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- Share Your Startup - February 2021 - Upvote This For Maximum Visibility!
- Should I Listen To My Gut and Walk Away? (Startup Culture)
- How to acquire initial users / best initial marketing strategy?
- VC partner wants to be an official advisor, wants to talk terms.
- Am I legally allowed to ask for donations on my website?
- Is it reasonable to try to found a startup that has its growth voluntarily restricted?
- Advice on next steps(Long post alert)
- Hiring as a non-technical founder
- Intern at an influencer marketing start-up
| Share Your Startup - February 2021 - Upvote This For Maximum Visibility! Posted: 31 Jan 2021 09:00 PM PST r/startups wants to hear what you're working on! Tell us about your startup in a comment within this submission. Follow this template:
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| Should I Listen To My Gut and Walk Away? (Startup Culture) Posted: 31 Jan 2021 11:09 AM PST Hi everyone. Wall of text disclaimer. TLDR; I am looking for some guidance regarding whether I should listen to my gut and walk away from what I believe is an unhealthy startup culture, while struggling with guilt for leaving. A little over a year ago, I was brought on as a co-founder of a startup to work part-time, while working a very demanding full-time job. This disables me from being a part of the day-to-day with the team, but I still put in 15-20 hours with zero compensation. When I began with the startup, there were 6 people on the team (also working for free), later adding 2 more to equal a total of 9 (with me). Fast forward to today, and it is just me and the CEO left. Nothing was ever talked about regarding other team members not being involved anymore, which I thought was odd. But with my limited time, I never had the chance (or feel it was appropriate) to discuss what happened. Throughout my time with the startup, the CEO has had a tendency to add things to our calendars with no context, forward/send confirmation emails about us providing services to customers (including nights and weekends) without explanation, purpose, or checking our availability, being perpetually late to meetings, consistently not being prepared for the service we provide our customers with, and making excuses as to why things haven't gotten done. One of those things that has been pushed off with excuses for many months has been agreement documents. Since we all are working for zero compensation, equity was promised to us, pending an agreement. For the better part of the past year, the CEO has given many excuses as to why the agreements are not ready yet, but continues to tell us we will have a good amount of equity in the company. Since I am the only co-founder left (and with extremely limited time), we have more work ahead of us that I cannot shoulder. Some days I am pulling 19 hour days to help out, which I have told to the CEO and they ignore by saying they are tired, too. Recently, I reminded the CEO of my limited time and told them I won't be able to assist with the next upcoming project. They expressed their displeasure and now wants to talk with me about compensation and an agreement. To be quite honest, it is not about the money for me. It has always been about the purpose and passion of it all. However, what I was originally brought on for due to my expertise has been overtaken by being asked to do other things. The nebulous state I am constantly in due to lack of communication and follow through has left me feeling scared, frustrated, and somewhat used. I have realized I can't work like this. My personality is the type that I take people at their word and will say 'yes' to anything for the sake of helping others (I am working on it). However, over the past several months of self-reflection, self-improvement, and the former co-founders expressing their disappointment/reasons for leaving, I am beginning to see red flags everywhere. I am struggling with my gut telling me to run while feeling terribly guilty. Is my gut right? Are these things red flags? Is the unhappiness and anxiousness I now feel valid? Is it okay to leave a work culture that is not healthy for you? Thank you for any help and insight you can provide. [link] [comments]  |
| How to acquire initial users / best initial marketing strategy? Posted: 31 Jan 2021 11:16 PM PST Hi all , I am developing a marketplace platform and planning on launching it in a big city for the MVP. I have a few questions . 1: what's the best route to go about for acquiring initial users ( consumers + producers) 2: are there any tips you could give me for launching the product whether it be a certain community online etc Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| VC partner wants to be an official advisor, wants to talk terms. Posted: 31 Jan 2021 07:40 PM PST Had an initial meeting with an early stage VC partner who loved the idea we were pitching. We are still early and he wants to advise us official to get us to a pilot phase. Anyway, he signed our NDA and wants to "talk terms" in our next discussion. What should I expect? What terms is he talking about? [link] [comments]  |
