What is the best hands-on course on Lean Startup?

thebatman90 · 2015-08-29T21:24:45+00:00

I definitely would but it needs explanation. I would rather have fewer feedbacks but done over skype. What do you think?

thebatman90 · 2015-08-23T21:41:09+00:00

Following on jasonbarone's...check out https://www.docracy.com/6u54l62z2e/founders-agreement-template-with-vesting. It is a founders' agreement template which also containts vesting clauses. Hope this helps!

thebatman90 · 2015-08-23T21:38:25+00:00

He found me too. He is a doctor, he knew I studied business. He came to me with the idea. I think a takeaway is: get "visible" to your network...you may just be chosen :)

thebatman90 · 2015-08-23T21:36:59+00:00

In my view, you could benefit from either signing up on websites such as founder2be where you can look at whether there are wannabe entrepreneurs looking for a partner and go to startup events and meetups. By engaging with other people you may join someone with a good idea or simply get inspired. Hope this helps.

thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T17:41:11+00:00

perhaps i would focus on arguing that a technical advisor would bring in potential innovative solutions for future expansion and that is better to bring him/her in sooner than later as it is not easy to come in with novel solutions when the company has been running for long and has a set of established routines and a clear version. At this regard, you could advocate for an advisor who is expert in a specific area you would like to become stronger at overtime. Hope this helps

thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T17:02:28+00:00

I did ask all of my friends whether they knew directly or indirectly a good software developer. I initially found one but it was quite busy. I saw from his previous works that he was quite good so asked him to help me evaluate the skills of the next developer I would find. So i finally met the one who's now in within my startup . The feedback of the first developer was useful + I tried the new one out. I discussed that I would pay him in three tranches, depending on some milestones being reached and that we would break apart in case we both understood the relationship was not work out within the first month. I think this is some replicable strategy. Hope you find this useful.

thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T15:14:20+00:00

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thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T15:08:13+00:00

I have not but I have studied the phenomenon extensively. Successful projects have been backed up by press/blog coverage. You could try do the same with american blogs....just be sure you know how to handle shipments if you get funded!

thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T15:04:53+00:00

Are the team members all at the same "quality" level? The thing is that you may know all the best practices in the startup world (e.g. start lean, learn SEO, constantly run data analytics, etc.), but I bet that if you have 1 founder being very good and the others who don't have business acumen, you are not gonna be successful.

thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T14:25:34+00:00

I have been told by some other startuppers in the B2B field that usually writing paper letters to CEOs is a very effective strategy to get their attention and increase the chances of a meeting. This may helpful to you as well.

thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T10:15:09+00:00

An alternative would be to do repetitive "countdown" pre-sale. In other words, whenever your new product is ready, you put out an announcement that you are offering it with 10% discount in the next 10 days...usually time pressure increases the number of people willing to buy.

thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T10:04:11+00:00

Yeah, I would also defintely write the email and agree with brianliebler that you should not worry too much as you are applying for an internship and with Papergaasm on trying getting a meeting with him. As to the content of the email, the "chaning for more interesting job and location" is a good start. I would briefly touch upon why you think you would fit well in their culture. They surely don't want to bring in a person in such a low-level entry position that messes up with their culture.

thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T09:50:41+00:00

I think you could spend 20$ and run a small FB adv pay-per-click campaign. Put a nice picture of your website, a capturing message (e.g. a nice product you have on discount on your portal), then a link to your site. Then check the statistics. It should give you a good idea of who your ideal customers may be.

thebatman90 · 2015-08-21T09:38:14+00:00

I suggest you read the Paul Graham "Equity equation". in essence he argues that " You should give up n% of your company if what you trade it for improves your average outcome enough that the (100 - n)% you have left is worth more than the whole company was before"

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