Completely out of funding, just before launch. Also, I’m being kicked out of my apt, totally broke
Built and developed my company over the past 18 months on 10k in funding from a startup incubator/accelerator. Spent 5k or so of my own in the 1st 6…
How do you find a buyer for a hardware company?
I want to get the hell out of running this business. It makes $15K a month but holds $500K in debt. The brand is strong and drives traffic and the space…
How do I do a market pivot while retaining revenue from current product?
My startup created an enterprise product, and within 3 months of beta had signed up 3 high profile customers, the revenue of which covers our basic…
Can a Non-Technical person create a technical startup?
I’ve had this idea for a while now and really think it’s a home run. It will be an app, but I have no coding skills. I’m currently learning coding by…
How do I counter cofounder betrayal?
I started 2 startups with the same set of 3 (so total 4 co-founders). First one, 3 of us brought in some of our savings to bootstrap our venture. Since it…
What are interesting perks to provide to graduated startups from an accelerator?
I’m trying to come up with a list of advantages for startups in our alumni network, but I’m finding it difficult to come up with a set of initiatives that…
Lack of marketing is slowing down our startup
We have a startup catering to mainly local restaurants. We are still working in MVP stage, almost for 6 months now, and adding features mainly what our…
Has anyone read this bullshit? Just because you did the “best pitch of your life” does not entitle you to money, whether you’re an ethnic minority or not.
This guy bitches about going to a Series B (Yes B) fund with a Diversity side fund. He says nothing about his business other than that he tried really…
Why the best and the brightest Women will never make it
Is it really that hard to respect someone? So… I’ve been at my startup for quite a while. I’ve spent years studying, researching, and when I felt…
What should I do about my moonlighting employee?
I have an employee at my startup, and he is moonlighting. He doesn’t make any effort to hide it, and generally I haven’t paid attention. He is paid under…
How does one get past being afraid of the financial risk of failure for a young family? How does one get past being afraid of partnering with others?
I’ve started penniless as cofounder of a successful business (at some point we had subsidiaries in 4 countries and considered #1 in our niche) needing…
What’s the best advice you got that saved or made your startup?
Go back to a fulltime job to finance the startup?
I am a solo founder and I am running a SaaS business (Data Analytics). We are a team of 3 (me and two programmers that I pay) and have been coding for…
How easy do you find it now to find quality dedicated co-founders OR employees with minimal funds?
It seems the unicorns now are solid dedicated team partners (early employees or co-founders) with real interest in committing full-time to a startup for…
My partner isnt following through…
Not because he is lazy, but he has a business he has been running for close to 20 years that is taking all his time. He just grossly overestimated his…
How much equity should a PT employee get?
We are a bootstrapped company looking to engage a jr. designer & jr. developer to help out. Both folks that we are talking with have full time jobs. They…
Legal advice?
I’m a young engineer that will need to officially start a company in the next month to handle IP that could will be internationally valuable. I’m working…
How Do You Let Things Go (Mentally), Even After The Business Is Closed
Looking for advice on clearing my head of past experiences that still bother me. My first business was an adventure and full of amazing lessons, I was…
How to find a Hustler?
We’re an techies-only, 100% bootstrapped startup. We’ve got a great (working!) product, some paying customers, and quite some traction within our niche.…
Great idea, patents filed, now how do I gain traction?
So I’m bootstrapping a new ride-sharing service, working during the day to support it and building it in the morning/night. I’ve gotten it hammered out as…
Where may I find a solid NDA/Non-compete agreement? Also, issue with co-founder
I need an NDA/Non-compete for a supply company (and members thereof) I will be collaborating with in the future. I will also require another for a…
Turnover prediction for VC’s
We have a working product (SaaS) but we need some funding in order to continue. We also have first clients and the product has big potential. However, we…
If you build it, will they come?
The “Silicon Valley way” of doing business is to come up with an idea first, then form a company/startup. Is it possible to do it the other way…
How do I create a startup without any “technical” knowledge?
First off, a bit of background. I have a rather extensive financial background with a career path to Financial VP or CFO. Over the years, I have worked…
What should I do when my friend keeps question my ways?
My friend and me are college undergrads and are working on our separate startups. He focusses a lot on market research and formal paperwork. I am trying…
How do I make sure I get my share of a startup that is in the process of being created?
I’m starting a project with some friends that seems promising, and the person that came up with the idea wants me to sign an NDA and an NCC. I don’t…
How do you respond to pricing questions from the users on your site?
We have a lot of customers who reach out to us to inquire about our pricing. We only have demos and tutorials on the website. If we tell them the pricing,…
Am I meant to be an entrepreneur?
Perhaps I’m just a busy body who cannot focus. I have worked since I was 16, very academic, went to school and got degrees because it is easy for me. Have…
Should a coder wear a tie to an interview?
I'm not a programmer, but was having a debate with someone who said they felt like male coders should wear a tie, possibly even a suit, for job…
How to get through funding gap!? Ideas for quick funding?
Currently founder & CEO of a company, which is currently in the business of brokering an unregulated commodity, to be bought from suppliers, then sold to…