Hey guys, I'm a recent entrepreneur and I wasn't involved on social media when it first started and I am overwhelmed getting on it and understanding the dynamics. IMO, It's an essential part of a business too. Wondering if anyone has any advice, been in the same position or can point me to resources of how to get up to speed.

The startup is about three months old and has two co-founders. We secured pre-seed funding and need an additional team member to handle sales and marketing. How do you decide how much equity to give this new member? Any personal experience would be valuable.
Thanks.

I am looking for help finding an entrepreneur with capital to build a new type of quantum super computer that improvises several different technologies beyond any current standards. One of them is the graser which I don't want to go to much into the designs and risk outside development. I can easily prove what I have, I need just some helpful information and I know I can find it here. It is worth your time and has military applications. 🇺🇲

I am at a point where my two current businesses can continue running on autopilot without much interference on my part other than a couple hours a week of admin work, so want to try my hand at building software as I have been learning a variety of languages over the past years.

What kind of problems do you face that a software solution could solve? If it was one single feature that you would need, what would it be?

It can be something to help you in your day to day running a business, or anything else really. Let me know and if I like the idea I will build it!

Business is simple. Not easy.
If you own a business, you are likely to fail. 9 out of 10 businesses fail, and you probably don’t want to be one of them.

As a young entrepreneur, I’ve made it a point to meet successful business owners in my state—ranging from those doing $300k/year to $5B/year. The differences in their businesses were vast, from local services to corporate conglomerates. But there was one thing they all had in common.

The ones making the least money often thought they had it all figured out. They were anxious, yes, but they had a mindset of "I already know what works and what doesn’t." They believed their business was "great" on the first try. There was just something wrong with the market. As a result, they faced many down seasons, and some are out of business now.

On the other hand, the ones who made the most money assumed they knew nothing. They respected the market, knew there were multiple ways to solve a problem, and were always listening to their customers. They didn’t assume they knew the answers—they tested everything. They were data-driven.

After many meetings with these mentors, I started asking: How often do you split test?
The ones who made the least money did the least split testing. The ones who made the most did the most split testing. In fact, the most successful ones were running dozens of tests across all areas of their business.

One mentor of mine did over 50 tests a week across all departments. His business did $300M last year. He started it 7 years ago. When I asked him how to get an outcome or if a business idea was good, he said: "Just test it."

After adopting this mindset and testing more, I stabilized my business, began seeing real growth, and started feeling in control—no more guessing what worked.

Talking to my friends with smaller businesses felt like they were gambling in a casino, while experienced entrepreneurs operated with the confidence of mastering a control panel—flipping switches knowing the outcome.

Testing is crucial because it gives you real feedback. Want to know your business idea is any good? Test it. Want to change your price? Test it. Want to improve your marketing? Test different variables and see the results. In just days, you’ll have clear answers (quickly and cheaply) instead of relying on guesswork.

Hi fellow founders,

I’m looking to gain more hands-on experience in building unit economics and performing cohort analysis, and I’d love to help your business with this in exchange for feedback.

Here’s how I can help:

• Unit Economics: I’ll help you understand your revenue per customer, identify growth levers, and uncover the metrics that can make the biggest impact on your product’s success.
• Cohort Analysis: I’ll analyze your user retention, revenue patterns, and potential growth ceilings to identify actionable insights.

What you’ll get:

• A clear breakdown of your unit economics or cohorts.
• Recommendations for improving key metrics and uncovering new growth opportunities.
• A list of hypotheses on how to implement these improvements.

Who this is for:

• Startups/business with at least 10 B2B customers or 100 B2C customers in the last 6 months.
• Founders who can share data like average check, cost per user, and retention rates etc.

If I can help you optimize your product and find new growth opportunities, that’s a win-win for both of us.

I run a small startup in the utilities industry with enough revenue to comfortably pay for myself, two engineers and two business development persons full time. Our pays are just at market average, but I do have an absolute pro-league lineup that I need to show proper appreciation of.

I'm wanting to equally incentivize everyone to lead the business to success in the form of end of year bonuses or a profit-sharing agreement. How do you think a good program should be structured?

My first thought was to do something like 15% of unlevered free cash flow divided evenly amongst all full-time employees, but since this is the first time I've ever had to think about something like this I'm looking for feedback.

hello, i'm looking for any recommendations to streamline the books. this is what the company structure/model is:

Business model: a singular entity that includes service as well as product sales/distribution.  
I. a small publishing/printing press II. artist services & fabrication. 

