It may be your messaging. Do you have current clients? If so, ask them what they like about working with you. That is the message you should use to go to the market. I have several clients where I gave them that challenge, go ask your best clients why they work with you. When they heard the me...
If you are early stage then you need two things: an accountant and accounting software. When it comes to finding an accountant, find someone who understands your area of business. Most firms will meet once or twice to get a feel for your needs. In my experience, good accountants will tell you ou...
1) Change bank 2) Stop doing money laundering or giving them suspicions of doing so by avoiding excessive cash deposits/withdrawals or having periods of large movement and then no movement (these are triggers) 3) Have a good relation with your banker 4) If they ask you for nature of your business...
When the cost to acquire each additional paid user: -is less than the prior user you are in viral growth. -is equal to the prior user you are growing. -is more that the prior user than you are starting to reach maturity (but possibly not there yet). -is equal to what you are willing to pay then...
The best way to go--by far-- is to use a Grunt Fund. A Grunt Fund is a dynamic equity split model designed to provide a perfectly fair equity split for founders of bootstrapped companies. It will tell you exactly how much you and your partner and later partners and employees deserve. It's based o...
Quick summary answer: You must promote this using direct mail to businesses who are in the right geographic region to take advantage. Buy or rent lists from: Chamber of commerce, local business association, local council rates payers etc. Also find organizations that have mailing lists and agre...
Use a web based survey tool like http://surveymonkey.com Post a link to the survey in employee groups like this one: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2262123080/
First: I like the website but the friction you create with the email sign up is crazy. Be careful with it and measure the conversion between people visiting the site/sign ups. If the friction is too high there may be a problem. On which strategy to take, I think if you are asking yourself about ...
It's good that you know what you want, but I expect that here you will be constrained by the market. I've been involved in startups a long time, and I have honestly never of a developer who is not only being asked to work for no salary, but to buy in with cash. You may see it as "giving away equi...
One way may be to tap into local law students (or those working on an LLM in IP)