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 can one be the best CEO possible?
- What do you develop/ developing during COVID-19?
- Has anyone previously launched with a private beta and then public beta? What did you learn and what would you do differently?
- Can someone direct me toward where I need to go next after building in mvp stage? (for pre-launch of beta version) or, basically when do you know you're ready to start displaying your product to the world in a pre-launch campaign?
- Making a Marketing Blueprint on a low budget
- Business name HELP
- Just go and make SAAS / Cloud Computing startups, I give up
- Financial related: what's this things i want to do actually called in the financial / investor world? I need guidance so I can Google and teach myself. But I'm stuck.
- CMO vs Head Of Growth - Which job title is more “legit”?
- I have been asked to do a full Marketing plan as part of a job interview.. is this normal?
- What are some of your go to market testing/research/analysis ideas before building new software? General Startup Discussion
- Instagram location based posts
- Help with a 'startup ideas' newsletter
- How to start an Alcoholic drink brand?��
- Just Started A Blog
- Ethical advertising, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the pitch
- [England, UK] - Is now a good time to join a printing & marketing franchise?
| Wednesday Social Club - Share What Events You Are Attending This Coming Week Posted: 23 Sep 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 can one be the best CEO possible? Posted: 23 Sep 2020 09:52 AM PDT How to be a good CEO? Podcast, books, videos, personal advice. Even a mentor would be nice. The more information the better please! I was recently hired as CEO of a fledgling medical marijuana facility id like to think I know what I'm doing but I've never done this. [link] [comments]  |
| What do you develop/ developing during COVID-19? Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:02 AM PDT Since the pandemic, we have noticed some global change in the software industry as well as others, and many entrepreneurs come up with an idea, and it indeed impacts massively. So, what you are building, or what the new problem statement you have found, regardless it is because of COVID or not. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2020 11:12 PM PDT I'm starting to build an MVP and will then create a private beta, followed by a public beta if it is successful. Naturally it's both daunting and exciting. I'm looking for lessons from people who've done it before. Some questions I have
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2020 05:45 PM PDT Hello, I'm a 18 year old entrepreneur and I built my virtual platform's MVP from scratch. I'm pretty inexperienced so please bare with me :) As I near the end of the development process, I've begun thinking of what comes next in terms of how to launch it and well... I'm a bit clueless. I'm really not sure at all how to go on about this. I was thinking of doing the pre-launch campaign for 2-3 months though as I said I'm not too clear on how to go on about launch/where to look for what to do. My goal is to get 10,000 users signed up at least after launch (that's the limit I've set for how many spaces I have available) My plan was within those months would be to do as much as I can to get exposure for the coming soon platform... and then open it after (though allowing sign-ups before). But is that really it? It seems bland just to go and advertise it... I feel I'm missing something but not sure what. I have seen how some startups get going and it seems they really document the development process before launch (updates on dev. and so on), and that's also something I'm mixed up on. Before I even have an usable product ready, should I begin getting it around? I was thinking I shouldn't begin going around until I have a very set product (as in, no huge updates to make). Should I perhaps, before I am completely done with the platform, start marketing it to get the name buzzing around a bit? TLDWR Basically when do you know you're ready to start displaying your product to the world prior to officially launching it? Should it be when you have a very set product? Or when you have the basic structure down, with updates on extra features being added until the launch date? [link] [comments]  |
| Making a Marketing Blueprint on a low budget Posted: 24 Sep 2020 01:33 AM PDT I am currently working in a start-up which will provide self personality/SWOT analysis of a person. I need to carve out a marketing blueprint for the same. Can you guys help me out with some ideas of some free- low budget ideas to reach out the market. