Startups Considering making a change |
- Considering making a change
- How to best grow startups at a university?
- How to pay remote employees working in a foreign country?
- How to best automate product mockup and template design work?
- How did you find your Technical Cofounder? (No family/friend stories please)
- How do you deal with negative reviews?
- Advice needed: should I continue or leave this startup?
- What Startup Stories sources do you read/watch/listen?
- [HIRING] Passionate or knowledgeable one?
- Should I wait until I have traction to reach out to angel investors?
- No Business Angel wants to talk with me
- When one cofounder is doing a poor job is it best to address the issue immediately or wait for them to drop the ball before having a discussion?
| Posted: 26 Jan 2021 05:39 PM PST Currently I work a large new home builder. For the sake of security I'll leave the name out of it. I have currently hit my cap on salary after 3 years of employment. They do offer decent benefits and tough to hit bonuses. The company has instituted many changes that I don't agree with and will add to my workload. I've been passed up several times for a promotion for less successful builder than myself (I currently build their most difficult line of multi family homes). A friend of mine that worked for the same company split off and started his own company doing renovations and will be getting into both residential and commercial building in general. He contacted me this week asking if I'd be open to a conversation about working for him. He has been in business for about 6 months and the business is really taking off. He reached out to me because we know each other pretty well and would like to bring me on as his "second in command." He said he needed help to keep up with growth. No large overhead that I am aware of and I know this individual to be an intelligent and genuine person. Nitty gritty: Came in on salary about 4K lower than current employer and not as much vacation time. Bonus potential with potential profit sharing is present with new company. New job may require a few more hours a week but will offer good flexibility and working from home as a base of operations. (Not rushing to get office space). I'm stuck because I have a family and just want to make the best decision possible. I have much more to learn at the new company and am starting salary at the higher end of the salary range of the old company. Heart says yes to new job, fear says stay with current company (more security). Not sure how to jump here [link] [comments]  |
| How to best grow startups at a university? Posted: 26 Jan 2021 10:30 PM PST Friends and I are about to launch an app at the university. What are growth jacks/marketing techniques to get this to grow and spread like wildfire? The product itself has a neat market fit (it's like a tutoring app) but considering the pandemic and the remote learning environment, we're really relying on word of mouth and the network effect to get this to grow. Would really appreciate any insights on how to get this to achieve the "cool kid item" effect (a la Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc). [link] [comments]  |
| How to pay remote employees working in a foreign country? Posted: 26 Jan 2021 03:28 AM PST How do companies who have remote teams from multiple foreign countries pay their employees? Assuming the company is not incorporated in the country where their remote employees are located, how would employment contracts and the logistics of paying them work? Mainly asking about European and East Asian countries. [link] [comments]  |
| How to best automate product mockup and template design work? Posted: 26 Jan 2021 04:45 PM PST Hi all, I am looking to see if anyone has experience solving the best way to automate the product mockups and design templates for apparel. Historically I have used a full-time graphic designer to do them with self-recorded Photoshop Actions. I am looking to optimize this further since it's the same repetitive work we could be spending on the actual designs. We do full cut & sew apparel, so there are two parts:
We have one "input design file" which has all of the necessary design work. I am looking for a designer with deep automation (and possible coding) experience that could help me understand the actual technology involved here to go from Point A to Z. The process goes like this..