We are seeking a service that understands and works with e-commerce: We have multiple sources of incoming cash due to working in markets, online, and casual sales environments. Our incoming cash comes via these sources: Venmo, paypal, shopify, stripe, cashapp in addition to various other sources. A service that can assist with managing bookkeeping, payroll and taxes: We have various subcontractors on W9/1099s that we hire to assist with company operations and services. To further complicate things, the company owner works as a 1099 contractor for an art gallery, and on a W-2 contract for another art gallery. His work for each entity is a part of his own business model - to provide artist services and fabrication work. So ideally that income can be included as a part of the business.
Essentially we are seeking to streamline these needs with one service provider. Is that a feasible request?

I need some feedback and advice if this might be a viable business plan.

In my province and area; All new subdivision houses are put on rental hot water tanks. The monthly rates are quite ridiculous, upwards of $30 to $40 bucks a month. Within a few years, they could have already paid off a water heater of their own.

Most residents aren’t aware that you can get out of the rental by installing your own hot water tank and dropping off the existing tank with the rental company - they don’t tell you this, they say you need to buy it out but you can outright refuse and just send it back the closest warehouse or they will pick it up for you for $100.

My business idea is to basically target these houses and get them out of their water heater rentals and into their own water heater. I don’t have much in terms of plumbing skills and am not able to install the water heaters myself but am willing to be the guy who gets the sales and convinces homeowners on the need to buy their own and stop renting.

Any tips on making this work or do you think it could be viable for someone like me without the installation skills and just work the sales?

Hey guys,

We’re a German company building an agency that focuses on helping businesses boost productivity and streamline processes using AI and automation. Right now, we’re deciding on a name, and one option we’ve been seriously considering is Leftmind.

We liked it because it feels modern and is inspired by the idea of the “left brain”—logic, analysis, and structured thinking, which aligns with what we do. But I’ve been wondering: does it resonate with people, or could it be misunderstood?

I’d love to get some outside perspective. Does Leftmind feel professional and innovative to you? Or do you think it might come across differently than intended?

Looking forward to hearing your honest thoughts!

I ownn a 9 year drop shipping business with over.I carry on a nine year drop shipping business with over oh

186000 followers on Instagram 13000 followers on threads 15.8000 on Facebook like./ followers

Seventy eight thousand subscribers on shopify

Thirty fifteen to twenty thousand purchasers includes

Business last year to 2 years has struggled.

What is adjustifiable price for everything?

I'm 22 yearsold, my skills revolve around finance mostly. I know about ecom, amznFBA, dropshipping, private labeling, brand building, real estate rehab, taxes (love studying taxes), etc

Credit cards (helped my entire family build their credit and get 100k plus limits over all)

Web developments, mostly drag and drop like shopify, bubble, systeme, etc, I have a got a fair understanding of html+css.

I've run ads before. So I also have a good understanding of that. But never built anything sustainable with ads.

I am looking to build something that may be innovative, maybe sarounding tech, AI, and branding. Was looking into web development more recently as I'm observing that most larger companies coming out with high valuation mostly surround online tech (digitly) so it may be the best (not easiest) niche to tap. I'm not a coder either, btw).

What do you guys think I should do or start. I'm in analysis paralysis mode currently 🫠 Some people are going to tell me, "Do what got me the 100k.. (Not sustainable, I need something new.

(Edit) I forgot to mention that I'm a 7th grade dropout. I never made a focus pursuing school since I was forced to drop out at 7th grade for family reasons, and I had to travel abroad and freshly learn English from Square One. As im a dual citizen. I'm not looking to share too much. But that is helpful to understand for anyone giving me suggestions to go to college or pursue further preset education. That is not something I would do. Things im looking to accomplish unfortunately is not thought in school. I am self thought across everything I know, even the English language, as it's my second language.

(Edit2) my money is currently diversified across stocks, roth IRA, Different ETFs, including small cap, mid cap, and high cap stocks, domestic and international, I have a dedicated account for bluechip stocks too. For the most part, though, I'm liquid in a couple of HYSAs and a fidelity SPAXX. I just paid off my car loan, which was around 7k left a few weeks ago. Which is great also.

Some background, my gf’s dad hasn’t been the greatest guy to his kids, ex-wives, or people around him, but he’s always been a really hard worker. He’s worked himself up to owning a landscaping business, but recently he says he wants to put the business in my girlfriend’s name. His reasons are vague but he’s acting like it’s a really generous gesture, like later on she could potentially sell the business or run it herself, specifically to fund her way through a master’s program. I’m really hesitant on this though, he recently moved back in with his ex-wife because he lost his apartment and couldn’t afford to move, so how profitable could this business be? And could he potentially be dumping some financial problems on my gf?

