Please help my dumb ass out. I was given advice on my startup but I'm un clear on what exactly they meant

Please help my dumb ass out. I was given advice on my startup but I'm un clear on what exactly they meant.

Here is there advice.

1.) "You'll need someone who specializes in backend marketing, facebook marketing, instagram marketing, google adwords, SEO, and the actual budget to get sales. Every single one of those platforms is vastly different."


I believe someone like him is what he meant?

upwork.com/fl/gallm


2.) "Next, you'll need someone who knows everything about ecommerce. These guys don't work for cheap or for equity. They are consultants who will get you results and optimize the sales funnel on your website to get you actual sales."


I'm not sure what he means by "you'll need someone who know everything about ecommerce", what is this job title called? Where can I find an "eccomerce expert"?


Somebody like these two? If so which one?


upwork.com/fl/michaelr104

upwork.com/fl/juliee5
3.) "You need to fire everyone involved with the video and marketing, hire a CTO who can build you an app and a web platform on equity,"


I believe he qualifies.

upwork.com/freelancers/~0148809cfdb8b3a2e5


4.) "get a biz dev guy with experience in manufacturing and scaling a company, and for gods sakes try and find someone who has actually built a successful business in the past."


Not sure if this is what he meant but he seems like he could coach us.

upwork.com/fl/alanhochman

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Anyone?

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Where did you get your funding? I also got startup money but no idea how to proceed lol

OP I am going to just tell you, that advice is bullshit. Don't just listen to individuals on the internet, there is no reason to trust them. You should be looking for established, authoritative, objective sources of reliable information to base your decisions. Look at the most successful startup companies in real life, and study them. Why did Amazon succeed? Apple? Microsoft? Facebook? They were all startups. Study them and make observations. Good luck.

Idk I just explained to everyone my idea and it made a lot of sense, to be honest I have no idea how I got so much in the beginning when I had nothing to show. I got like $40k.

There was some truth to it, my team is much stronger now. There was also a lot else advised to me in the thread. But yes your also right. Check out my startup if you want. I'm going to be adding a lot more stuff to it but this what it is atm.

trello.com/b/Y1KRSwSh/for-investors

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Monitoring this thread.
I have an idea that's worth $10M per year in my shithole country alone.
Scared to try get it started because it's software and I can't write code for shit.
Got nothing else to do rn so was gonna spend time learning code but I'm worried someone else will beat me to it.

If your idea is any good I can get someone to do it for equity.

But yeah you will never learn code in time.. Leave it to the pros.

Your idea is less important than your ability to execute future ideas. Practice, it's ok to fail. Fail full steam until you fail to fail.

there is literally no way you can afford to hire or consult with even one of those types of people with only $40k.that advice would make more sense if you had $1-2 million to throw at this.


even an experienced founder would have trouble getting a team that strong together. this advice is basically "pay the best people to do it for you" when you very clearly cannot afford those people.

and looking on upwork? you know the only people who work on there are people who aren't good enough to make it off referrals alone, right? is this a joke?

Not true at all. There is a lot of shit on there but there is also some diamonds.

Youtube. Theres a YouTube video on how to do everything. If you feel some type of way about YouTube then hooktube works too

I can hire the people listed most will work on equity alone.

user, checked the Trello, not sure exactly what the product does/offers.

It seems the feedback you had would from investors suggest you are missing....almost everything apart from the idea/concept and perhaps you are lacking experience in go-to-market.

So really, investors are not who you should be speaking to at this stage.

My advice is to find an Incubator/Accelerator. These are specialist companies who provide a smaller amount of investment (e.g. $50k) but also find you with the people you need as well as experienced mentors in your market.

They are designed for people with great ideas that need a lot of support/help executing.

This is a very successful one we have in Europe:

rocketspace.com/accelerators/startups

There are many in the US as well, shop around.

Great, thanks. I'll check it out.

Also what am I missing in my pitch?

Nobody wants purely equity in a startup. They need a salary + equity.

For real?
It's essentially SaaS for IoT but I presume I'd need somebody who knows their way around SQL too.
This is actually unlikely to be profitable for a few years but if I'm first to market this will be retire early big.

user, trello is not the best format for a pitch and you are missing a lot but don't sweat.

Check airbnb's pitch deck

slideshare.net/PitchDeckCoach/airbnb-first-pitch-deck-editable

Different structure as airbnb was disrupting an existing industry so lots of stats/numbers and comparisons on competitor service/value offering.

You are offering a completely new concept/idea - smartglove (?) so your market is the smart device/wearables industry, I'd guess.

I have people working for free or pennies on the dollar that are experts in there fields.

What's your idea?

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