I want to understand where to find startup founders? HI, As my tool target stratup founders, i want to understand where to promote my product to reach my target audience. Its like, as a startup guy what you will check or follow for news, trends. P.S. other than reddit, twitter , social channels etx 4 0 replies
Feedback Friday Welcome to this week’s Feedback Thread! # Please use this thread appropriately to gather feedback: * Feel free to request general feedback or specific feedback in a certain area like user experience, usability, design, landing page(s), or code review * You may share surveys * You may make an additional request for beta testers * Promo codes and affiliates links are ONLY allowed if they are for your product in an effort to incentivize people to give you feedback * Please refrain from just posting a link * Give... 4 3 replies
What are your biggest challenges with cloud computing for AI/ML tasks? Hi everyone, I’m an ML researcher exploring the challenges AI/ML practitioners face with current cloud computing platforms, and I’d love to hear your experiences and views. Here are a few guiding questions: 1. Do costs limit your ability to scale or run experiments? 2. Have you faced challenges accessing specific hardware like GPUs or CPUs? 3. Are you concerned about data privacy or vendor lock-in with centralized providers? 4. What features or solutions would make your cloud computing experience better? Also, I’m curious about your thoughts on distributed computing... 5 0 replies
Looking for ACTUALLY USEFUL books to read for building my first tech startup I’m in the early stages of building my first tech startup (pre-seed funding, small team), and I’m looking for books that offer **practical, no-BS advice** for founders. Not books that will be useful when I reach $100M ARR, not books to help me manage 100 employees, and not inspirational biographies of successful people. Nothing against those—but I need books that are useful **now.** If you’ve built or are building a startup, what books have genuinely made a difference for you? I’m especially looking for books that opened up things... 2 5 replies
As a founder, What Skills Do you Wish You Learned Sooner in 2024? As a founder, looking back on your journey, what skills do you wish you had learned sooner? Whether it's technical skills, management techniques, hiring techniques or place, behavioral skills or anything else, I'd love to hear about the lessons that could have made a big difference earlier on. 5 5 replies
Looking for Advice on Our Pitch and Networking Event for Startups. In advance if this post breaks any rules, feel free to take it down. Hey founders, I'm trying to host a free online pitch & network event for startups and small-medium sized businesses (SMEs) very soon to celebrate the launch of our startup which is a social media investing platform for the lower market, but I'm a bit stuck on what we should be involving to make this valuable to attendees. What do you think would get you to say "I'm glad I went." and leave you at least... 2 0 replies
Should my company hire big law? One of my partners is insisting we hire a big firm because another partner is leaving. We are in early stages and this seems over the top. We don’t have financing yet. Any advice? Any idea on expected retainer? General idea of cost? Any experience working with these guys? I’d appreciate any guidance 1 1 replies
Has anyone else noticed that inexperienced founders are poor at documentation? My experience is from meeting a couple people on YC cofounder matching/online, who are looking for a dev (me) to join their b2b idea. We talk, they have an idea, and talked to a few or couple potential customers, but can't produce any recordings or transcripts of their conversations. Or a document summarizing their findings and the market research. I'm immediately disinterested at how little information they can produce. They just tell me the idea over a call as if I'm going to remember everything, and as if they... 5 5 replies
Help build your brand Over the years, I’ve developed various strategies to build brands, and now I’m looking to put them to the test totally free. I’ve been diving deep into books and resources from people like Alex Hormozi and Myron Golden, and I’ve learned that the best way to grow is by serving others and solving real-world problems. Which I knew , but I feel like I might be on to something here? I wonder if anyone agrees? What I do know is that many people in this struggle with many differnt... 2 0 replies
I’m guilty as a non-technical founder I have to admit it. I’m guilty as a non-technical founder who doesn’t have coding experience but took a coding bootcamp and has an EXTREMELY entry-level understanding of code. I have, what I believe to be very great “concepts of a plan” *Trump Voice*. But, I know how hard you developers work when you’re coding these applications/softwares/platforms. I don’t know the best way to partner with someone (if you don’t have the capital to pay them to develop the project while I spend time on the front lines making... 1 10 replies