| Am I legally allowed to ask for donations on my website? Posted: 31 Jan 2021 06:34 PM PST I haven't registered my company yet or earned any money, I'm running a record label and finally paid the website costs for the year (£43), although I haven't released anything yet nor am I working with any artists at the minute. I'm hoping to ask for donations to cover the costs of running the website, and other costs that will be incurred in the future. I'm just not sure how legal this is if I'm not actually a registered business? It's just purely self-funded at this point. I'm from the UK if that makes a difference. [link] [comments]  |
| Is it reasonable to try to found a startup that has its growth voluntarily restricted? Posted: 31 Jan 2021 04:17 PM PST To elaborate a bit on what is in the title. I have already founded 2 startups in the last 10 years. I'm tired of the fight for growth. I'm interested in building a company for 20 people max that creates enough wealth for these 20 people with enough security to be sturdy in the face of tumultuous times. The startup would only work on projects it can handle and would offer wonderful benefits to its employees. Is this too naive and idealistic of an objective? [link] [comments]  |
| Advice on next steps(Long post alert) Posted: 31 Jan 2021 09:17 PM PST Hi everyone, Some years back I moved overseas because I got a job with a startup as the country manager for that market. The startup was toxic AF with bad work culture ... I knew this would be the case going in but I joined basically because I was desperate to move to that country ... The co-founders basically never kept their word, whether it was about equity, salary raises or anything else.. After a couple of years, I had it and left .. my performance was good and they did try to get me to stay but I didn't .. This was a year and a half back my former boss is now doing his next startup(he quit the previous one as he had vested his shares) and reached out to me to join him. I had 1 meeting with him where I told him about the projects I was working on and he told me about the new venture he was working on which is basically the copy of a silicon valley unicorn but in SEA . Over the next few calls he told me he was looking for co founders and wanted me for acquisition. I would be working voluntarily(for free) for now but once the first round closes which he says is in a few weeks, he would pay me (TBH I do not trust him much) I am mainly doing it because this would be a new industry for me and it helps me with the resume gap . Over the last week, he found a couple of co-founders and his tone with me basically changed .. He started telling me how I'm just shooting arrows in the dark or started comparing me with employees in the previous startup (His social skills suck anyway so I am not sure if he did this intentionally or it was just him being stupid) I find it unfair because I feel I actually did good work considering 1. he had zero traction before I joined 2. I actually ended up getting pretty solid leads in the 3 weeks I worked on this
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| Hiring as a non-technical founder Posted: 31 Jan 2021 02:25 PM PST Hello r/startups I'm currently helping a friend hiring the company's first in-house developer (they have been using freelancers up til this point). My friend is not a developer and only have a high-level view of their tech stack (the languages they use and where their servers are hosted etc), but other than that, would not know if a potential candidate actually knows what they say they know. I have been consulting him on the side-line (I'm a developer myself), but with limited time due to my day job, I can't spend the actual time needed to properly screen his candidates. My question is: how have other non-techy founders dealt with this issue? Any suggestions for services/products or processes to help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Intern at an influencer marketing start-up Posted: 31 Jan 2021 12:43 PM PST Hello everyone! I'm sorry if this is not the right page to post at, please let me know if there is a more suitable account for my type of question. A little background about me, I'm an honors graduate in Marketing and Management and graduated in December 2020 which is literally a month ago. I received an offer from a start-up company that is growing rapidly. I love everything about it, from the work environment, the people, and everything in between and I'm so so happy that I'm joining. However, since I'll be interning with them for 6 months, they're giving me a very very low salary which is making me a little bit hesitant on joining. Note that there is no contract so I can leave at anytime. My question is, do you suggest me I start working with them because I really like it and would like to be a full time employee there after the 6 months so tolerate the first 6 months for experience and network and wait for the opportunity to come? Or should I just wait for a better opportunity to come my way? [link] [comments]  |
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