Startups Tuesday Operational Roundtable - A Forum to Ask About Legal, Accounting, Project Management, or How to Get Started |
- Tuesday Operational Roundtable - A Forum to Ask About Legal, Accounting, Project Management, or How to Get Started
- Looking for problems to solve in low-tech industries
- Mental health is a growing area of concern, what measures are companies taking to protect the mental health of their staff?
- What to learn to break into healthtech?
- In order to get out of mediocrity, you need to take moonshot bets.
- Marketing tips for online business
- Best way to share my free B2B lead generation tool?
- Any pre-seed startup that successfully raised money using the crowdfunding platform?
- Tech startups who have hired digital marketers/growth managers, what is a good assignment to give them first that can keep them occupied and immediately adding value?
- How should I go about getting investment for BTC ATMs? I could find investors but don't know how much equity in a brand new company I should give up for startup capital?
- How do you recruit participants for qualitative feedback?
- Best softwares for growing boostraping SaaS Startup (Email, CRM, Email Marketing, etc.)
- How can I validate my service idea/how do I create a MVP for a service?
- Advice Needed - Finding partners for referral opportunities?
- Roughly 2 Mo away from SAAS launching... Landing Page template??
- Advice please – where to look for a CTO
- What are the best desktop PPC marketing options?
- PRD Template for SAAS
- Younger me would have; older me doesn’t want to do it alone
- Can I prove ownership if cofounder leaves
- Finding a job in a startup as tech. professional
- Business idea: youtuber merch abroad
- Seeking free/low cost Digital Marketing help for someone with a business consulting blog?
- Serials and authentication methods?
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 06:05 AM PDT Welcome to this week's Operational Roundtable Thread. Ask about anything related to legal, accounting, project management, or how to get started. Don't be shy. The purpose of this is to learn and share ideas and methodologies with one another. Any question is a good question! If you are answering questions, remember to be kind and supportive. Many are just starting out and have no idea what they are doing. That's okay! We all knew nothing before we knew something. You can also find more support using instant chat on the /r/startups discord. [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for problems to solve in low-tech industries Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:02 PM PDT I'm looking to find problems that can be solved with tech in traditionally low-tech industries and was curious if anyone has pointers where to look? I have experience in building startups and in XR, Drones, small robotics, and IoT, however, I'm in the uncommon circumstance of having the technical and business background but lacking a problem worth solving. So far the things I've come up with have all already been done, and done well. Here are a few examples of the types of issues I'm looking to solve (these all already exist).
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| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 06:20 AM PDT I run two companies - one is bricks and mortar and one is software. I've been thinking about this for a while now, and would like to know what other businesses do. As mental health is a growing area of concern, what measures are companies taking to protect the mental health of their staff? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| What to learn to break into healthtech? Posted: 07 Oct 2020 12:29 AM PDT Hey guys! I'm an aspiring physician who is hoping on attending medical school in the coming years but I also have a deep passion for technology and innovation. I really want to work on startups after medical school while also working as a physician in a clinic. I was wondering if anyone else also has the same aspirations or is at that stage right now. What type of hard/technical skills would you say helped you the most? Are there particular programming languages or tech stacks that most healthtech companies use? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| In order to get out of mediocrity, you need to take moonshot bets. Posted: 07 Oct 2020 02:35 AM PDT Startups are often seen by outsides/investors as moonshot bets, which by definition fails most of the time. Being an entrepreneur, working on an idea that are not mainstream yet takes alot of conviction, capital, laser focus execution and the ability to persuade prospective staffs, clients and investors to take a chance on you. What are some tips an entrepreneur can use to overcome this issue? [link] [comments]  |
| Marketing tips for online business Posted: 07 Oct 2020 12:27 AM PDT Hello everyone. I have recently started my startup where I sell dry food items, food ingredients, and a few other treats. I want to grow my business more. What are the best marketing tips you guys could give me to grow better? Thank you. (It is in Bangladesh) [link] [comments]  |
| Best way to share my free B2B lead generation tool? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 08:36 PM PDT Long story short, I had trouble finding custom boxes and packing materials for a small glass whiteboard company, so I created a B2B platform focused on generating quotes quickly and efficiently for the packing and corrugated box industry. It started as a little side project, and then it grew. I've talked with many small to medium sized manufacturers excited to sign up and use the tool. Just this week I've been getting quote requests coming through and passing them along to manufacturers and distributors. I'd like to share the tool with as many as I can but since it's really just a labor of love right now I don't have a huge budget. What's the best way to keep growing this tool organically? [link] [comments]  |
