#Startups

One of the most useful heuristics I have when doing office hours with startups is to ask: what would make this company more powerful? Asking how the company could make more money is a good heuristic too, but it tends to yield incremental improvements.…

An anti-pattern is a commonly used process, structure, or pattern of action that, despite initially appearing to be an appropriate and effective response to a problem, has more bad consequences than good ones.Simeon Simeonov first wrote an introduction to…

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Hey r/startups, Context: I launched my tool last month. It's paid but I'm giving free lifetime access to founding members (currently at 3 out of 15-20) in exchange for feedback, participation, and referrals.…

I am trying to find the best way to register a LLC, as i have been told there are a number of forms to fill out at tax time as well. Also, i have been told that i will need a US registered address to open bank accounts and register the LLC.…

Don't really know if this is entirely appropriate sub-reddit to post this question. but wanted to get opinion from people who are building things. So i have this offer for a 3 month contract role as a Founding AI Eng with no equity.…

Is it fair to charge users the "actual" API cost if it exceeds the upfront estimate??? Hey everyone, I’m building an AI tool that processes varying lengths of content (like YouTube videos and large documents).…

I have often sought to understand why so many entrepreneurs waste so much time, energy and money developing products, services or tools that have no real commercial potential.…

I have often sought to understand why so many entrepreneurs waste so much time, energy and money developing products, services or tools that have no real commercial potential.…

I graduated with a finance degree exactly one year ago, and honestly I've been scared of graduation since the day I started college. The reason is because I never had a career I wanted. I never cared about finance.…

Can anyone with first hand experience advise on how they grew sales from founder led on-field sales to team-led sales so they could engage on strategic initiatives? What worked for you and what failed?…

Don't really know if this is entirely appropriate sub-reddit to post this question. but wanted to get opinion from people who are building things. So i have this offer for a 3 month contract role as a Founding AI Eng with no equity.…

I have an ex-client who has recently launched a new startup. It's a service based business (not a SaaS or physical product). It's currently just him. He has 1 client so far. He wants to get me onboard to help him grow, and eventually run the company.…

Can anyone with first hand experience advise on how they grew sales from founder led on-field sales to team-led sales so they could engage on strategic initiatives? What worked for you and what failed?…

About startup funding and how investors evaluate early-stage founders. A lot of investors say they want to invest in startups, but sometimes it feels like they only want to see extreme traction, extreme growth, or a very obvious path to a huge outcome…

When I started my project about six months ago, I was hell bent on not accepting any users that would not be willing to at least put their credit card data down even during a trial.…

Hey, So i am a 2026 grad in Bsc IT from a tier 3 college having 0 placements. We do get some job notifications from our college but it is usually for "Females" for "Front Desk or smth like that" I am comfortable using tools like Advanced Excel,…

It’s 4:32 pm on a random Tuesday, half an hour until I call it a day, still got a lot of tasks left. I work in my dream job, I’m supposed to be giddy all over the place.…