Growth Manager

Business Analyst

1. Run a survey targetting your potential customers. 
  
 2. Get feedback and also mail id. 
  
 3. Give them something for free and then if it's good they will pay for it. 
  
 MvP will also be tested and u will get 1st 100 customers. 
  
 Tried and tested method. 
  
 Else run a campaign targetting keywords used by competition n get 1st 100 customers. 
  
 Bonus - Put yourself as customer and think, will u pay for services offered?

Senior Consultant

First few customers need to be manually recruited. So talk to friends, acquaintances, people in LinkedIn network. Nobody will trust an unknown brand. Slowly it will spread with word of mouth if product is good.  
 Good thing today is that if product is good it will sooner or later get traction. Social media etc channels can also be explored .

Software Engineer

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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 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- Grapevine

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?

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 ?

Product Manager

I understand if someone is asking this question, the person isn't ready. But would like to know from founders, what was your motivation ? What pushed you over from a 9-5?
Is it just taking a bet on yourself and working towards solving the problem?

When should one startup ?

I've a great idea and it's validated after talking to more than 50 founders/head of sales.

Questions -
1. What's the process of getting a domain/and checking if the domain/product name is not a brand name globally anywhere?

2. Wrt raising funding, any founders here who can throw some light on how much salaries you used to take? I am not very inclined towards bootstrapping rn.

3. What were the challenges wrt starting your website, getting it validated by running ads etc? Maybe some D2C founders can help me out here.

4. What tools did you use for your first MVP launch?

Thanks

Thinking of build my own startup. Have questions?

Want to build a AI startup. Finding it impossible as 
1) Incumbents with distribution and data will easily build AI to their products
2) I don’t have PhD to build something truly innovative.
3) For consumer space, I don’t think it’s possible to build a new device or a OS etc (Incumbents again!)

I seriously wonder how startup founders start something! Do they just BS VCs about nice ideas and raise money? Any tips *from actual founders*  will be useful

Can’t think of good startup ideas!

We have an idea but, we worry that did really fit in market or not. And how would I find actual problem that my target user facing.

How to find if our startup idea is really going to solve or not

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

If I have a startup idea as a student, how to proceed into development.

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?

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 🥲

Software Developer

How do I start 
1. To check if it's viable
2. It's in B2C space and can be extended to B2B also ( but lots of competition in B2B but not B2C due to independent small firms)
3. I am from tech background so I can handle that but the idea need operations and few domain experts
4. I will have to leave my current job since I am working in a startup, all 6 days 10+ hours. How much run away should I be sure of, before jumping full time into it.

Suggestions! I have a startup idea

This might be a lame post altogether but here I go.
I have had an idea of a product / platform since about an year it targets primarily a category of small scale localised businesses(no not grocery stores but similar nontech domain where the tech is the enabler), what I have achieved (my background is 2year exp backend engineer) in the last year is a minimum viable backend of the same and a market fit survey with about 10 local businesses (who were interested)
Now coming to block am facing right now is with business/legal formalities to actually make it official, don’t really know where to start looking for even guidance on “how to start” with those legal “stuff”.
Another thing thats equally annoying is whoever I want to make this idea happen with always seems to interested and invested at start few days and eventually they fade out with no actual output of excuse of being busy, am not really what am doing wrong here.
In my mind why I need a cofounder is to handle the frontend(this is what feel I need cofounder for).
Any advise from anyone who are willing share some of their thoughts?

Facing a mental block starting a startup

Backend Engineer

Guys please help me get new ideas for startup I am really struggling right now , if someone could guide me

Please help me

Hi All, I am thinking of starting up in a space that in very passionate about and feel I have a unique insight. I also have a cofounder who I know from a long time from college when we studied comp science

What are some common pitfalls to avoid at the early stage of an startup?

Startup pitfalls to avoid

Business Development Manager

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

Hey startup founders, who've been there and done that. Is ConsumerTech dead with all the giant social networks already taking a users' screen time? A recent YC video (tarpit idea) suggested that B2B SaaS is good, B2C is shit. 

I feel if we have to build something big in India, for the people, the threshold is really high for a social network. On the other hand, B2C SaaS is not something that people would pay for easily, making it less scalable. So, what should one go about this?

SaaS v/s Social network

Product Owner

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

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

Ideas are there. But execution is the challenge. Whatever, just share your random n genuine idea that others can work upon. Or share the idea that you scrapped.

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