| Any pre-seed startup that successfully raised money using the crowdfunding platform? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 10:07 AM PDT Hey guys, I am about to launch a crowdfunding campaign and try to raise money for my startup. Because I am in the pre-seed stage, and I would love to see several success stories if any that might help me to realize what I really need to succeed and even try to contact founders and ask them for tips. It will be an equity type of campaign. Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 08:06 AM PDT I'm a CEO & Founder with little experience running a business, not least digital marketing. I have no idea what I'd even put a digital marketer on first that would ease my mind about making the most of them and making sure they are not just coasting along without effort collecting a paycheck. Should I get them to lay out their plan of attack initially and come to me with some well-formed marketing strategy? Or perhaps I should be testing the water first e.g. trying out influencers etc. before actually hiring a marketer. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 04:22 PM PDT Currently my idea is to purchase 1 BTC atm and stock it up. I don't need licensing in my country and demand is good while competition is low. But through my crypto connections, I could probably find investors to give me money for 5-10 ATMs upfront. If it was just me and 1 atm, then I wouldn't even bother registering a company. This is not in the US, but a 3rd world country. But if I wanted to get investment, I'd need to probably form a company and give an equity share. I have no experience running a company whatsoever, my only experience is crypto investing. How should I go about this? I thought at first maybe 25-50% but then realized many on Reddit say that's insane. I thought about this as multiple people already offered to invest when I mentioned I'd like to buy my own BTC atm, so finding investors wouldn't be the hard part. But unlike many here, it'd be a brand new company. So it would be essentially without a value. [link] [comments]  |
| How do you recruit participants for qualitative feedback? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 04:04 PM PDT We just launched our prototype to the world couple weeks ago and have been running email outreach, ppc, content marketing, etc. to get some traffic. Our traffic still isn't high enough for us to be making confident decisions about whether to persevere or pivot. The thing that seems missing is getting an understanding of why someone isn't signing up, or why they aren't willing to use our search feature, etc. I've been reaching out to our churned users to ask for a quick 30 minute interview call but haven't gotten anything out of it. Do y'all have any tried and tested strategies for trying to recruit participants in your target market for a qualitative feedback session? [link] [comments]  |
| Best softwares for growing boostraping SaaS Startup (Email, CRM, Email Marketing, etc.) Posted: 06 Oct 2020 09:10 AM PDT Hi everyone, I am currently developping my own SaaS startup and need help finding the right software at the right price for our growth. Email Service I used to have my own email server hosted on google cloud (in my opinion that's the best but can be a pain in the ass to manage without an IT team...), now I moved to zoho but I hate it. Do you have any email service that can handle growth at a good price? CRM / Email Marketing We are starting to cold email a lot of comapnies (1k-10k) and we would like to have to be able to send our emails, keep track of the status of our leads and maybe have some automation (create task to follow-up, send follow up email). We found AgileCRM, looks nice but don't know if it works well. We are also starting to build our audience / users and want to interact with them through email marketing. We would like to have our contacts in our CRM and have everything connected. Do you have any suggestions? [link] [comments]  |
| How can I validate my service idea/how do I create a MVP for a service? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 11:00 AM PDT Hi all, Can I pick your brains and ask - how do I create MVP for a demolition business? I am from a completely different industry but believe there may be an opportunity that others have passed. I have very little money of my own to invest and ideally would like to attract investors to kick start things. How can I validate my service idea? Many thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Advice Needed - Finding partners for referral opportunities? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 03:02 PM PDT Hey everyone. Curious about what you'd recommend for finding people I could work with to get some referrals. I'm looking to expand my business. I do a variety of digital marketing (SEO, content production, web design, etc.) and have mostly done it myself freelancing but got a few big clients lately and brought on a team. Now since I have the expense of these people, I want to make sure new business is coming in to support them continually. One of my main focuses has been ads, but from others in my industry it seems referrals are really effective. (I also get most of my work through referrals from friends but friends aren't scalable!) People that would likely be a good fit are folks who work with VC firms or startup incubators, etc. But I'm open to other ideas if you have them. The question is how would I go about finding potential partners to offer a referral opportunity to? The basic idea would be they set up pitches with their contacts and get a cut of the revenue if they sign on. [link] [comments]  |
| Roughly 2 Mo away from SAAS launching... Landing Page template?? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 02:36 PM PDT What's up everyone, I'm a marketing / sales founder and I've hired a firm to build my SAAS. They've done a pretty good job so far as my requests have been pretty dynamic, very responsive (I'm definitely paying the price for this) anyway, we're at the stage where they've asked me to find a template that I want to use for my startup. Originally, they were going to make me one by coding one out, however, their previous ones that they've made do not match the style that the software will be (I bought a UI kit for them to use that has a particular theme to it) anyway, what is your suggestion on finding a good landing page theme? Any sites out there? I'm familiar with themeforest and ui8, anything else out there? [link] [comments]  |
| Advice please – where to look for a CTO Posted: 06 Oct 2020 08:21 AM PDT I'm hoping I can lean on this community to provide me with some opinions on where I might go to look for a CTO to join my startup. First perhaps some background/context. We're a UK startup, pre seed, looking to strengthen our core team with a CTO to fill the main skill gap we currently have. As you can appreciate this role is pivotal to a startup whose product revolves around App & Web platforms, so it has to be right for all parties from the outset, and would be a key role in order to achieve funding in the near future. We're looking for a person who ideally is UK based for ease of working (timezone etc), has prior experience of building/costing complex Apps / Web / SaaS Platforms from the ground up. My search so far, I have used Linkedin, friends, ex colleagues, but alas it appears quite hard to find this type of person, and frankly am struggling to work out what the next move is to find them. Having used Reddit on a personal level for years, it made sense to reach out to the community here as I have always found it a great source for sharing ideas and helping others, this community appears no different. Any advice is greatly welcomed. [link] [comments]  |
