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I'd like to create a common treasury for me and some friends. We committed together to a project and whoever misses the weekly call is fined from the deposit they put in the treasury. At the end of the committed period all get back their funds - fines.

Do you know of some tools?

I'm looking to create an online community for startuppers and I've seen that: - Circle is cool but a few people remind to open it - Fb groups are almost dead since much younger people don't use it - Slack is often used for work - Discord is often used for web3 communities or similar.

And you? What do you use more frequently (job workspaces excluded)

I invested in some startups through an equity crowdfunding platform.

For some of them I'm happy of the investments while for others I'd prefer to liquidate my equities (even at slight loss) because I'm no longer interested in the project or believing in it.

I've seen that they offer a secondary equity market where you can find buyers and sell your equities.

How does it work? Are there any fees (legal, bureaucratic, fiscal) etc that I should consider?

I invested in some startups through an equity crowdfunding platform.

For some of them I'm happy of the investments while for others I'd prefer to liquidate my equities (even at slight loss) because I'm no longer interested in the project or believing in it.

Are there any (low or no fees) ways to find a buyer and sell my equities?

It is quite famous that 95% of Bitcoin is owned by 2% of accounts. This concentration not only risks to threaten blockchain's own premises, but also exposes minor investors to risk of whales who lead the market and can easily speculate on prices since they can influence the price trends.

Is there any crypto inequality index? I thought that Gini index could work too!

I would like to find an inequality index in the cryptocurrency description on CMC and similar, it would help me make better investment choices.

What do you think?

I often receive Linkedin connection requests from interesting people I don't know.

I use to send a welcome message, but I've seen it doesn't work (almost no cool conversation starts).

My current message sounds like "glad to connect, how can I help you?"

Any idea on how to make it better?

I've searched online and found a bunch of "how to spam connection requests without sound spammy" but it's not what I'm looking for :)

You're elected Prime Minister of your country. What are the first initiatives you'd work on to help your country create a few startup unicorns (and a lot of jobs)?

I'm exploring partnerships between startups as a win-win way to grow. Currently, we don't have a partnership manager, so I'm trying to move something.

I mainly look for co-marketing partnerships cause it's the only collaboration I could imagine for the moment since we're not integrable (so, I'm trying to bundle or cross-sell or pixel swap with other products thought for similar targets, etc).

The criteria I use for selecting potential partners to contact is that: - they're at a similar scale compared to us (otherwise there will be no mutual interest probably) - they serve a similar target

What about you? What is your partnership funnel?

How do you: - structure partnerships? (is there a hidden world outside co-marketing?) - select potential partners? (criteria etc) - contact them and propose the partnership?

Explaining the trap:

1- Startups need early adopters to create a product that really solves problems

2- Companies usually are not early adopters (eg there's no Kickstarter for B2Bs) since they have to run a business and cannot use incomplete tools

3- B2B startups can find early adopters only when their product is good enough, which basically requires capital injections until then

4- Point 3 is completely against lean startup "rules": after you've received money, you could have created something that doesn't solve any problem, but you can't find early adopters due to point 2.

so..how do startups exit this trap and find early adopters?

https://dashboard.stripe.com/billing In this page I have valuable calculated metrics such as MRR, LTV etc. I'd like to integrate it onto my general Google Data Studio dashboard. Any idea of how to do it? I see that supermetrics has an integration but I'm afraid it doesn't cover this

The struggle is: - big companies seldom trust startups beta products (they sometimes have open innovation programs but rarely paid) - SMEs often are not too open with beta products - so how the heck do b2b startups get their first users?

Since we turned all remote, I've seen a repetition of meetings with different people to discuss the same things. I see it as a form of bureaucracy enabled by the visibility of all calendars and the wish for anyone to intervene everywhere.

What's your experience? How do you deal with it?

After the COVID-19 outbreak, in my company we managed to do everything remotely. After the initial trouble, we did remotely all the things that looked impossible to do outside the office: 1-1s, meetings, workshops.

Only one exception: the coffee break. The occasional chit chat which happened in the coffee area has not been substituted from any call, even the most informal one. In fact you don't schedule a coffee, you just go there and find a colleague. It's great for teambuilding and company culture.

We tried to do remote coffees but the magic doesn't happen. Do you know anyone who tried to replace this moment with a remote tool or way to do it?