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Had a fun time chatting about building products and teams with @HarryStebbings on @twentyminutevc. Full podcast: https://t.co/9vB3BTPMO3 Also available on Spotify and all your favorite podcast apps. Thanks for the opportunity, Harry! https://t.co/Bk0QeTafDA

Our little team is super excited to see @andi_search featured in the This Week at YC newsletter this week! Thanks heaps for the shoutout @ycombinator 🙏 🙌 😍 https://t.co/TAFVfi7hF7 https://t.co/FjEQ1uigdB

Seek advise on raising smaller amounts (500k or less)

We have a game with good growth and sales (600k in sales about 100 new players a month without marketing). We survived the NFT crash (our game accepts crypto) and we have a second game being played and enjoyed in beta. We want to raise 500k for 20%, and would accept 250k, but after 6 months, there is no interest. The half-dozen VCs who have met with us want to give us two million or more and seem turned off by our small offer and current situation. We need money to complete the features for our main game and to take advantage of our second game. We need to hire a new backend developer and someone to handle B2B relationships, which is a vital part of our second game. I intend, next week, to reach out to small business groups for advice. Maybe start to email VC again. Any thoughts on locating investors interested in smaller investments or ideas on what turns off a bigger VC from "slumming it" with our lower entry point?

Help in finding PMF

I work for a company that has developed an on-demand interview platform which specializes in taking technical interviews. The problems we are trying to solve is : 1. Reduce the hiring time taken for an engineering position 2. Increase the company’s engineering bandwidth 3. Reduce biases in the interview process We are currently in the process of expanding our market and would like to hear from HR’s and Engineer leaders in the USA if these are pain points from your perspective and how you guys feel about outsourcing your technical rounds to companies like ours.

Best places to create a beta tester community for my app?

I'm looking to create a small community of our most engaged users to provide feedback and be part of the product process. My idea here is to share designs/wireframes ahead of time to get real-time feedback. Our customer base is largely in the 25-35 range, so I was actually thinking of creating a private instagram page that they can follow. Through this we can create posts or stories that show new designs and ask very basic questions. The Instagram stories allow for polls and free response answers to questions, as well as a platform for us to provide video responses to any questions we get. We've considered other platforms like Facebook groups, reddit, discord, slack, but those aren't where our customers spend a lot of time already - that's how we got to the Instagram idea, even though it's really not intended for this use case. Any other ideas that may be better than a private instagram account?

I’m excited to announce that REGENT has taken flight! 🛫 We combined the benefits from ground effect flight, distributed electric propulsion, and hydrofoiling into a single platform: the seaglider Which will massively improve convenience & affordability of regional travel 🧵👇 https://t.co/SSiIRpZwCx

I can check your website for acessibillity & costumer journey.

I've developed a new methodology to help B2B startups busting their website into their market nich. please let me know if you have any suggestions and other ideas for this issue. thanks you'll 👍😉 please leave your URL in the comments if you are interested.

Engineering goods’ exports on the rise! India’s exports of engineering goods witnessed a stupendous growth of 158% in April-August 2022 as over the same period in 2013. The Engineering Export Promotion Council has played a pivotal role in boosting our engineering exports. https://t.co/nyOcIPC42t

Congrats to the @gigstel team on the Series A! Gigs (YC W21) makes it easy for any company to sell phone and data plans as part of their own branded mobile network subscriptions: https://t.co/eNcx75xcC1

Ms Aastha Grover, head, Startup India at the Swachhata Startup Conclave panel discussion ‘Manthan’ organised by MoHUA, highlighting the benefits of the Startup India scheme https://t.co/fRVGc8FNlU

Ideas turn into reality when guided with great support. ​ Startup India platform helps you explore schemes & policies to empower your entrepreneurial journey.​ Know more: https://t.co/w5KIInnVDu #StartupIndia #StartupIndiaPortal #Entrepreneurship #Entrepreneurs #Startup https://t.co/pBlIfLJn4M

Congrats to the team @BeNobleHQ on the launch and Series A! Noble (YC W21) enables companies to build, launch and scale custom credit solutions like credit cards and buy now, pay later services for their customers, with just a few lines of code: https://t.co/iz23N9wSQC

Software engineer looking to contribute to an interesting project.

Not sure if these kind of posts are allowed, so sorry in advance if they are not. I am a software engineer with focus on Frontend development and data analysis who is looking to work on an interesting project. I am not looking for any monetary gain really but rather find something interesting to work on during some of my free time. So if you are in need for a FE engineer feel free to DM me.

Startup newbie: Creating a Founders Agreement.

TLDR: Early stage startup. Looking for a template for Founders Agreement. We're a Digital Services and Brand Advisory firm in an early stage. Have two partners and have just started making client pitches. Idea is to go full throttle from Oct 22 with a period of 6 months as trial. We will incorporate, rent office space etc once we sign up our first clients. We're stuck at coming to an agreement on work share, roles and equity. On a bare bones coat model now. What would be your recommendations for resources to internal create a Founders Agreement.

The new Energy Bill Relief Scheme will cut energy prices for businesses, charities and public-sector organisations such as schools and hospitals. The scheme will run for 6 months covering energy used from 1 October 2022 to 31 March 2023. Find out more 👇