GCP or other AI Startup Cloud Credits Wanted to see if anyone has any tips. We have an actual AI-based solution (not just wrappers) and can fund our work with our own investments, cashflow, 100k-300k, but it would also be great to get cloud credits from GCP, AWS, etc. The problem is for the "Scale" tier they have these requirements where for AI, we need an incubator/accelerator support, which we don't have. We have applied to places like YC, but rejected, but despite that we can fund our work, our own + government, and wanted to... 2 6 replies
Startups expecting free work? I don’t understand where people get the audacity to expect free work on their terms. A friend of a friend asked me to meet about “hiring” me part-time on their startup. I figured I could probably work on it a few hours a week, so I messaged them back and had a meeting. They said they expected me to volunteer and I wouldn’t get any money or stock. I laughed. Then they said that I’d need to put in 10-20 hours a week on a schedule doing software development... 5 10 replies
Getting "funding" from users? Customer vs Investor conflict I'm pondering over a conflict I see in the startup world. Sorry if my text is too long to get to the point. When a product is initially launched, the founders/company start 2 priorities: 1. Deliver value to the users 2. Make money for yourself These are usually in somewhat of an equilibrium, because you need to achieve #1 to even get to #2. Then, if the company gets big VC investment and eventually IPOs, you get a new priority that seems to take the #1 spot - delivering... 5 2 replies
Startup founders Im looking for people with some experience in the industry. I have a platform for students that helps them build their idea into reality. For the next step im bringing in coaching groups. They will be 10-15 people and there will be weekly/ biweekly coaching sessions to see that everyone is on track. I need more experienced founders to coach these groups. Let me know if you are interested. 3 4 replies
Fintech startup Founded a fintech startup based on P2P loans and P2B investing. Currently working on pitch and business plan. Presenting it to a VC fund in less than a month. Does anybody have any suggestions or ideas. • How to get funding and hook VC or investors? •Best tips and ideas for making pitch and business plan better. •Any tips regarding startups/fintech/running a company. Thank you in advance. 5 8 replies
Looking for Co-Founder/Mentor: Experienced Game Dev Seeking to Start a Studio Hi Everyone! I'm a Technical Artist with over six years of experience across AAA, mobile, and AR/VR game development. I possess a strong foundation in production methodologies, including Agile, and excel in resource allocation and risk assessment. I'm passionate about creating engaging casual and hyper-casual mobile games. I'm seeking a business-minded co-founder to handle the business development aspects of the company while I lead game production. If you're a driven individual with a passion for mobile gaming and a strong entrepreneurial spirit, I'd love to hear from you. Please... 5 1 replies
What's the sweet spot for traction for a pre-seed company? Ideally you'd would walk into a VC firm with amazing traction numbers and they'd be so excited, you'd only have to pitch 1-2 VCs before closing your round. I mean , I want to spend time building my product not pitching to VCs. The question I have is what's the sweet spot? If I don't have decent traction and try to raise I'll spend all my time in meetings. If I want too long then I'm hindering my growth as I don't have enough money to grow my company.... 1 10 replies
$100k ARR but not able to scale! Hello Founders, I need genuine help to scale my B2B Marketing Tech SaaS. We are doing $8k MRR and spending $5k expenses, we are not able to scale. Every month I need to build the runway for next month. We are bootstrap, raised $35k from known angel investor and got few VC’s traction but no luck. I need fund to do PMF and spending major time to build next month runway :( 4 3 replies
Best Place to Hire Developers for a Startup (with Business Mindset)? Hi I have been working on a project with freelancers on project basis, and now to take one step further to hire a Developer either on full-time, part-time basis but something which is more consistent keeping nature of SaaS development in mind. i.e. Speed to Market, iterations, Sprints, backlog etc. Not a traditional developer who use waterfall method to scope everything out and most of the time fail to deliver ready product on time. I can continue to invest in the project and keep it bootstrapped, down the line... 4 10 replies
Why startups burn cash I dont understand what is point of geting funds and hiring 20 pepople, if you can do same results with 3-4 people? Having offices in US, everything is ridiculously expensive, you can do same in Europe, with same quality employees. I heard that many VCs require startups to move to US if they want to get investments. So whats the deal, why they do that, and why startups burn cash? Does your valuation increase if you have more employees or something 4 10 replies
