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What do you think about the co-founder app? 
I recently came across the app through LinkedIn

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I don’t have a friend or colleague who can be my cofounder for my Commerce startup idea. 

How do people find their co founder these days?

How to find a cofounder

Analyst

i am looking to give entrepreneurship a shot. best way to find a Co-founder??

best place to find a Co-founder

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Hi all GVs,

I recently got into no code. Long story shoet I ended up pulling three all nighters and created an MVP. Would love your feedback (roast welcome !)

Here is the MVP: www.ideaflo.in

cheers 🔥

Created an app to validate ideas in a community

Product Manager

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Got an idea to build a social networking app for people to tackle loneliness and find friends easily. We can take this forward in the comments section:)

Looking for Co-founders

Customer Success

Hey Guys 
Currently I am in my pre final year of my college (IIT) and had done 4 good pm interns and looking forward to launch my startup. Like I have Built the MVP after doing a bit of market and user research.

Can you help me in making my initial team . Like what factors to look and how to onboard co founders , feels difficult to build alone

Startup

Growth Manager

Why people have to resort to such cheap tactics? 🥲

Baba ramdev tech version 🫡

100 likes and I am going to breakdown both his products. Find issues and reply to his LinkedIn post and tell him to hire someone to fix his shit

As a founder, what's your craziest dating story on Tinder/Bumble/Hinge etc. 

I've spoken to a lot of founders who get 
- Resumes in their DM's 
- Follow up messages for job applications (God knows how 🫠) 
- Enquiries for FT positions 
- Get subtle questions to know if they are hiring 

Is this a very common thing amongst founders?

Are you a founder actively using dating apps?

Just saw this entrepreneur bootcamp program by Inc42

Thoughts?

Generalist

I am a fresher 2023 graduate and have been doing this (applying for jobs) for almost a year, everyone said you have to do internships as it is necessary so did 2 internships one for a year and another for 6 months but apparently no one counts internships as experience even jobs that had 1-3 yoe as requirement and now everyone's hiring 2024 grads as freshers (I tried to look for another internship but there were none during the time of placements).

I am now tired of this field, many full stack devs don't know shit outside Javascript world and many of them can't even use tools like git properly and are so cocky of themselves. 

Saw an SDE on twitter who apparently has 6 years of experience, doesn't even know how to configure multiple SSH and says managing multiple ssh is a downside. A women dev (cause in India you have engineers and female engineers apparently) doesn't know about sidebar cache and calls it a bug and she's in google. and If I try to roast these people with my real name there's a whole cabal of Banglorians who will grab their macbooks inside third wave coffee and start tweeting against me after aggressively drinking their Chocolate mocha frappe.

Just go into any random tech twitter space no one seems to be talking about tech it's always about DSA, interviews, LIFE IN BANGLORE, which cafe they visited.

I let myself believe tech was my passion and worked hard  for but Indian techies and companies are worst, this generation thinks they are better than their predecessor but follow the same politics everywhere even when it comes to Tech communities (who tf does politics in a community that produces open source code wtf).

They talk about networking and creating a community all the time but can't even respond to linkedin cold dm and blame the sender by nitpicking about the format 👏👏 and then they'll go on post the screenshot and rant how it's the sender fault to even try to network with them with a message that isn't written from their own blood.

Tech rant

Bangalore tech scene is weird man. I feel even the auto driver knows how to code and the third wave barista is definitely doing leetcode because that coffee & sandwich clearly don't take 15 minutes to make

Founder

Team is less than 10 people still, slowly growing. Net profit could be higher, that's top priority to work on now. Total cash invested by founders was 15L over 3-4 years.

Yearly revenue :

2019 - less than 30k 
20 - 1.5L (after pivot)
22 - 50L

Getting to the first lakh and then to 10 lakhs was probably the most challenging part.

We thought of shutting down multiple times, struggled through multiple fights between founders. Glad we didn't stop working and pulled through.

This is my 4th or 5th attempt at starting up. Except for 1, other attempts didn't even get to incorporation stage.

Would love to hear from other bootstrappers and their experience.

Personal milestone: 1Cr in rev as a bootstrapper

We’re at about $400K bootstrapped with a team of 2 (me included), started in 2019. Revenue almost doubled in last 18 months. 
  
 My personal observation is that if you’re going to bootstrap, you need to go after high margin, niche markets (unless you’re doing services) because you don’t have a lot of money for marketing. 
  
 Our main growth channel is affiliates and SEO. Growth will be slow so we just have to keep at it. Also, beware of VC-funded competitors.

As a non technical founder, i can go as far as prototyping an app on figma, or make detailed wireframes of what I want the app to be. Right now, after months of brainstorming and research, I would say I have a pretty good idea of what i want the app to be and what the functions of the app are. But I'm new to the startup world, and I'm at a stage where I'm supposed to choose one of the three options with their own pros and cons:
1. Find a technical cofounder for full stack development.
         It's very difficult to find someone with the same mindset and vision as me, but if I do, then this can be the best solution out of the three.

2. Learn either front end or back end or both.
         It's very time consuming especially when I'm in my final year of my bachelor's and doesn't really make sense (as advised by another founder of a pretty big startup)

3. Outsourcing dev.
        Lack of funding, IP issues, and communication gaps. 

It would be great if someone who's already in the startup world to guide me with this or give me advise on what next step for me would be the most beneficial.

How advisable is it to outsource full stack development if you're a solo founder?

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 ?

So stable money is just another fintech platform where basically you can do FD from various banks and corporates.

This concept isn't new, other apps and websites offer the same as well.

Weirdly, everyone is posting about it on LinkedIn & Twitter. I can see that stable money is giving merch to them but are these people getting merch just to post a positive review? Anyone has insider news?

Why everyone is posting about "Stable Money" ?

Came across this program by Inc42 called FoundersX. Any one aware about the program?

FoundersX by Inc 42

Project Manager

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

1. LinkedIn: connection request never gets accepted
2. Email: Hard to find emails, have used various email finding tools

How to connect with founders?

Software Developer

Which one is better for someone without an idea but highly interested in starting up?

Entrepreneur First VS Antler Residency

Saw this on Twitter today, found this interesting and loved the idea. 

The app is named - Jamm. A members-only social network that helps you meet all kinds of people over fun activities IRL. Tagline - ‘Never Have Another Boring Week’.

The idea behind this as per founder (Able Joseph) is to improve the social health/life of its members. The more like-minded the community, the nicer its interactions will be. 


Here’s how it works.
- Apply for membership
- Once accepted, pick an activity (board games, bike rides, etc.) and post a Jamm
- Receive requests from other members who are interested to be a part of your Jamm
- Curate the people you wish to bring together
- Coordinate with the Jammers on group chat
- Meet them IRL and have a good time

Interesting to see how they’ll be solving security challenges associated with meeting people. Also, I guess this could also turn out to be a hookup app.

What you guys think? 

Bengaluru peeps here - Have you used this yet?

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Came across this interesting startup - Jamm. A members-only social network