How to best utilize $5000 budget for marketing?
So we have soft launched our service a few weeks ago, got only a couple of clients so far. We still have roughly $5000 budget left to spend from a…
How important is it to have a manager in a startup?
As we all know the startup success rate is not as promising as we might think. My question is if there’s an actual need to have a person within the…
Do you think being fat hurts your chances of closing deals and funding?
I’m about to start raising a seed round for my new venture. Since the last time I raised money, I’m about 40 pounds heavier than my ideal weight. I am…
What time do you (or your company) start work at?
Location, time, title (if necessary)
What do you do to find new talent?
It would be interesting to see what techniques and tricks you use to find new people for your staff.
Is there an incubator/accelerator for those that don’t live in their parent’s basement?
So you have all these incubators and accelerators but they all have the same problem. You have to move to where they are located and do it full time for…
Should I start my own business or accept a job offer I just received, even if I hate the industry?
I left “cubicle nation” a couple of weeks ago because I couldn’t take it anymore. I hated the job, the mentality and the bitchy colleagues. I had always…
What DRIVES you most?
What drives you as an entrepreneur? I am unhappy with the world I live in and choose to be the change I wish to see in it. I may be delusional, but I…
If you removed bias by having resumes scrubbed of all University + past employer names, would you hire better employees?
As a founder recruiting for your company, if you started with employee #1 and passed down this same framework for hiring employee #1000, would you feel…
Does Florian Leibert’s new company and $11M funding mean he got over his sexual assault case?
Whatever became of sexual assault case between then Twitter’s Florian Leibert and Googler Noirin Shirley? Weird to not hear any update on a case involving…
What can you do if you’re growing users and it’s costing more and more to operate?
Launched our product without much fanfare but months later we’re growing pretty steadily. The growth is causing our variable costs to rise much faster…
I’ve just discovered a competitor to our app has been accepted into YC. Am I screwed? What can I do?
So, they didn’t come up in previous market research. It has more developers working on it, has most of the features I planned to build for my app, and got…
Interview w/ Google; tell them about my secret YouTube project?
I have an interview w Google (programmer)… very soon. I have a lot of experience under my belt in terms of personal projects and such.. but one thing that…
50-50 split. Should I fight for another percentage?
Equity & everything split w/ my co-founder down the middle (done deal, already on signed contracts). What would have to be the situation that would make…
Is YCombinator’s startup school NYC event worth attending?
Especially when travel costs $400+ for flight alone. I know it’s great opportunity to meet other startup people and some YC members, but how much…
Better to raise seed through AngelList or CrowdFunder?
We’re looking for a seed round of $500k. We have a proven B2B mobile SaaS product with beta client and ‘very close to signing’ a handful of paying…
Ever thought about what will happen when the bubble bursts and we all need jobs?
What can we show for it? College drop out, never worked in a real company, not even in an internship, just a few side gigs to keep afloat? And who would…
‘Unknown’ founders – should we be getting out there with audience, or investors?
We believe we have a great product, great idea and testing with our audience shows us it could work. We (being two of us) have enough money to last for…
Am I the only one who thinks the Valley is getting too damn PC?
So this Atlassian developer puts out a slide on why “Maven is my girlfriend” and the WHOLE internet blows up… well mainly female journalists get all…
Quit and re-try, or get it up?
We are bug fixing our site. Every time we fix something, another thing breaks. Our site is our business, with money coming in from advertising. For the…
Have you seen ‘Silicon Valley’ on HBO? If so, what are your thoughts?
I really like the Guru thingy, it’s very funny. Other than that, I’d like to hear what you guys think.
Any good Marketing Plan template suggestions? Suggestions on hiring people?
I hired someone to develop marketing collateral, a marketing plan and the items they delivered were subpar. I’m finding that either I have no idea what…
I’m responsible for 30-40% of our traction and we’re worth $10M. How much am I worth?
Just got a nice $10M VC valuation. I’m responsible for more of the traction than anyone else. I help out with some UI/UX but I’m not a tech guy. What…
Iterating on my MVP for a year, got to know my users, ready for open beta, but web app is clunky. Does it pay to trash and start over?
I’m a non-developer founder who outsourced the MVP. Throughout the past year I’ve added features, and removed unwanted ones. I’ve been through many…
How to deal with the impostor syndrome?
I have a PhD in a hard science from a renowned, top-notch institution. I founded a startup in a new, growing market and within months I developed and…
How do I force a large multinational to pay me what it owes me?
We are bootstrapping our startup, and so decided to do some consultation and development work as to get some funding while we grow our product. About a…
Should I Call it Quits?
I have a medical background and I am in way over my head with trying to start up my first mobile application. I found myself wearing multiple hats and…
How do I shut down human resources for any company?
They are the ones that hire you, and they are the ones that fire you. I’ve worked in a lot of companies (with H.R ) and now I have my own. My opinion is…
What do you think of an accelerator application insisting on details of your applications elsewhere?
AngelPad asks which other accelerator programs you’ve applied to, when and what outcome you got. Seems nosy and some people said they’d simply answer no,…
Should I quit this startup?
Our prototype is a year old but it’s buggy. Our launch date has been pushed out repeatedly. We have an awesome idea but we just can’t seem to ship it.…