Anyone with experience of a similar project? [link] [comments]  |
| How did you find your Technical Cofounder? (No family/friend stories please) Posted: 26 Jan 2021 04:08 PM PST I've worked in tech for a few years now and I have a prototype fully designed and ready for development. My strengths are everything outside of development as I've worked as a researcher, designer, marketer, and product manager. The tricky part is finding an engineer who can actually code. How do I find someone who I think would be a great CTO and business partner? While I'm no engineer, I have a background in tech and can typically spot people who are inexperienced. I find many of the entrepreneurial devs are mostly juniors and wouldn't be able to build the prototype. How did you find your business partner? Please don't comment if it was your friend or family member. I am trying to find ways that don't involve having an engineer friend or family already. Is there some place you go and find them? Lol HELP [link] [comments]  |
| How do you deal with negative reviews? Posted: 26 Jan 2021 10:39 AM PST We have shared about our processes with our clients many times, confirmed with them and tell them repeatedly what are or aren't within our job scope. Today we got a bad review because of the misunderstanding. It's an one star review (our first time) I am not sure what other things we could have done to prevent this. Feeling pretty down right now [link] [comments]  |
| Advice needed: should I continue or leave this startup? Posted: 26 Jan 2021 08:42 AM PST Last year, I applied for an internship role as a developer at this startup to gain more experience and knowledge on coding. Turns out that this startup only has unpaid interns, and after a few weeks in, I was pretty much left to my own device to figure out my way as the previous batch of engineers left. It's almost 5 months in now, and most of my time has been spent on interviewing for more unpaid interns, tons of meetings that don't really go anywhere, and a little progress in coding. The design wireframes are only just starting to come out after 4 full months of no concrete designs, and I had to come up with a project timeline at the beginning of this year with breakdown of handovers to figure out that the earliest we can get to launch an MVP platform is end of May. I'm a little torn as to whether I should leave at the end of the 6-month point of my internship (end Feb) and start focusing on my own projects or continue with the hope that I can at least get to build for the launch of phase 1 (for which I don't know how long more it really is going to take). The founder can be really convincing when it comes to selling the vision of his idea, and while it seems promising, I'm starting to lose a little faith in the execution. Is it even normal for a startup to be using so many unpaid interns and making everyone spend so much time on meetings without any promise of equities or employment? Any guidance/advice anyone can provide would be great, thank you in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| What Startup Stories sources do you read/watch/listen? Posted: 26 Jan 2021 08:50 AM PST Hello guys, I was looking for sources that writes/talks about Startup Stories (not startup news like xx has raised $$ MLN, but more like real success or failure stories about startups) and though I could drop a line here. What sources do you usually read/watch/listen about this topic? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| [HIRING] Passionate or knowledgeable one? Posted: 26 Jan 2021 08:03 AM PST Hello all! We started looking for a social media manager. I have a few really great candidates that I really like but they kinda distinguish from themselves a bit (of course). What would you do if you were me? Would you hire someone that doesn't have that much knowledge in this exact field but shows A LOT of passion and really wants to work for and with us or someone that doesn't show that much passion but is really knowledgeable. A bif of backside story. We are a company with three co-founders looking for the 4th employee that will join our team. Can't wait to hear your thoughts! =) [link] [comments]  |
| Should I wait until I have traction to reach out to angel investors? Posted: 26 Jan 2021 07:32 AM PST I am working on a consumer goods startup, and it's not launched yet. Website is still under development. If I want to sustain this company, I need to start raising an angel round as I am close to exhausting all the money I invested personally and through friends and family. It went to website development and inventory costs. I made a list of angel investors in my sector to reach out. Most of them I can get warm intros and some I plan to cold email. However, should I wait until the site is launched and have made some sales before reaching out? Or is it ok to reach out angel investors with no site and no traction. [link] [comments]  |
| No Business Angel wants to talk with me Posted: 26 Jan 2021 12:23 PM PST So hey, I tried something like messaging people on LinkedIn or write them via mail but until that day i got no response. I´m living in Germany and currently i see so many startups, which i think they dont deserve any money for that idea, raising over 100m, while i´m sitting here writing that :D and nobody wants to talk with me. Thanks for reading ;) and for some ideas that could help. And maybe you will hear from the idea in a couple of years ;) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Jan 2021 09:11 AM PST In many situations where there are 2 cofounders, one will stop contributing as much and rely on the other partner to pick up the slack for them. When this happens the hard working cofounder is put in a tough situation for how to address the issue. The way I see if there are 2 approaches to solving this problem and I'm wondering which one is best: 1) Once it is apparent that one cofounder is slacking the other should immediately bring up the issue and ask how it can be fixed. 2) The hardworking cofounder should not pick up the slack of the other. They should continue working as normal and when something goes wrong because the other other cofounder didn't do their part they should bring up the issue and ask how it can be fixed. [link] [comments]  |
| You are subscribed to email updates from Startups - Rapid Growth and Innovation is in Our Very Nature!. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
| Google, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States | |
No comments:
Post a Comment