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 24 Sep 2020 01:01 AM PDT I am writing my business plan (in my specialty it's called a Program Design) to be vendored in California as an agency that provides Supported Living Services for adults with developmental disabilities and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders. The purpose of Supported Living Services are based on 5 Principles below: Individuals live in homes that they own, lease or rent like other members of their community. They choose where they live and with whom, and they control what happens in their home. Individuals are secure in their homes and do not have to move if their needs, their services or their service agency changes. Individuals are safe in their home and neighborhood. An Individual makes his or her own everyday choices. Individuals plan for their futures. They direct the services they receive and have a choice of agencies and staff. Individuals are supported (e.g. technology, communication devices, behavioral support) to communicate their preferences, choices and needs. Individuals are satisfied with the services they receive. An individual has family, friends and neighbors who support him or her in regular ways or as paid help. The individual and his or her circle of support work together as a team with the supported living agency and others to share responsibility for his or her well-being. An Individual fully participates in the mainstream of community life. Individuals have opportunities to join clubs, groups, and churches. Individuals use local community resources and generic services. An Individual has a service plan, which is developed through a person-centered planning process. The plan reflects the support that the individual wants and needs. Services are provided in the person's home and community at times when they are preferred. Services offer the individual opportunities to increase competence, confidence and quality of life. I am a sister to an adult with Developmental disabilities, a mother to a neurodiverse 7 year old and am very passionate in my role. I have a diplomatic personality and strive for teamwork mentality. My name needs to start with either A or B, reflect teamwork, commitment, innovation, individuality, and communication I love names like: Ability Collective Ability Collaborative Aspire Collective Aspire Collaborative Ahead Collective Ahead Collaborative B. Collective B. Collaborative AIR= Aspire Inclusion Relationship AIR Collective AIR Collaborative AIR Group Etc PLEASE offer up advice, ideas, and if any of those names stick out to you. Thank you [link] [comments]  |
| Just go and make SAAS / Cloud Computing startups, I give up Posted: 24 Sep 2020 01:00 AM PDT |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2020 06:48 PM PDT Financial related. Looking for advice on what this might be classified as so I can then do proper research to find the right financial and legal people and mentors to help me. There are two parts to my business. One continuous sales cycle product type. Typical b2b things. Typical cycles. Room for growth, and upselling, didn't related products, and subscriptions packages with those products etc. But the second part of my business involves much larger projects. They would be running continuously, but each project start is staggered from the next. Each one is very long term, a completely different beast, and the sales process is very long (years) and highly beuracratic involving super complex contracts with dozens of key players. Negotiations, and more. We can kinda prep to eventually do lower level contracts (under 100k setup costs), but the return on the low level stuff isn't worthwhile. We can't even begin to do any decent return projects until we have a minimum of 350k for our infrastructure / set up for these long haul beasts, and most excellent ones we want to be at way down the line will cost us infrastructure costs and setup upwards of a few million (all in, including salarys, everything necessary without me inflating numbers etc). Note I'm not doing anything new here. This is all typical for my industry. The first side of the day to day operations, of the typical products/sales process, is essentially funding the second one. This keeps the lights on and the doors open. It gets us up in the morning. We are, just starting anyways and nowhere near amassing enough. So, I want to boost this second side with funding. Huge returns if we do it right. Ideally i want a pool of investors that get something akin to dividends, if we make money on those projects they do. But not equity. Or am I calling it the wrong thing. The more I collect the more diversified we can be in those huge arenas. We can't promise we will succeed though either. But we really don't want to do equity shares or convertible notes etc, these people will be funding projects not giving money to the company for equity or shares or seats. We aren't doing another round, we are doing continuous fund collections for this and we hope our success and results gain additional investors. What other financial instruments are there? Am i overlooking things? Are we really just collecting money, creating a pool and contracts for each person dictating risk? Are we opening ourselves as a mutual fund kinda things and need to be beholden to those financial regulatory thing and I'm just calling it something else? Are they just gifts with odd contracts? I'm really lost at what to call this and where it all fits in in the financial world? I'm looking for investors. But it doesn't feel like an angel or vc related type, maybe a growth thing, but it's not perfectly related to the first so it's not actually growth of anything. But it's not a seed round and the project costs are well above family and friends levels at well over 150k. Anyways I'm starting to give all sorts of examples, but instead let me see what you all have for pointing me in the right direction. Or asking clarifying questions. I need to learn what this is called so i can set it up right with the right legal people and financial folks and then prospect for the right people. