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You have $1,000 to spend on your startup...
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@ThePeterMick
What do you spend it on? :-)
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Visual design (landing page, and brand). It's hard to get much for $1000 but a landing page, logo, and some colors/assets you can re-use go a long way.
If I am an early-stage startup, then I guess on a sales automation tool, just to get the ball rolling and get some money.
Can you list a few sales automation tools?
For LinkedIn outreach (and they also support email) - Expandi, SkyLead.
For cold emails - Lemlist, Snov.io, Apollo.
Phantombuster, TexAu - automation for list buildings
There are a bunch more, but those are the ones I've used personally.
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Curious to see what others will say, but I'd probably put that money on landing page.
Assuming I have a skill set to build the landing page & sales copy myself.
$600 for base graphic assets and colors to align the brand
$150 for an hour of consulting with a professional sales copywriter
$250 for a template, server, domain, and one month of sales outreach tool (Apollo/Lemlist)
Buy some SaaS?
Depends on the business. Having built a hardware company too, costs were much higher to manufacture and build the prototypes. For software though:
Make it easy to run user calls. I've still found Zoom to be better than Hangouts (seems to have better call quality and less issues). The free tiers for Apollo and LinkedIn have been fine for sourcing early on.
Vercel Pro and Supabase to build the MVP and start getting feedback. Lots of services have free tiers (Vercel Pro mainly since I was working with a co-founder and it made it easier. Might be able to get away with the free tiers for both).
Then Stripe Atlas + Earth Class Mail to incorporate and start billing, etc.
Assuming you already have the basics, like a computer and Internet connectivity and a website; I recommend spending that $1,000 on Artificial Intelligence services. At the moment many AIaaS offerings are free. And the ones that cost anything, are typically $40 or less each month.
These AI SaaS services can automate, magnify and professionalize almost any area of your operation where you need assistance or want to supercharge your performance. I can share the specific AI tools I use every day in another post. But my purpose for commenting is to say that "AI" is the correct answer here.
That's a tough one.
If I'm not good at landing page creation it's $100 on domain, hosting, email and $900 on landing page.
If I can make a good landing page it's $100 on domain, hosting, email, and landing page and $900 on caffeine and calories to fuel the sales efforts.
Assuming I'm building a mobile phone app, I'm putting almost all of that towards a professional app icon/logo.
Downloading billions of images: https://github.com/rom1504/img2dataset