I started keeping track of co-working spaces in the SF Bay Area and then started sharing it with friends.https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=z9WK9ogceWic.kTRVsPgndUasI'd like to open it up for others to contribute to. There's different Layers for different cities, and then just drop in a pin with the co-working space's name, address, and URL.
I run an early stage startup and I have my first employee coming on who's working for peanuts. I want to do right by him and give him a chunk of equity but don't have the $'s to make him an official employee where I suspect I'll have to deal with health benefits, payroll, etc.How though, can I put in writing that as of x date, he starts a 4 year vest of x% of outstanding shares in a way that's...
Right now, though I have an MVP-plus, a lot of the work that's being done is being done manually (e.g, analysis, report creation/generation, etc.). If I want to scale and get beyond a handful of beta-customers, I need to automate those processes. I've analyzed what it would take, and it's something that's out of my range to boot-strap. If I don't automate, or even partially automate, I'm going to be stuck with a handful of customers. With automation, I can add dozens, if not hundreds of customers.
Secondly, not only are some of my customers asking for a whole new incremental feature set, but I see the market ripe for the picking. In order to develop these new features, it'll require a new wave of development (for mobile) that I also can't self-fund.
Outside money would help in both of these, allowing me to move beyond perpetually having a few customers to growing this venture into a growing business.
You mean demo even though it's in advanced stage?
Throwaway.I don't know how to raise money.What's a first time entrepreneur with a solid technical & business background, tons of experience, a working product in the hands of soon-to-be-paying B2B customers supposed to do to get started raising money?I have a MVP plus product, a handful of beta B2B customers--some decent brand names--and some that will probably convert to paying customers...