@givenallthings 1) If you have a million, always assume you have half that to deploy. Other half is for project over-runs.
2) All problems of startups are: money & people problems.
3) Dont hire new people for 45-60 days. Hire Slow, Fire fast. Take your time. Expect bad hiring decisions. Better...
@rtljs26 1) Geographically, be where your early adopters are.
2) 'Early Adopters', need not fit one to one with customers' persona.
3) San Francisco or Cambridge, MA. Density of early Adopters is high thereby decreasing the CAC. New York included.
4) Early stage is a clear value judgement on...
@faithlife We have done contracting work in the past. Building an MVP for others, including from elite colleges, mit, harvard, stanford can be a pain if they don't have means to pay eventually, which isn't known at the beginning.
@vanillasunflowers On the same issue, how many shares have to be outstanding so that franchise tax is just $400 a year as opposed to $25,000 a year for a Delaware C-corp?
Someone can throw light on delaware c-corp incorporation and tax filing.
@poena B2C projects fail 10X to 100x more times than B2B projects
Non-Tech co-founders fail lot more than tech co-founders.
Co-founders who don't talk to customers before building anything fail lot more than Cofounders who talk to customers everyday.
1) Do B2B
2) Do SAAS
3) Spend all your...