I just got laid off from my job and I have always wanted to be my own boss. I have a lot of different creative skills which I think could be my business but I am having trouble deciding which skill to use. I tried looking on instagram and facebook to understand what people would be more interested in and still struggle how to start.

Do I look on other platforms for ideas? Do I create business cards and start handing it out to companies who would need creative projects from time to time? Im just stuck and not sure where to begin. I will also appreciate advice on which project would be more profitable to do and which platforms would be best to sell on.

Things I can do that could be turned as profit

• cricut crafts. Vinyl designs
• refurbishing furniture
• random crafts/decorations like flower walls, money/diaper cakes, balloon archs, etc.

Thank you for reading and hopefully helping with my post.

My wife hates sales.

Because she has the biggest misconception about it that’s out there:

“Sales means being pushy”.

My wife is not alone.

Not only because she has me, but also because millions of people have the same misconception.

But the truth couldn’t be further away from that.

Because pushy sales is neither successful nor rewarding for either side.

And unsuccessful sales is no sales.

It’s just a pain in the ass! - For both sides.

True sales is the opposite:

It’s giving prospects what they already want.

And it’s rewarding for both.

It’s

1. Listening deeply
2. Understanding what a person needs
3. Reflecting if you can offer that
4. Trying to help the persons you can with your offer
5. Trying to help the others in any other way
6. Letting those you cannot help move on with love in your heart

And believe it or not, we’ve already come to the end of my post.

Because I’ve shown you the misconception.

And I’ve shown you the solution.

If you struggle with some specific aspect of sales, please let me know in your comment.

I will try to help the first 25 who ask a specific question with my answer.

Thank you!

Hey there, looking to get a side hustle going. Nothing fancy just reselling some items I buy on Ali. Wanted to know if there is a good guide out there that people could point me to.

We have a new feature we just launched but it only activates for bots. We're looking for someone who runs a bot so we can do some 3rd party testing. Hit me up if that's you.

Hi everyone,

Posted as a comment in a different sub, but am hoping to get some advice here. I had an idea for a digital product, and did a pre-sale to validate the idea. I ended up making $11k (from 17 sales via Instagram DM) on the idea alone, before I closed the pre-sale. It is an online course, but is geared towards a certification in an industry rather than "here's how you get rich!".

Now I'm building out the product in an incredibly niche field, but I'm still having major doubts that this is a thing that nobody wants. Thinking that the pre-sales were just a fluke.

Just hoping to get some external thoughts on this, and if it is just a fluke or if I'm having imposter syndrome?

Thanks.

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• Sends carefully crafted 5-minute book summaries daily at 5:30 PM starting from 12th January

• Includes key concepts, actionable insights, and powerful quotes

• Delivered straight to your WhatsApp (no app downloads needed)

• Perfect for busy professionals who want to keep learning

Would love to hear your thoughts 🙏

I run a book summary app. I'm trying to use linked in ads to target users. Does anyone know what filters to use that will get me conversions? The app provides business and self help book summaries. Thanks!

I use ChatGPT, Claude. ai and Perplexity for my Youtube Software Review Businesses. I run OVER 20 Youtube Faceless Software Review channels, and those AI tools basically help me with ideas, titles and descriptions.

I like how simple is it to use those AI tools and crank out ideas, titles and descriptions in less than 20 minutes.

ChatGPT, Claude. ai and Perplexity save me so much time.

Managing all those Youtube channels is an all day event. I also save time by not editing and not scripting my videos. I do software reviews and I crank out 3 videos per hour.

I can use software to automate some of the videos, but they don't get the same effect, so I do every video with original content.

I'm thinking about using Elevenlabs. com so I can have access to hundreds of voices that I can use for my videos. I like their "Speech to Speech" technology.

The only problem with Elevenlabs is that I have to do some editing to make it work... and I hate editing. I rather just record my video and upload it to Youtube.

I might have to skip on Elevenlabs and the editing, because I need to crank out at least 20 videos per day.

It seems like a lot but I focus on 12 hours a day and 3 videos per hour. 12 hours times 3 videos= 36 videos per day. But I only need 20 videos in the 12 hours, so I know I can meet my quota for the day.

I'm looking at 20 videos per day times roughly 30 days is 600 videos per month. My goal is to finish the year with at least $100,000 in "CASH" after taxes, paying rent, buying food and having all my bills paid.

So, I need to make $273.97 per day times 365 days= $100,000. The most I've made was off 1 video with only 600 views and I made over $3,300.

I wasn't even monetized by Youtube. I made all that money from software commissions alone. I don't care about being monetized by Youtube what so ever.

