Product Manager

You cannot plan your startup. 
 If you area first gen entrepreneur, then startingup is like committing suicide - meaning, it's a spontaneous decision. If you plan it -like will do it six months from now, it will never happen.  You decide suddenly, a overflow of emotions and you jump into.

Consultant

i am also thinking the same since childhood.  but BC abhi tak job kar raha hu... lets connect.. chalo kuch karte h

Since childhood, I've always had the mindset to start my very own business. I have a lot of ideas to work on. Just don't know how to start communicating it with others, and how can I meet likeminde...

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Since childhood, I've always had the mindset to start my very own business. I have a lot of ideas to work on. Just don't know how to start communicating it with others, and how can I meet like-minded people?

Tell me if you've had the same experience and how you went with it?

How To Start a Business

How To Start a Business- Grapevine

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I have a few ideas for products I want to build in few niche spaces. At the same time I’m always a bit skeptic in discussing this with friends thinking they might ask for too much equity in partnership

The downside is that I feel I have to know everything to even get started

How did you do it? If you built your startup, at what point in your life while working full time you started working your own thing and how was the journey like?

Any tips you’d give a budding entrepreneur

How’d you get started?

Software Engineer

Tell me best ideas to start own company

System Engineer

To be very honest I feel very frustrated looking at the situation right now. Companies are laying off without worrying about the employees. It's just corporate profits everywhere.

I am scared to death that my career won't last long than 20 years because the moment these folks think you are becoming a financial burden on them, they'll lay you off.

I don't want to live my life in a constant war mode. The Indian education system has bruised my personality for a long time. I want to relax but looking at this battlefield I can never.

My weekends are spent worrying about planning for finances in case I get laid off. I am worried I won't be able to buy a house.

This shit is depressing me very much. Other folks please tell me how are you navigating this mess?

Soulless Corporations

Mandatory : keep on up skilling 
 Optional :  go outside India or move to operational roles(as it doesn't need creativity bone)  
  
 In your 30's you shouldn't explore stuff, stick with one domain(example : digital marketer) be the SME. In 40s you'll have 10+ years experience of a domain, and you're part of that domains evolution  
  
 No one wil have the know how you gained in 10 years

Program Manager

I want to start my own startup . Want to connect with same mindset people

Software Developer

Let's say you want to start a start up like a scalar academy.

How would you go about it?
Will you do marketing first to bring in customers or register as a company?
Start hiring people or spend on ads?

Just curious to know how people start up, and what's their first step.

Please share your insights, it might help someone start later on.

Thanks for the input

How to start a startup?

Im working as a developer in a unicorn startup with good salary for my age. But from college time I was interested in entrepreneurship trying different thing and later after completing college I joined this unicorn and worked hard, shifted to their new stealth startup and worked there with for 1yr, tried to work in every possible opportunity that I got with design team, product managers and learnt how to build a startup from scratch, but later due to creative issues in top level management and less revenue than the competitors the startup was shutdown and I was moved back to the unicorn and again started working as an developer. Tried different things from then 

1. Tried joining top B schools but couldn’t afford
2. Tired pitching ideas to friends, seems like no one interested in taking risk leaving the life they have now
3. Tried starting few things on my own but always end up failing with no support 
4. Tried attending conferences but that too never led me anywhere

Now don’t have as many friends interested in entrepreneurship or mentors to guide me. Just passing the days doing the same work again and again

please suggest me what to do next or give me any kind of advice

Need advice - please help 🥲

1. I am having a strong problem statement, which is thoroughly validated, along with a business plan, but I am not working or starting it as I lack confidence because I don't have a team in place.

( I am an IIM graduate and currently a product manager - giving these details just to get a sense of my background, which might help in the type of suggestions from your side).


2. How can I find a co-founder/partner/core team member? Please advise me on where to look for co-founders or people that share a similar mindset. 
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Please help me to navigate through this situation. Thanks in Advance 🙏

Need Advice - How to begin working on a Idea/Startup ?