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| CMO vs Head Of Growth - Which job title is more “legit”? Posted: 23 Sep 2020 09:36 PM PDT I've been offered my dream job to lead all things marketing at a rapidly growing startup that I'm passionate about. I'm the first marketing hire but will also have a hand in the general strategy of the company (product expansion, inventory management, etc) so the founders said that I can choose my own title. I know "Head Of Growth" roles have become more common in the past few years but does it carry as much weight as a Chief Marketing Officer title? I don't usually care about such things but I want to maximize my personal brand as much as possible (booking podcasts, speaking engagements, etc) TL:DR — Which job role carries more prestige in general: Chief Marketing Officer or Head Of Growth? [link] [comments]  |
| I have been asked to do a full Marketing plan as part of a job interview.. is this normal? Posted: 23 Sep 2020 12:42 PM PDT This is a former startup who has now been acquired by a retail giant, but they are still keeping the old brand and want to expand it I have passed already 3 rounds of interviews with this company and now that I have asked me to present a marketing plan for the company's expansion to a new country (which is basically the role they are hiring for). They asked for the full value proposition, buyer persona, marketing mix..the plan should be a 12 months plan as well!! I feel this is too much and what if they do not hire me? Then they can take my ideas for free and use them. Is this normal? I have been asked to do presentations in the past as parts of the hiring process but not a whole plan for the company. I want this job but I am now thinking to withdraw my application and look for something else because I do not think that what they are asking is fair. Has anyone got an opinion on this? Is it ok for them to request this? Is this common practice? Thank you!! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2020 09:19 AM PDT I've always struggled with getting past the "gate keepers" when trying to call businesses and perform market research. Even if you tell these people that you are NOT here to sell them anything, but just looking to take a quick poll, they don't have a reason to help you and most will let you know exactly that. I'm curious 1) what are some good ways that startups get around this and 2) what are other great options for surveying a market about their current industry solutions? To add some color, some of the things I need to figure out are: - What their current software is - What are their most and least used features of that software - Are there any features they wished the software had - What are their biggest business challenges - What other software(s) they are using on a daily basis that could integrate with a new product to make their day easier Curious to hear from software entrepreneurs what some of your working strategies are here. [link] [comments]  |
| Instagram location based posts Posted: 23 Sep 2020 06:32 AM PDT I started an Instagram page focused on lifestyle (clothing, automobile, travelling places,etc). So far so good I am getting good engagement and traffic. I am building Instagram for side hustle currently. My question is. Currently I don't target a specific country and I have followers from different countries. In future if brands were to approach me. I wouldn't have much to offer since my followers are from different places unless the company does worldwide shipping. So should I focus on the location but it will change my content and may reduce the numbers I am getting. But if I follow my current method I might not have many brands to work with or is it just my assumption. What's should I do? [link] [comments]  |
| Help with a 'startup ideas' newsletter Posted: 23 Sep 2020 11:16 AM PDT Hey guys, I've always been on the hunt for startup ideas. I can't seem to get enough. One great source for me has been a podcast from The Hustle called My First Million (Sam Parr and Shaan started it together). The episodes are rich but very long so I decided to start a newsletter where I summarize all the startup ideas with timestamps and links for everyone. Kinda like cliff notes but for podcasts. That way people can enjoy the pod and know that I'm taking care of the note taking for them. The problem I have now is expanding my audience and how to do that? I plan on changing each letter to include other startup ideas sources besides just My First Million and maybe offer some commentary on why each idea may be good or bad (my background is taking over a family business and growing it from 6 figures to 8 figures and recently got acquired in 2019). I also think I want to niche down to "lifestyle" or digital business ideas that can be bootstrapped as opposed to venture backed startups. Can anyone here help me with other podcast or sources of ideas for startups geared to the bootstrapping? THANKS! [link] [comments]  |
