If you need funding for your business one way or another then I don't see anything being wrong with having your client on board as an investor. Not only do they already know about your business, therefore saving you a fair bit of time and effort that you'd otherwise put into pitching your busine...
The most powerful element of your brand in the early-stage of your startup is your reputation. Every interaction you have can positively build (or negatively impact) your brand. This can't be bought, but can be easily lost. Common ways I've seen start-ups lose their reputation early: 1) Not l...
The conventional wisdom is to create a minimum viable product (MVP), release it, get customer feedback, use that feedback to improve the product, release again, get more feedback and so on. In terms of releasing to a closed user group, that is fine but when you launch a new website you're probab...
I'm going to be making some assumptions with the hope that my answer will be helpful to you (if the assumptions are correct) and others. 1. Make sure YOU are "running" all marketing. By this I mean that those you hire should be following your strategy - not creating it. They should be communicat...
10% of the total monthly sales churning on an absolute basis is near fatal. That means that within 5 months, you have 50% absolute churn per year, which reveals fundamental flaws with the service itself. Anything above small single digit churn is telling you and your team that customers are not...
First I'm lot a tax attorney or even know anything about Malaysian tax law. I'm however a person that has moved around a lot and have encounter this situation before. You will must likely have to declare your US income in your home country. However some local tax laws allow for a deduction of fo...
I've been where you're at *multiple* times. The advice I gave myself was to throw my arms up and just get a job and focus on being better at developing software, the act of coding, since thats what me/you are "passionate" about. If you want a business though, you have to first ask yourself, "Wh...
I am not a lawyer and am not giving you professional advice here. Merely discussing the topic. I see what they are getting from you...but what are you getting from them? You lose control...they get your expertise...you can be booted out at any time thereafter. I don't see the upside. If they ...
I've seen or been involved with a few projects in the past few years that aimed to entice developers to work on premium domains in exchange for equity. That rarely if ever works. Developers have too many gigs that pay them quite comfortably. If they wanted to make sacrifices, they'd probably e...
Online coaching is a great space right now, and I'm glad to see someone with real-world coaching experience making the shift. The agency I started worked primarily in the fitness industry, and I helped plan, market, design, and build over 300 websites for personal trainers, gyms, and online coa...