1. Novel/new business idea 
2. Degrees/MBAs
3. Experience/reputation
4. Money (hardly 20-30k to register company)
5. CTO
6. Employees/Co-founders
7. External investment
8. Website/app
9. Social media accounts
10. Office location (register home as office)

Far too many people focus on needing xyz before starting up. Most of them are excuses and self-imposed roadblocks from what I've seen in my conversations with people.

I'm currently working on 2 ventures that still have many items missing from this list. Doesn't really stop me from making revenue and profit.

Sure, there may be some things required from this list for specific businesses and at diff stages. But they are mostly an extra, good to have but not required.

What is required in copious amounts is courage and will power, willingness to face rejections and ability to withstand multiple failures only to get back up and try again. Also, a healthy enough risk appetite.

I hope to see more young and talented folks (especially MBA grads) start their own thing some day. Best time is in your twenties and early thirties, when you have little to lose. 

If you have any business ideas you want help with, I'd be happy to discuss and share contacts and resources if required.

Good luck soldiers, see you in the arena 🪖

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Product Owner

What is the best way to start your own company with no money?

What is the best way to start?

I have a startup idea to start a community service. The idea is to help people who don't want to marry under their parents or societal pressure. The service will provide counseling to parents, normalize singlehood, mediator between the customer and everyone involved. The service can be extended to almost anything aligning with this. 
The idea is that not many people can provide good arguments in their favour or just don't want to put their views. We will have the best and brightest people to provide support with expertise on psychology, societal behavior, debate etc. The idea could be totally ridiculous but I want to know the community's thoughts on this. Go on. Roast me if you feel like.

Startup idea to create community support for people who don't want to marry

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I started in FAANG about 7 years ago(first job out of college). Went to USA for a brief period of 1.5 years. I have saved up around 6-7cr and have a total CTC of 1.2-1.3cr

All this is amazing but I am not happy. Job is bleh with everyone I have met trying to press their own agenda. Growth in terms of promotions is slow and with economy like this, you can be fired anytime. 

I have been having trouble sleeping and it’s not been easy. Have tried therapy but it’s not helping. Maybe I need sabbatical as I burnt out

Advice

Building a business is all about addressing challenges. Can you share the top 5 problems you are currently facing that you would like to resolve?

Analyst

Having worked in IT as a developer and other tech roles, I am having a feeling of how long I am going to do the same and keep grinding myself for someone else’s businesses to grow.

I personally feel from childhood I would enjoy and love to do something of my own but I am so confused and have not much idea on what to start and from where to start.

Feels stuck somewhere and actually I am doing nothing.

Any suggestions?

Wish to start something of my own

Hi, I am new on this app and I have come on this with a motive to do something. I am thinking of starting my own startup and if anyone who want to start his career comment below. I don't have any plan and ideas , join me and then we can discuss and start everything from scratch.
I may not be able to pay you and will not promise that I cant fulfill in the starting but  I promise if the startup succeeded you will also grow.

Thinking for Starting a startup

When i was in college i wanted to build my own company/product. Thought of many ideas and tried to build something. None of them worked and it affected my studies so I had to quit just to clear my exams.

After college I took placements in a WITCH like company where I got put into data entry/operations job after clearing difficult coding interviews (kismat kharab?). 
Somehow learnt new technologies on the side and managed to switch to a development role at a lower salary in a startup.

After 3 years Worked hard on DSA and (barely) managed to get a good offer with above average pay. But the company is not stable anymore and may layoff at any time. 
Right now struggling to learn enough DSA to crack any company.
Now I am almost 30, i have no hobbies,no talents, no relationships just trying to have a stable career.

I see people everywhere doing so many things at once. How do they manage to do this.
They are working at FAANG and managing businesses at the same time, have a bunch of friends.
What am I doing wrong?

Just a long rant about life

It is just luck + hardwork man. Work harder at everything and you will get there.

Growth Manager

Hello!
I'm a resident of Bengaluru, looking for business/ franchise or dealership opportunities. 
Any leads please?

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I am thinking of doing a startup . I have good business acumen however I am struggling with the idea of getting the first 100 customers . Those who started a business , can you help with some insights please

I'm 22 and want to start life on my own terms by leaving family business and want to do something on my own. 
I don't know how can I begin a new journey for my life. 
Any suggestions??

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