#RedditStartups

I've heard that starting a business targeting a niche audience can make marketing easier, but I'm struggling to figure out how to actually reach that audience. I'm building a product for people who have served LDS missions.…

I've been trying to raise for a foundation model focused on commercial real estate investment analysis for a few months. I come from a Wall St. and university AI research background doing exactly what I'm raising for.…

In March/April I made my website using claude/chatgpt in perplexity which was meant to showcase my idea/vision for my startup idea that I had. At the very end of the website, I left a waitlist signup form for people to show interest in my idea.…

Are Millennials the building too much in their mid and late twenties without any direction and understanding of the code and other necessary skills needed to build a product.…

Hi, Going to keep this deliberately vague. I recently got invited as a guest by quite a* *large startup to a dinner they are hosting in NYC. I did not know anyone at this company prior to this invitation.…

I’m 5 weeks into my startup with a ready MVP, and so far I’ve received mostly positive feedback from potential clients, but most of them are backing off because they want to see the product in a more “mature” form.…

I am just curious how other start-up founders are handling this: Once you are past product-market fit and you are shipping on a weekly basis, engineers self-testing tends to stop scaling, edge cases slip, regressions creep in and someone is spending their…

I built a thing. I’m really proud of it and it solves a massive problem in my world, but my world is nonprofits and I kept being told there was no money there. HAHA! Wrong!…

I see dozens of posts on X/Linkedin, etc., talking about "we quit our dream jobs to build XYZ, we raised X million, now we're changing the world," and you go to their website, and it's the same cookie-cutter AI cold outreach/sales engine/meeting booker.…

I'm evaluating two marketplace business ideas and would appreciate some objective opinions on which has better commercial potential, profitability and long-term growth prospects.…

Does anyone have any book recommendations for entrepreneurship or startup? I’m joining a startup as a PM and I’d love to better understand business and see how I can bring ideas to help further the company beyond just my role.…

Hey Folks, I’m starting a remote water softener business that requires me to buy and store equipment shipped on a pallet, once a month. I am fully remote from the market I operate in. So I cannot regularly travel to this city.…

I'm doing research on lending to AI startups. The thing I'm trying to understand is the timing between paying for compute and getting paid by customers. Your GPU or API bill is due every month but enterprise customers can take 60 or 90 days to pay.…

I made an ai receptionist and after hours dispatch for hvac companies, i want a pilot and people to test it . I have the lists from apify just can’t make myself call them been stalling for over 2 months. The fear of idk what .…

Say you’re raising $500k. You find a VC who invests in your sector, and a friend offers to introduce you. Then you look at the fund’s website. Their smallest check is $5M. I’d save that intro for later.…

I started working on a SaaS targeted at people looking to move abroad for work, studies, or general immigration. How it works: It assesses a user's profile against various pathways and lists up to 4 countries they are the best fit for.…

We're a US company with the whole team (15 people) in the States so far, and we're about to hire our first person in London to look after UK customers, as a few of our bigger accounts are over there now.…

Very early startup (commercial cleaning). Called a bunch of local cleaning companies to validate the idea to see if they’d be willing to subcontract for office cleaning, etc.…

I’m thinking about how product market fit involves understanding the customer’s problems deeply, and that sounds like what consultant are experts in.…

Hey startups, Looking for some blunt operational advice from founders who have been through the pre-seed fundraising phase. I’ve built our MVP, locked down the pitch deck and am running disciplined daily outbound to target investors and…