HelIo, I personally recently raised $1.2M seed investment for my own startup after one year of networking events, startup competitions and pitch sessions. Today I work for a network of 800 US Family Offices as external advisor. We are looking to invest in US based companies for series A,B,C round...
I echo the answers already given - but add that the skills in most short supply today are an understanding of data and analytics and how to tie these into the customer journey. Educate yourself using Avinask Kaushik's blog and newsletter. He wrote this blog post and it's invaluable as a starter...
By far, it is managing cash flow. You need to be VERY good at it. There is an extremely fine balance between the speed you can invest and the speed at which you get new customers (i.e. revenue). And it is very easy to tip it of one way or another. If you are too risk averse, you will not invest...
If you are US based, there are some nonprofit organizations that can help you connect with the right people. Two off the top of my head are: SCORE (https://www.score.org/) and SBDC (http://americassbdc.org/). Uncle Sam loves small business because they help build roads and stuff so this advice i...
A few thoughts. 1) Get a diverse group (geo + backgrounds) to use it. 2) Invite people to use your product in person (on their laptops), 3) Measure the impact using www.survey.io – iterate and fix all the user flows.
Mine. :-) Seriously: The two mistakes I see with people and blogs is (a) spending too much time reading instead of doing, and (b) reading blogs which don't align with their own business, and therefore the advice therein isn't necessarily good FOR THEM (even if awesome for others!), and theref...
Since part of a reason you have people donating money is either they believe in your story or mission or they want to be a part of what you are making. So getting a well known actor involved and utilizing him in any capacity would help you achieve your goal. Also placing your video pitch in well ...
Apple will allow a developer to register 100 UDID devices per 12 month cycle to test via TestFlight or HockeyApp. Having started with TestFlight, I would really encourage you NOT to use it, and go directly to HockeyApp. HockeyApp is a much better product. There is also enterprise distribution ...
You can read the listed books but it will not help you to start your startup 1. Zero to One. 2. The Lean Startup. 3. The Startup Owner's Manual. 4. Founders at Work 5. Crossing the Chasm 6. 100$ startup 7. Never Too Late to Startup What you need is a market and start-up capital and not some i...
Hi, I have used Python in my software developer experience for system automation and IOT projects. Primarily python is a scripting language (like ruby and javascript) in that it runs through a compiler(ish) at runtime. It is a highly dynamic language and does not require strict typing for basic t...