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What exactly do you look for in your initial few hires? How did you hire them? I want to join a start up and the Co founder and I have a warm relationship (I think) and we've met a few times via networking events.

I'm nervous asking her because my previous stint at a start up didn't go too well. I strongly believe there was some dubious activities going on there but I'm not sure if I should say that during an interview. I decided to take a break and be with my kids after that stint and with the little time I had I started a local tech community. She will be a speaker at my next event. I think she is amazing and I would really love the opportunity to join them but I'm not sure if she'll feel

We're having a very challenging time with our 8 year old at the minute. Teachers call her a "model student", she has great friends and is otherwise a very sweet child.

However, I have noticed she has some anger issues but only towards us parents. For instance, we have had an argument every day the past two weeks during bed time where she will absolutely refuse to do her bedtime routine (brush teeth, shower and go to bed). It's the same with the morning routine as well. She loves reading and will get immersed in a book forgetting everything else. Or she will think of a million other things she wants to do before getting on with things.

Another time, when I picked her up at school, she was

Reforge just released Concept Testing where instead of scheduling customer calls, you'd be getting feedback via an AI interviewer which runs live conversations with target users.

Curious to understand what others think of this. Does this make validation less of a bottleneck?

I've been networking on LI and asking people to refer me but I've probably received just one response which has led to an interview so far. What has been your response rate?

I have heard that networking on LI is the sure shot way of landing an interview these days but I am unsure how that works. Make a list of companies I target and follow random people? Comment thoughtfully on posts? Make your own posts? Ask them for a ten minute call?

My feed is noisy enough already, how do you manage all the noise and focus on the things you need? Would love to hear stories who did this successfully. Thank you very much!

My customer segment hangs out in a few Facebook groups. I have been engaging with them organically for a little while now and have a general understanding of their pain points. How do I approach them for user interviews? Cold DMs or comments below their posts? I'm worried that I'll get banned for appearing sales.

I've never really used social media but I am now being forced to for the sake of visibility. Isn't it weird to comment on some random person's post?

What did you do to validate your idea? Were you already in the industry which had the problem or did you talk to others? How did you get your design partners?

Once you built your MVP how long did it take for you to get paying customers and how many of them were your initial design partners?

I want to build a map that shows multiple function/services a place provides. As a simple example if I have three categories - take away, dine in and wine bar for a restaurant, I want my marker or pin for this place to have the iconography to show that this provides all three services. Is this even possible? How can I best achieve this?

I want to build a map that shows multiple function/services a place provides. As a simple example if I have three categories - take away, dine in and wine bar for a restaurant, I want my marker or pin for this place to have the iconography to show that this provides all three services. Is this even possible? How can I best achieve this?

I am new to the startup world and I know of a B2B fintech start up who took 2 years to build an MVP and while the leadership team kept stressing that there is lots of interest, they did not have any customers signed up for it even after that. Is this normal or is the advice to get get customers signed up first before you build anything still valid here?