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
- How I Drastically Reduced my Shipping Costs
- Resources to become a good startup cto
- Problems you guys experience/d with running a startup as a part time job
- SaaS sales to enterprise as a startup-anyone with success?
- Anyone have experience with getting code audited?
- Just posted my app to Product Hunt, what next?
- Best place to get new website hosted on which won't cost much?
- erli bird/betatesting.com experience and finding beta testers
- Should I learn how to code or try to get in a CTO
- Taking my business paperless & getting clients to sign future contracts on an iPad
- My dad wants to set up a business before he retires in a trade
- Finished the product... Stuck at the logo design
| Posted: 27 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]  |
| How I Drastically Reduced my Shipping Costs Posted: 27 Oct 2020 09:36 PM PDT I have a small business selling custom glass whiteboards. They're beautiful, but unfortunately large and difficult to ship without proper packing. I ordered boxes and bubble wrap online and for a while this worked, but for the sizes I had it was extremely difficult to avoid the large package surcharge. MY initial costs, just for a rough idea were $17 a box, 4 feet x 3 feet x 10 inches, $5 in bubble wrap, 45 minutes of my time to package one large board, and $150-$250 shipping in the US. I knew I could reduce costs by going with custom cardboard boxes, but I was hesitant and had an extremely difficult time finding a local manufacturer who could help me with packing at a reasonable price. Fast forward a few weeks on and off searching and around 30 unanswered emails later, I had found a local manufacturer to help. New costs: $1.9 a box, $7 in custom made foam, 25 minutes to pack a product for shipping, shipping under that large-package surcharge bringing my costs down to $50-100. Custom packing was a game changer for me. I thought the order quantity was going to need to be huge but I was able to start with an order of 10 units, slightly higher prices but not by much, the numbers I'm showing here are for quantities of 100. Many manufactures are eager to fulfill those small orders, they are simply hard to find. Here are some tools that I've found work best:
Good luck in your search! [link] [comments]  |
| Resources to become a good startup cto Posted: 27 Oct 2020 04:20 PM PDT I'm looking for Ebooks or podcasts I can consume to form myself into a cto. Right now I'm a tech lead building an mvp for a startup. I'm not sure I'll be the cto to start, but want to position myself to learn as much as I can and be the cto of a startup after this gig. My biggest struggle is I don't know business. I'm all tech. Do I look at an mba? How do I start? [link] [comments]  |
| Problems you guys experience/d with running a startup as a part time job Posted: 27 Oct 2020 10:26 PM PDT Hey guys, I'm hopefully going to launch my startup soon, but I want to open my mind up to the possibilities of problems I may face as I'll be busy during the day. Even the minor problems you guys might of experienced in the past. tell me how it went:) Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| SaaS sales to enterprise as a startup-anyone with success? Posted: 27 Oct 2020 02:22 PM PDT So I recently started a b2b SaaS startup. Our target organizations are software/tech companies where their employees are more highly skilled (coders, engineers, quants, etc), but more importantly 250 plus employees. Have you found a consistent practice that gets you in front of the decision makers to pitch for sales? [link] [comments]  |
| Anyone have experience with getting code audited? Posted: 27 Oct 2020 07:57 AM PDT I'm the sole developer of an app for a startup and want to make sure the app is secure and reasonable from an outsiders perspective. Has anyone had experience hiring an auditor or something like that for this purpose? I have heard of outsourcing code reviews and am also interested in something like that. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Just posted my app to Product Hunt, what next? Posted: 27 Oct 2020 10:08 AM PDT Hey everyone! So I launched my app on Product Hunt, but I'm not very familiar with this platform. I'm curious as to what steps would help me to increase my chances of increasing my exposure using this platform? Also, my app is more of a social media application. How do social media apps typically do on Product Hunt? Thank you everyone in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| Best place to get new website hosted on which won't cost much? Posted: 27 Oct 2020 01:48 PM PDT I work for a small travel company based in the UK. Our holidays are based in France and almost all of our customers are UK people who travel to France to stay in our accommodations. We have a website and the website is all in English since 99.9% of our customers are from the UK. However, due to the effects of Covid, it's almost impossible