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We have the weird situation where I’m a 6-time startup guy (3 IPOs) but it’s my cofounder’s first time and she’s my fiancee and chief revenue officer. Basically, she makes the money and I spend it to grow faster. I’m the geek, she’s the domain expert. Anybody else like this?
September 11, 2014
Out of school, I started studying for a professional course. It was boring, so I taught myself programming and started selling small online software. Things went well, and I got myself earning ~ $6k a month. I quit studies, moved to a new city, and started working on a startup idea. My current state, after…
September 11, 2014
My start up died, it was agonizing but I have moved on. Some of my early investors were amazing- some were terrible. I want to reward my great investors with some equity in my new start up because I never would have gotten my start with out them. How do I decide how much equity…
September 11, 2014
I’ve read quite a few unfortunate stories of founders that have spent their hard earned money trying to tackle a “big problem” with a “huge market” but finding little traction. I was one of these unlucky folks, trying to tackle one such opportunity. Thank goodness I woke up and quit before I went broke. There…
September 10, 2014
This article appeared in the Founder Confessions series on Inc.com. If you’d like to be a part of this series, look for the “Topical Confessions” on the right sidebar to view the current topic. If you were to ask, you'd probably discover that most founders have a secret or two following them around. In most cases,…
September 10, 2014
After over 15 months of full time effort I am seeing zero traction. I can drive traffic to the site but it just won’t convert. I’ve tried testing headlines, copy, layout, done user testing and calls, phone numbers on the site, live chat, personal outreach to potential customers in multiple markets. Nothing. Zip, zilch. not…
September 9, 2014
We’re exploring avenues of allowing screened homeless people the opportunity of working for our startup after hitting certain sales performance metrics through a referral program we’re deploying.
September 8, 2014
Looking for 1-3 cofounders for my tech startup.
September 8, 2014
I started my solo startup and launched my MVP over a year ago. I developed everything, both backend and frontend. My product is a social site that already gained traction. Currently hitting 20,000 daily visitors, 500+ daily signups. Quite an increase from 300 daily visitors 5 months ago. But I’ve been losing a bit of…
September 8, 2014
Back in 2008 I started a SAAS for professional photographers without any outside funding. I brought in another developer around the same time and it’s just been the two of us working full time on it ever since. In the beginning we were making enough money to pay the bills, attend trade shows, do some…
September 7, 2014
We have attracted the interest of a TV personality, total random ask … but she’s interested in being involved with us. We met and connected at an event. We are an early-stage B2B product with low traction and trying to raise our seed round. Her team has asked me for what we want from her…
September 7, 2014
I have been running my startup for the last 3 years. It has generated some income, but just barely enough to cover expenses. I still am not sure of its success, though each product seems to have huge potential in the right market. I find this is not the right market and am in the…
September 6, 2014
Curious what the scenarios would be.
September 6, 2014
I’ve been working for close to 2 years on my e-commerce startup (while also being Mr. Mum) and last week made my first sale to someone not personally connected to me (friend, family etc.) It was such a great feeling (and a bit of a relief) to see all the work and processes come together…
September 5, 2014
He’s the Tech guy. I’m the CEO. We just got accepted into a pretty notable accelerator. All the funding we need will be given to us once we complete the project, but all of the problems I’ve been having with my cofounder for the past 8 months are about to boil over. I take accountability…
September 5, 2014
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