing. It's interesting when applied. Wonderful when you charge through it. Airplane tickets are a great example of this. Date, seat, and season affect the price even though you are going from A to B. The interesting thing is that I don't see many service businesses using this pricing model. It can be a local business or Walmart and they still charge by the hour. What's your pricing model and why? [link] [comments]  |
| Validation Doldrums - when to get the oars out and push forward? Posted: 07 Sep 2020 02:04 PM PDT I'm currently working through the validation phase for a hardware product. I'm trying to find the balance between an appropriate amount of data with which to determine the idea is 'validated' and moving quickly enough to maintain our momentum and edge. From what I've gathered, there will never be a time where we feel 'comfortable' moving forward; there's always risk in a startup. I find this to be especially true in creating a hardware product, as there is far more required in terms of resources up-front than a software product. What I'm wondering is, what have you all used to determine when you should move forward? Gut? Data (how much)? Customers willing to buy (how many)? So far we have been using renderings to market through Facebook/Instagram, as well as conducting customer interviews and surveys (trying to extend beyond the friends and family circle). There is definitely interest and a market, although to what degree I'm not sure we could figure out without putting more funds into expanding our operation ($$$). I feel that we could of course validate further, but am most concerned with losing that momentum. Should we keep validation to just enough to check the box and move forward, assuming a level of risk on the funds we invest (bootstrapping at this point)? Or is that irresponsible? I believe we can make it happen, and am fine assuming risk, but I want to make sure we approach this methodically, not haphazardly. Thanks for any advice! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2020 08:15 AM PDT Hello! Some friends and I are working on developing our first board game, and would like to know just some general advice/tips/guidance that would help us through the process of obtaining a copyright, setting up an LLC, and making sure that we can see our game out in stores as soon as possible. Any and all words of wisdom are welcome! [link] [comments]  |
| How do you manage remote teams with different time zones? Posted: 07 Sep 2020 05:24 AM PDT Since lockdown, we've moved to remote working. Despite being a bit skeptical in the beginning, I should admit that I'm sold to it, so far. But the team is growing and almost everyone is located in a different place, from the US to Europe. Does anyone have good insights on best practices when managing a team working in different time zones? [link] [comments]  |
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