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    Working during weekends in a startup

    Posted: 11 Sep 2021 01:43 PM PDT

    I am software engineer who joined a startup recently as an early employee with equity. From the beginning I tried to set boundaries regarding working during weekends as they are the only days I can breath in. I don't mind work fully during week days, but not weekends.

    One of the employees work during weekends as week days. Something that might show other employees are not dedicated or they don't give their whole time to the product. Well I'm not sure why that employee work all that time but he is literally a workaholic. CTO and Management is fine with me and him, but I definitely see they favor him in many other cases.

    My point is I cam with low salary, good equity, and I took the risk. I don't have as much equity as the co-founders so it seems unfair to me to work during weekends for "them".

    Please give me your feedback as I'm new to startup culture. Is it fair? Should I ask management to set boundaries? or I'm doing something wrong?

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    All of my areas of interest for building a product are notoriously difficult to build a business out of. Should I just abandon all of these ideas for a more boring yet profitable space?

    Posted: 11 Sep 2021 08:19 PM PDT

    Looking for some advice here:

    I have been fortunate enough in my career so far to now have some flexibility and choice on the next startup I either build or join (had a nice successful exit as a founding engineer).

    There's some areas where i really want to build products in, but these niches are just so difficult to actually build a successful business out of, and all of my product ideas are just "vitamin" type things at best.

    I'm very torn between pursuing these ventures anyways, or just giving up on them and building another startup in a space where I know there's customers willing to hand over money for my product. Less fun, but more lucrative.

    Has anyone been in this situation before, trying to decide between a startup idea that's fun for you with little chance of business success, vs an area that's got a higher probability of success (based on demand) but just a really boring space? How do you navigate these kinds of things?

    Thanks so much for reading and am hopeful to hear your insights.

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    Legal documents for my marketplace?

    Posted: 11 Sep 2021 05:45 PM PDT

    Where can I find legal documents to form my marketplace within my startup. I am about to launch a marketplace and I have the vendors but I haven't gotten "real legal documents". What I have currently is that the vendors have be "ethical, honest..etc. I can throw them out of my marketplace if they break those rules"

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    How to sell multiple web app "licenses" to one customer?

    Posted: 11 Sep 2021 11:56 AM PDT

    I'm looking for a way for someone to buy access to my web app for multiple end users.

    Here's the context: my customer is HR departments, and my end user is employees. I'm going to charge a one-time fee for lifetime access for each user. Not worried about MRR here, that comes from end user activity within the app.

    Say the HR department wants to buy access to the web app for 20 of their employees. I want them to be able to buy 20 "licenses" and provide an email address for each of those 20 employees. I then whitelist those end user emails for app access.

    I've had zero luck trying to find a solution on my own. Getting close with Gumroad, Podia, etc. but those don't seem to cut it. I'm stumped.

    Does anything ring a bell to y'all? Many thanks for taking a look.

    EDIT: Thanks to all. Awesome stuff. To add some clarity, I'm a non-technical guy and I built this app in Glide as an MVP. Probably missing some obvious points but the responses so far have been a big help.

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    Going through incredible trouble closing my company in the US.

    Posted: 11 Sep 2021 06:31 AM PDT

    I'm from Asia, my company is registered in the US. My startup didn't do well. I wanted to continue and figure out a way to fix everything.

    My teammate initially said he didn't want to continue. So, I started the company terminating process. After a week, he changed his mind and said, "let's continue". So, I halted all the process and started working on the idea again. But within 45days, he changed his mind, and this time he didn't want to continue.

    Now, I'm left with a company that's running in 2021 which means I have to pay taxes in the US for 2021 as well. To start the winding process you need to pay Delaware and Federal Tax. So I went in there and starting filling the tax form, and it's showing me $30k in taxes. We didn't even make 1$ running the company-- in short, we had 0 customers.

    1. Is there anyone here who has closed a US company and could help understand the process?
    2. Am I doing something wrong in the form? I have a doubt about the tax form here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cyt95syt8q2nucn/Screenshot%202021-09-11%20at%2018.31.12.png?dl=0 What do you mean by Issued shares? It was 0 in the first year(filled by a CPA). Does it change in the 2nd year? Delaware support told me my tax is just 50$, but the online form says something totally different.
    3. What happens If I don't pay the taxes? What does that mean? Does it mean I cannot start another company in the US or travel to the US?

    I understand you might not have answers to all the questions. Any tip would be helpful.

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    Are 5 co-founders of startup a good option??

    Posted: 11 Sep 2021 09:22 AM PDT

    So,we 3 friends had an idea for a startup but due to limited domain knowledge and some time restriction,we decided to include our 2 friends as they had good domain knowledge.There is no issue of trust,but is it a good option to have 5 co-founders in a long run,will it result in conflict going further or will it be okay???

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    User to support tech ratio?

    Posted: 11 Sep 2021 12:17 PM PDT

    For those who are doing software startups and have a pretty good amount of users so far, what do you feel like is a comfortable number of users per support tech on staff?

    I realize every platform is different and will have its own needs, but I'm just curious what others are seeing. Do you feel like it's somewhere around one tech support person for every thousand users, every 5,000, every 10,000, etc? I'm not looking for a specific answer for my exact needs necessarily, but I am curious what others experience.

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