- Europe offered €100M to defence startups and scale-ups. Only 9 applied. Are the eligibility requirements too demanding?
The programme offers €10M to €30M per company to support major funding rounds and help scale defence technologies. Application documentation is really easy. But only nine companies applied. Are...
83 points17 comments4 d ago
- YC & Silicon Valley is fraud
I met people here taking money to get to an Interview of YC and these people are getting funded, they have zero revenue sometimes even zero customers. Founders with real revenue and customers are...
82 points85 comments4 d ago
- Building my first startup and looking for other founders to stay in touch with
Hey, I’m a new founder and looking to get to know other people who are also building something. Is there any WhatsApp discord community where founders exchange notes? Like sharing what worked for...
18 points25 comments5 d ago
- CEO of nothing.
Who came up with the idea CEO of nothing ?
14 points15 comments7 d ago
- How much equity should I offer a co-founder who is joining after I've already built the MVP?
Hey everyone! I've been working on a product for the past six months. The idea originated with me, and I've independently handled everything so far, including initial market validation, product...
9 points33 comments6 d ago
- What I learned from 12 investor meetings that all ended with "keep us posted"
I spent the last 3 months raising a pre-seed for a B2B tool for small accounting firms. 12 first meetings, zero second meetings, evry single one ended with "love it, keep us posted".... went back...
7 points6 comments1 d ago
- After 4 months of hard work...
I launched SeoLoupe 4 months ago. So far I am at 3282 users and 64 of them are paying. My SaaS is a tool that allows you to find and fix SEO issues holding your website back. Essentially the main...
7 points4 comments2 d ago
- I felt guilty for skipping startup programs. One YC video fixed that.
As an early founder, there's always another startup program. Accelerators, pitch competitions, founder workshops, networking nights. My feed is full of them, and so are my emails. I didn't go to...
7 points10 comments3 d ago
- Technical co-founder wanted (equity only, part-time to start): B2B software for internal employee mobility
\\Looking for:\\ a technical co-founder, ideally full-stack with some AI experience, to own the engineering. Equity only, no salary until funding, with standard four-year vesting. Part-time to...
6 points7 comments2 d ago
- Looking for founders like myself to join weekly calls for motivation and accountability
Hey everyone, I'm Parker. I'm a solo founder of a very small SaaS. Being a solo founder is incredibly lonely and I've learned that the biggest obstacle to success is simply getting burnt out and...
6 points26 comments3 d ago