How would you grow this?
Hello IH,
I'm Jose, Co-Founder & CEO @ StartupStarter. We're a public professional startup community providing business solutions for entrepreneurs, investors and service providers.
We're now launching our platform and looking to acquire our first users, any feedback on how we could do this efficiently would be really helpful.
Thank you in advance.
This is us: https://startupstarter.co
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It's well designed :)
One thing. When you say business solution, what does it means actually?
I'm an entrepreneur/ investor but what benefits would you expect me to gain and how can people in this segment contribute your platform?
Every type of membership comes with it's own perks. For founders that means fundraising software, funding applications, grants, a launch platform, marketplace, over $200k worth of deals and integrations to platforms such as LunchClub and OnePager.
For investors this means deal-flow and data on all founders in the community, advertising and a marketplace to gain exposure.
Service providers and businesses get access to sales solutions for the new normal, access to the community CRM and detailed data and insights on the needs of our members.
There's even more once you go inside, so it's quite a stack to mention. That's why we landed on "business solutions for entrepreneurs, investors and service providers."
Does that bring more clarity?
Would you like to list your community on Hive Index to reach more members?
Yeah for sure, that looks really cool. Is it yours?
Hey Jose, I am not sure which is the best approach for your specific target, but I just audited your site: https://app.wappraiser.com/reports/601591ae44e00f0004a4e296/overview, and you could try to improve the performance score of the web page.
I really love the product, btw.
Hey @StartupStarter, congrats and good luck. While I'm not sure what channels, tactics, etc. will work best, here's some solid reading on frameworks to implement to get your answer.
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I’m targeting a similar market and I’ve noticed that when people talk about “startups”, the conversation heavily leans towards topics like funding, raising money, etc. When people talk about “founders”, then it’s more about individual founders, growth, etc.
You’ll notice that here on IH, for example, the word “startup” is not mentioned a lot, for example.
Anyway, my point is that you seem to be using these 2 words as part of a same mental framework in your copy, which I think is a mistake (I may be wrong though). I would start by either focusing on building a community for founders (and pitching features like growth advice, idea validation, etc) or a community for startups (where I’d say that people will be talking on things related to raising money, for example).
We did that before. We used to operate as an accelerator and run our community through Slack, however once we decided to build software we steered away from driving value from the community and more from the platform than anything else.
I'll take your advice on the difference between Founder and Startup and see if we can tweak it.
Thanks!
Offer a potential investment. Back when I ran a conventional startup that was looking to raise money, I chased a lot of stupid opportunities to raise money. And I know 99% of startup founders are doing the same thing.
If you can't make an investment yourself, you may be able to partner up with a ambitious Angel or VC.
Good luck!
Thank you! we have a solution just for that.
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