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Early on, most startups focus on the metrics they believe matter most. Traffic. Signups. Revenue. Retention. But sometimes customers keep talking about something that isn't even being tracked. It might be response times, onboarding friction, reliability, communication, or something completely unexpected. The interesting part is that these things can have a bigger impact on customer satisfaction and retention than the metrics founders spend most of their time watching. Looking back, what ...

​ Hello everybody. I am requesting advice regarding how to handle equity ownership in our startup. We are 4 people working on this project and my friend and i are the developers. Then we have the 2 other people who are working on business, branding, marketing etc. basicly they are the business part of it and how we can monetise it, design etc. They essentially are the idea and the vision behind it. What i am For context: My friend and i ( developers ) met these 2 last summer and t...

Hey everyone My team built an AI agent QA platform. Quick summary: It generates synthetic prospects across multiple personality types, runs real conversations with AI agents (chat or email), and evaluates every transcript across six dimensions. The scoring rubrics are built from real sales and industry experience across seven verticals. You get a full breakdown of where your agent fails with ways to fix it. We have different pricing tiers and have been building for a while now. Honestly the...

What founders do after selling or building a company? Do they start a new company? Or they retire? What you will do after building or selling your company? As a founder I'll probably start a new company with even bigger goal than previous. What you will do?

I'm a first-time founder, and I recently hired my first employee. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a pretty bad experience, mostly because of poor communication and a lack of alignment on expectations. It made me realize that building a company is a completely different skill from building a product. I'm comfortable building software, but managing people, creating processes, and running a remote team are all new to me. I feel like there are a lot of things I don't even know that I should be ...

Let's take a hypothetical situation in which some big shot (Stanford-educated, VP at some large company) wants to get on board at your startup because they see the potential. How do you find out if they're the type that comes in, brings their buddies, steers the relationships between the founders and eventually takes over your company? Sort of an activist investor? I can easily imagine such people targeting young/inexperienced founders who're not fully aware of what happens when money starts f...

Let's take a hypothetical situation in which some big shot (Stanford-educated, VP at some large company) wants to get on board at your startup because they see the potential. How do you find out if they're the type that comes in, brings their buddies, steers the relationships between the founders and eventually takes over your company? Sort of an activist investor? I can easily imagine such people targeting young/inexperienced founders who're not fully aware of what happens after money start f...

A friend recently reached out to me about joining a startup that he is launching. He has been at it for a few months and so far it is just him. There is a term sheet with some investors and he will be likely closing soon. He would like to bring me on as founding engineer (equity post-dilution from this deal). The offer is an ok base salary (which he will also take) plus the seemingly standard equity of somewhere between 1-2% (he has well over 50%). Maybe I just do not understand these sorts of p...

Honestly, I know I've been stupid with this. Dunno why I've stuck around so long. I got a job in 2020 working as an intern. I was freshly out of trade school for marketing, graduated with a certificate with distinction, and needed a remote gig due to home issues. The CEO himself hired me, and I reported to him. Within a couple of weeks, I was directing staff who had been there for years. It was for a B2B tech company in a space I hadn't worked before, but I grew up around. Within 3 months, t...

I spent the last few weeks looking into tech launches that blew up on X. ( I also researched and saw these companies implementing the same strategy on linkedin) surprisingly these just got some high impressions but there were also some which sold products and had founders talking about booking calls from their launch here is what I found how they work Tbh its never the video itself that does it. the video is like 20% of the outcome maybe. but what actually drives the numbers is a coord...

Probably a mistake, but during interviews I've been claiming that I'm not longer working on my own startup since I was under the assumption that companies probably would not want to hire somebody who is not 100% focused on the role they're hired for. I recently ended up getting an offer, but now I'm in a bit of a dilemma. Because our product is a consumer product, and we are actively advertising right now and will eventually be doing a crowdfunding campaign, there's a good chance that someone wi...

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Hi HN, Nick here. We’re launching OpenKnowledge ( https://openknowledge.ai/ ), a “what you see is what you get” markdown editor that has direct integrations with Claude, Codex, and Cursor. Available as MacOS app or CLI. Fully free/local and OSS ( https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge ). We built this because we wanted a “Google docs” like experience for writing and sharing markdown files across our team. Obsidian is the best alternative we tried, but found it doesn’t have a true “what you see...

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