| How to start an Alcoholic drink brand?�� Posted: 23 Sep 2020 03:39 AM PDT Hello StartUp community, Does anybody have any advice/information on how to start your own Alcoholic drink brand? Preferably for starting it in the UK. Is there a way for someone else like a distillery to make it for you instead of doing it at home? Cheers [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 23 Sep 2020 10:23 AM PDT Hello everyone, I started a news blog for a niche community of a niece community. At first, I thought content curation would be a viable idea but it wouldn't help me to tangibly reach any of my goals. The general problems I'm running into now as a content creation blog are encouraging new visits and maintaining activity for those who are already familiar with it. The policy to solve this would be branching out to do articles that appeal to the target community's interest. However, it's been really hard for me to grasp copywriting. And due to not having any kind of budget, learning the skill through sites like Udemy isn't an option. Should I look towards partnering with an established blogger to figure something out? If so, what should be my approach? [link] [comments]  |
| Ethical advertising, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the pitch Posted: 23 Sep 2020 09:17 AM PDT I'm slightly scared right now, not in my comfort zone. And I don't want to make an introduction that will bore you guys down the drain. So I'll just start writing, and maybe you guys will figure out what I'm up to. Advertising mistake #1. Try to advertise without a neutral understanding of what it means to advertise. I've done this one before. In 2019, I started a startup for coders. The thing I wanted was to make debugging less of an unpleasant task, because I hated debugging. Threat to my own sanity, etc. Long story short, when it came to advertising my minimum viable product, I just didn't feel passionate about it. Passion, the ugly, asymmetric word that it is, matters to me because I want to create something of lasting value for you all. If I'm not passionate and truly enjoying what I do, I'm gonna want to do a quick and dirty job - it seems intuitive that passion should be necessary if quality's what you want. Back to the main thread. pretends to clear throat The question that nags me is, why did I not feel passionate when it came to advertising? I'll admit I haven't put much thought into it until now, but I think I've got an answer. As the title suggests, the reason here is that my advertising attempts felt dishonest. A lot of you have probably heard it said (in some form or another) that advertising-wise, we're in the age of the skeptic. I had read, seen and heard a lot of manipulative, dishonest tactics touted as effective by that point, and not a whole lot of effective ways to advertise honestly and transparently. My newbie advertiser mind was in the gutter. Unable to shake off the feeling that my sales pitches were duping customers, my motivation to advertise fell into a sharp decline. I eventually ran out of money and suspended the startup. I'm not giving up on it yet, though, because I feel like those startup insights have got some potential. All of this to say that in the past year, I've been working really hard to become an advertiser worthy of my future startup. I'm cooking some theories about how to advertise ethically and succeed, and I feel like Reddit could be my soapbox. (Thanks for the chance, Reddit. Promise not to let you down.) Here's what went wrong in 2019: I kinda felt like the point of effective advertising was to lie or deceive - to dishonestly spread the word about a product or service. A very "ends justify the means" sort of thing. I've noticed that after my definition for advertising changed, I've started to feel a lot more excited about advertising in general. Maybe there's some power in what we think our words mean. Here's my new definition, though perhaps it's not as precise as it could be. "Advertising is the art of motivating people to do what you want them to." The definition reflects a belief about tools. Broadly speaking, I suspect that tools like money, guns and my grandma's wig can be used for good and evil, depending on the user. I see advertising as a tool too, so a neutral definition suits me best. It's done wonders for my motivation as an advertiser … or to sum it up nicely: My passion is back, because I don't have to suck. [link] [comments]  |
| [England, UK] - Is now a good time to join a printing & marketing franchise? Posted: 23 Sep 2020 07:30 AM PDT I have an opportunity to join a franchise that provides printing, marketing and promotional product goods as a Business to Business service. I've done my due diligence with the franchisor themselves, but the current concern rattling around in my head is whether now is the right time to jump in. On one hand, there is general support and schemes available, sales within the franchisees stores are apparently bouncing back, and of course, businesses won't stop printing/marketing because of Covid. Such business may be more towards Covid related printing and products now. On the other hand, the Covid situation seems to be going backwards, many articles about the effects of Covid on businesses (costs, staff losses, etc.) are of course concerning, and I do wonder if the potential market could become smaller with the amount of things that have moved online now. I'm really mixed on whether I should just jump in and get on with it, or whether I should hold back and see how Covid pans out first. There are ups and downs to each way in my eyes. Any kind of pointers, or maybe your own experiences, will be helpful. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
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