for us to sell our holidays as British people won't travel to France. So we've come up with a plan to target French people to go on holiday with us rather than British people since the French won't need to quarantine. This plan is just for this Winter only.... we will only be targetting French people for this Winter (November 2020 to April 2021). In order to target French people, we will create a very simple website (I'll use Wordpress for this), buy a domain and ensure the domain is ".fr" for French people, and then get the website hosted. The website will be written in French. Once we have this, we will do some Google Ads so when people search keywords, our new website will appear. We are really trying to keep our costs down as Covid has affected us badly so all of this will be done cheaply. I can't stress the "low cost" part enough. It is also hard to anticipate how many visitors will visit the website as it is all very unknown. We anticipate that the website will just serve us for this Winter so from November 2020 to April 2021 so it is a very short term project. I should also mention that I'm ok with computer but I'm by no means a programmer or HTML guru. I work in marketing so I can do some basic stuff but a lot of this is new to me and I'm trying to pick it all up as I go along. Where would be a good low cost place to host this very basic website? [link] [comments]  |
| erli bird/betatesting.com experience and finding beta testers Posted: 27 Oct 2020 05:54 AM PDT I'm part of a small team developing a software tool for time tracking. The software logs all your digital activities and uses AI to recognize patterns and help you track your time usage. The app is still being developed, but we are already looking for testers. It seems like reddit isn't the right place for it, as most subreddits relating to our target audience are really not interested in these requests. Same goes for most internet fora. How did you find beta testers for your app or software, and how much did you invest in the beta testing phase? [link] [comments]  |
| Should I learn how to code or try to get in a CTO Posted: 27 Oct 2020 09:00 AM PDT So I've a couple of ideas knocking about. I'm relatively happy with how much demand there would be for 2 projects I could undertake. If I take the time to learn how to code, both projects will take me roughly 6 months each. But if I can convince a developer to join me, it will obviously go way way faster, like 1 month. But I don't wanna be another moron looking for a CTO. What's your advice? Actual life experiences would help a lot. I'm a UX designer for context. [link] [comments]  |
| Taking my business paperless & getting clients to sign future contracts on an iPad Posted: 27 Oct 2020 11:54 AM PDT Hello, I am looking to take my business paperless. I currently have a bunch of previously signed contracts that clients have to sign before the work can be done. This old method is starting to become a pain when they need old contracts re-sent as is can take hours to search through. I have found a few apps that can turn these into PDF and then store on a drive etc but I'm not too sure what my best options are. Along with that, I would like to move to ask clients to read & sign on an iPad. Are there any suggested apps for this where I can upload the contract and then get easy access to the signed contracts and sort through them by the client's name? Any recommendations are appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| My dad wants to set up a business before he retires in a trade Posted: 27 Oct 2020 10:58 AM PDT My dad is 60 years old. Yes it is old but it is something he has always wanted to do. His main strengths are trade work like plastering, carpetting, painting, wallpapering, plumbing and electrics. He doesnt know how to go about setting that sort of a business up during a pandemic. But thats definitely his best skill.He learnt this from his late grandad. His main work has been in finance in the motor trade and he rents out some houses, but kept his main job. He wants to know how exactly he can begin to set up a business working in a trade, could anyone help? We are from the UK [link] [comments]  |
| Finished the product... Stuck at the logo design Posted: 27 Oct 2020 04:25 AM PDT So I have been working on SaaS targeting a particular group of people. The logo has to be professional and classic for the target audience but feels techy since this is a software product... I'm struggling to find a good design. I tried with two designers but the outcome was either too techy or too classic. I'm honestly stuck at this phase and not sure where to go. I'm thinking that the design is the logo and the visual identity has to be perfect and exceed my expectations. This keeps me getting stuck at where I'm. Have you guys had any similar experiences? How did you over come them... What kind of advice would you give me? [link] [comments]  |
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