Warning: VRP steals your work and doesn’t give you credit (February 2015)
It’s been a while now but I still can’t get over it. Apparently, it seems like the VR industry can be plagued with thieves and slimy business people. I…
How do most early stage startups get the feedback they need to iterate and become fundable?
I’ve been contemplating this a bunch lately. I’m an entrepreneur, lucky enough to have gone through a high-quality accelerator program, and have…
How much equity to ask for? I’m new… Them ~2yrs
I’ve caught the interest of an early stage, pre-funded startup, small team testing an MVP. They’ve been at it for almost two years, almost one year full…
Will it be worth it?
I’m 16, and a programmer. I want to be an entrepreneur when I grow up. A succesfull entrepreneur and I’m willing to risk my entire life for it. Will it be…
Startups born from landing page experiments usually fail.
Everyday you read articles like “How I signed up 50,000 users before I built my product” and you feel like such a schmuck for actually building your…
Equity for co-founder/First employee (CTO)
My best friend and I paired up 3 months ago to work on a product. Since both of us had limited coding skills, we decided to outsource it to another…
Family member as cofounder … what do I do?
Has anyone started a business with a very very hard to work with ego-centric family member?
After 12 months of trying to raise our first round, things are finally starting to fall into place. But, I’ve lost my drive …
I don’t know if my feelings are temporary or if I’ve just run out of steam (personally) and whether or not I should continue. I’m at a loss as to how I…
Have product 95% built, functioning in a public beta environment, and CTO has lost all interest due to full time job.
I have a product that is 95% built. There are only a couple small things that need to be done at this point. I have a public beta site, this is an…
At the end of my rope
After 3 years full time on my startup (sole founder), with young child and wife, I have thoughts of self harm with the constant stress of being asked to…
Stuck in a shark like Accelerator Program
So this accelerator program we got in is starting to bite us in the back. We got some money from them and they took almost 30% of it as ‘fees’. Now our…
Aspiring entrepreneur
I’m 15 and I want to be an entreprenuer by the time I’m half way through college. I’m a mobile developer and recently started with web development as one…
Frustrated and Sad Cofounder
Our co-founder is a 40 yo grown-ass man who is a technical genius but manages money like a baby and claims he “cannot survive” on $8k/month. His…
Startup ran out of funding before the launch; had to go on the road, couch surfing for two months
Worked in a growing a newly developing industry for 7yrs+. Found a massive market gap and founded my own company to address it. Was invited to a business…
Wife of startup CEO
My husband is incredible and I support his venture 110%. I know he is struggling with so much pressure and feeling alone and the load of every thing is on…
It all ends somewhere
I am broke alone and have nothing to show for it. I am 24 with no degree and my first business is about to go under no money to pay off bills owed. no…
Best questions to ask/vet a potential technical co-founder
I am a non-technical founder. What do you think are the best questions to ask a potential technical co-founder(s) or any co-founder when deciding whether…
Tim Draper’s Startup U is the most pukifying TV series on tech ever
I just can’t get through it. Tim’s trying to act all outrageous but just looking really silly, the “students” are so sugary in their quest to “change the…
How not to lose your technical co-founders/employees
Out of frustration, I decided to leave a post here hoping that it would help the ‘Non Technical’ entrepreneurs understand what’s in the mind of their…
Zirtual shut down abruptly. Why so sudden?
The nature of the Virtual Assistant service to shut down abruptly rang some alarm bells. I’m thinking that is to prevent their Virtual Assistants from…
Are you struggling with a mental health issue as a founder?
SA cofounder, Dana, here. Greta Kaul, a journalist with the San Francisco Chronicle is looking to speak with founders (on or off the record) that are…
How Honest Should You Be with Clients?
My Mom is dying right now – quite literally. She’s on hospice and her condition just got worse. I own a small business, I’m the CEO, copy writer, and…
New Entrepreneur
So I have my first idea for a business. The gist is that it is a SaaS model, people sign up for the service, and the value of paying is that someone helps…
Sold my first company!
I started a E-commerce company in 2011 from scratch on a shoe string budget, ran it at for 4 years and just sold it for a Quarter Million Dollars to a…
FrontBack was a great feature but what were the investors thinking?
So recently FrontBack shuttered. For those of you who don’t know its an app that took front and back photos from your phone to show the scene and your…
SpringSled the “startup” that got 138,790 users in less than 40 days has flatlined… good riddance!
Alexa traffic shows this “growth hacked” startup has flatlined. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/springsled.com At the end of the day, build a frickin solid…
Start-up founder stringing me along for a job; tried to blur personal and business lines
So, I interviewed for what I thought was a great position for an entertainment/ new media start-up in Los Angeles. Everything went well and the President…
Getting tired of FounderDating
So, despite the terrible name, the concept behind FounderDating seemed pretty solid: somewhat of a curated membership so it’s people in the game or…
Is it time to give up?
I quit my day job earlier this year to start my own business. I’ve been broke and miserable ever since. I really thought things would be booming, I would…
Giving up on the startup dream due to health problems
I am starting up a tech company with some partners while I am working on my day job. We have been working on this company now for around one year. The…