justinram11

I've always had the entrepreneurial bug (selling websites on craigslist when I was 13), and feel I'm now in a good place financially, skillset wise (my last role was a tech-lead / cto with management experience, but many years as very fast generalist developer), and life to go in on a business idea.

My financial goals are to bootstrap something to 10's of millions and become financially independent.

It's my belief that the best / easiest way to accomplish this is to work with someone who has really deep industry experience and connections in a non-traditionally-technical field (construction, supply chains, healthcare, etc), and solve a niche problem that only someone with years of industry experience could identify.

My assumption, though, is that people with that sort of background do not traditionally hang out on reddit or HN -- does anyone have any experience or suggestions on where to find them?

I did check out YC's Co-Founder Match Maker, but so far most of the profiles have been either successful founders who are looking to go the fundraising route, or younger marketers / MBA's who don't necessarily have deep industry experience.

Thanks in advance!

I'm currently a US Citizen living abroad in Taiwan.

If I want to run a bootstrapped startup while living in Taiwan that sells to mostly US based businesses, but is developed by 1099 contractors in Asia (which have a 15 year amortization period I believe?), is there a new "best country" to open the company in? Singapore? HK? Taiwan?

Hello,

I'm currently the Tech Lead / CTO at a small 20-person startup that has seen quite a bit of growth this year.

We store quite a bit of contact information (names, phone numbers, email addresses), and have quite a few <18 year old users (we are a high school fundraising platform). We'd like to make sure we are doing our best to keep that information protected.

I think our biggest concern at the moment is a data leak.

We would eventually like to move towards SOC2 (likely through Vanta), so I'm not sure if there is a way to "kill 2 birds with one stone" here.

I inherited this project from a contracting shop, and although I'm feeling fairly comfortable with it at this point, I'm very much in a "I don't know what I don't know" situation.

Any specific recommendations for things to look for or things to avoid? Are most companies the same in that they're just going to run a set of automated scripts against your services?

Thanks for any help!