With Youtube monetized payouts you need millions of views to make money, with software commissions ranging from 20%- 40% I don't need Youtube revenue.

I've broken my Youtube business plan down into bite sized pieces so that I know I can achieve my Goals.

CHEERS!

Has anyone ever worked with Innovate apparel for manufacturing clothing?

Hey,

I'm Frank, and I keep running into people who are fascinated by AI but don't know where to start. You know the questions: "How do you actually use it?", "Can it really help me make more money?", "How do I get past the hype and do something useful with it?"

Honestly, I love these questions. Talking about this stuff is my jam. I've always been into helping people use tech to make their lives better, and lately, I'm realizing this is turning into a mission for me. And I think it is worth doing. I would love to put together a small mastermind group where we can learn how to actually integrate AI into our businesses and daily lives.

So, if you're curious about AI and want to learn how to actually use it, not just talk about it, this might be for you.

A bit about me and why I'm doing this:

My life pretty much changed when GPT-2 came out. At first, it was just messing around with silly questions, but the more I used it, the more I realized what this thing could actually do. I started with small stuff - generating email replies when I was stressed, getting it to spit out website code - baby steps, but it blew my mind.

Now? I've got AI models (Gemini, GPT, Claude) open pretty much every waking hour. I use them for everything: copywriting, answering emails in different languages, making legal documents understandable, even building little AI agents to handle specific tasks. Instead of always delegating to my team, I often go to AI first. I treat AI as my personal extension.

I've even worked for a few startups as an AI engineer, building automations and tools for them. It's been awesome, and I want to share what I've learned. Not just the technical stuff, but how to actually think about using AI in a practical way.

About the mastermind (did I tell you it’s free?):

It'll be a small group, focused on practical use of AI, not just talking about it. I’ll cover what’s working for me and what has been working for my clients, and we can collaboratively share what we're working on, brainstorm ideas, and help each other out. Think of it as a hands-on, let's-figure-this-out-together kind of deal, with a healthy dose of networking. Also, I will prepare some topics to cover every week, so we have structured approach to this.

If you’d love to jump on the AI train, but have not done it yet, here’s your sign!

Hello everyone, I just got my bachelors degree of pharmacy recently in Iraq (kurdistan), but I have never felt so lost like this before lol, I always wanted to go to canada and work there but It just turned out that it can't work for me, so I am asking is there any pharmacy companies anywhere around the world that can hire me for a remote job? Even If I stay in kurdistan-Iraq? I also don't have any experiences with any Remote jobs,.

Hello , which country can you confidently say that it supports tech startups and young entrepreneurs in general.

I spent the first 10 years of my business being the marketer, salesman, customer service person, janitor, tech support, hiring manager, accounting department, and HR.

I've spent the last 4 years slowly replacing myself in each category.

For those who have successfully replaced themselves: what tasks do you find to be the most valuable use of your time now?

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to get some comments / advice on my current idea.

I hold an event each September to kick off the new season of my app FrightMaps. It's a ticketed event at a local farm and usually 2-300 people come. I have food trucks / vendors and a movie in the field.

My Idea:
Is it worth to get 2 small pizza ovens ( the personal use ones ) and 2 rolled ice cream machines to serve here?

The idea if plausible would be to at least break even for the equipment and supplies.

I would need some food certs though, right?

Where it extends:
I know people have mixed reviews of rolled ice cream, but I live in a college town thats pretty upscale. I either wanted to turn that equipment into a side hustle where I bring it to other events, AND OR open up a small ice cream shop with the rolled ice cream machines.

What pitfalls am I not thinking about? Do you like this idea? Hate it?

Ideally id get the ice cream machines used, and the pizzas over are sub 500 each.

Hey folks, I'm following this community from some time. For context: I'm working on something of my own. Got few clients onboard and few in pipeline. Looking forward to connect with folks who are interested in doing 0 to 1 journey. Open to long term as well part time commitment. Need help in marketing collaterals, sales, operations. To start with sales is commision based model. Rest open to discuss as per the value you bring to table.

Hello all, I had a nightmare of a client who is requesting a chargeback. We build websites for small companies and once we launched she took back her comments of the website being ‘good to go’ to all these complaints.

She requested a chargeback today after we requested her to pay the final amount and even been working with her to change what she did not like on the website. She has ghosted us for weeks now and today I see the chargeback.

My question for the community is what evidence I supply my payment processor to win the battle? She obviously authorized the transaction and we have texts showing she did. But cannot people say ‘not as described’ to get chargeback as well? I want to cover all bases as it says I only get one time to say our case.

Also, should I try reaching out to her to say this is unprofessional and not going to work?

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