| What are the best desktop PPC marketing options? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 01:46 PM PDT We work with Chrome extensions, so we need to make sure that the audience we're reaching only gets in front of people surfing on desktop/laptop browsers (no mobile). Right now, Facebook doesn't allow you to filer your ads by platform so we're looking for other possible platforms. Reddit allows you to choose desktop-only. Are there any others you all might know about? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 06 Oct 2020 01:00 PM PDT Does anyone please know of any good product requirement document templates for a SAAS business that I can use as a starting point to provide a dev team with requirements. As I am sure there are some things (eg password reset feature) that I might omit if writing one from scratch. Obviously each PRD is different but I am sure there are some commonalities across them (eg around user login journeys). Any advice much appreciate thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Younger me would have; older me doesn’t want to do it alone Posted: 06 Oct 2020 03:29 AM PDT So I've been in pursuit of building a website that my younger self would have given twenty hours a day to produce. Due to a bad breakup at the time it subsequently led to burnout and then the passion withdrew and took a few years to return. I went into postgraduate study as a response. Now I'm ready to give it another go but I'm unsure how to approach it. Tech has substantially changed. All my friends are on stable career trajectories and obviously as we age we take less financial risks. Especially in the current state of the world. I feel embarrassed that I'm in my early thirties and have dreams of startup culture whilst my current partner is about to broach six figures. I feel like a child pursuing a old dream but I at the same time still think the idea would work. Any advice from someone with similar experience? [link] [comments]  |
| Can I prove ownership if cofounder leaves Posted: 06 Oct 2020 04:16 AM PDT I was in the process of developing a prototype for an app a couple of years ago with a confounding developer. The concept was initially mine, I created the UI / designs and was marketing and he was meant to be developing the app. We agreed on 50/50 ownership (verbally) but he dropped out of the project before he finished development. I don't have access to any of the code. I now want to enter my designs and a clickable prototype (hosted on InVision) to a contest for funding to develop the app. I wouldn't be submitting any of his code. Am I able to prove ownership of the concept and designs if required during contest submission? [link] [comments]  |
| Finding a job in a startup as tech. professional Posted: 06 Oct 2020 06:16 AM PDT Hello everyone,For the recent years I've been freelancing and running my own startups. As most common - startups didn't go well but my freelance is showing quite a potential. I found a great niche (MVP/POC development) and my experience seems to be paying off (8+ years Mobile (tech), 2+ years management). I'm having quite some fun freelancing, but I'm still thinking to join a startup I believe in and make best out of it. As I really want to utilise my strong Mobile, UX and Product skills. And one of my goals to experience the exit.And here I found an issue - how to find startups? I'm based in Asia and actually I'm eyeing to Silicon Valley. I know it's overrated, but tech is much more appreciated vs in Asia. But I'm fairly lost - where to start. One great thought I found is reaching various VC's, as they might now, who needs what. Are there any other thoughts of how to find startups to work for? Any suggestions are appreciated! ---------------------- Resource List: [link] [comments]  |
| Business idea: youtuber merch abroad Posted: 06 Oct 2020 07:21 AM PDT Hello! So I just had this business idea and can't get it out of my head. It's pretty simple in practice: Selling youtuber/instagrammer/tiktoker merch in my country. Here's the thing: international shipping to latin america is a nightmare. I live in Peru, and you have to jump through many hoops just get a shirt. Sure, there are services that can do it for you, but just the fact of going through another service to get your hoodie in x weeks its a complete turn off for many people. Here's where my "store" would come into play, we would already have the inventory with us. preventively buying the merch (we would start with biggest youtubers, safe sells) your transaction would only be with us and our catalogue, no importing, no middle man, no waiting time. just like a regular store My only concern would be the legal aspect. I would buy the the original product from the influencers stores themselves, but would I get into trouble for selling their brand? do i have to ask permision from them?it would be a small business, I don't want Jefree Star's lawyers in my inbox [link] [comments]  |
| Seeking free/low cost Digital Marketing help for someone with a business consulting blog? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 06:48 AM PDT Hi, my fiancé has been unemployed recovering from illness and organ surgery for 3 years. He however has a free Wordpress site with tons of posts about business management and operations consulting. I think he could market with help by gating white papers that I design from his articles or blog posts for download and contacting these prospects to see if they need further consulting help. We're looking for help finding these leads and resources to create the gated download page. I thought Hubspot but I see 3rd party integration complaints. Can anyone help with this? Thank you. [link] [comments]  |
| Serials and authentication methods? Posted: 06 Oct 2020 04:10 AM PDT Hi everyone!! Hope everyones good! I'm making my own line of products and I'm looking for different ideas of how I can implement a veriyfying method for each of my products... for example, each item having a unique number and a website to verify its authentic. Also how could I do this in a way it cant be just copied? Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance 😎👊 [link] [comments]  |
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