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Justdecide.com and nibletz.com are partnering for something very exciting, thought provoking and hopefully helpful to startups everywhere.
Jay Amato, the founder of justdecide.com has a long standing background helping to build and rebuild fortune 500 companies in New York. After a great career of doing just that, he found that he had a dilemma, what to do next. That’s where justdecide was born out of Amato’s own dilemma.
While many people turn to Amato for his advice in business and mentorship he’s also jumped head first into Justdecide, his own startup. That’s where the idea for the “Startup Dilemma Of The Week” was born.
There’s no real “if” about it, along the startup path you’re going to come into a dilemma, or two or ten and need some help. Now every week you can submit your dilemma to startups@nibletz.com and if you’re lucky we will post it as our dilemma of the week.
All week long you’ll be able to see your dilemma on justdecide.com at this link or by clicking the banner to the right side of the page here on nibletz.com.
We will encourage our community of startups “everywhere else” do help solve your dilemma by choosing one of the three possible answers and weighing in with feedback. Hopefully you’ll come to some resolution with the help of the startup community. Also we will randomly select people who weigh in on the dilemma for cool prizes from some of our great sponsors.
Our kick off dilemma actually comes from a crowded discussion at dinner during TechWeek in Chicago. There were actually about 10 of us around the table discussing one founder’s dilemma.
“I’ve finished my pitch deck, what should I do next”. The discussion got heated because everyone at the table had a different point of view, mostly predicated on where they were in the startup process.
The person who asked the question was ready to go head first and pitch venture capitalists, in Chicago and all over the country, and of course the valley too.
One of the participants in the discussion thought that the idea hadn’t been vetted out enough. The entrepreneur was still green and wet behind the ears. Other participant thought at this early stage in the game the entrepreneur would be chewed up and spit out by any venture capitalist and perhaps blow his chance at ever getting in front of that VC again.
We all seemed to be in agreement on that. If the entrepreneur took his idea to a VC this early in the game he would blow his one and only shot. Of course we could all understand why he wanted to just go pitching away, like many of us, he needed the money.
Another one of the participants in the discussion suggested that the entrepreneur vet the idea and practice the pitch with friends and family. Of course the downside to this is that more often than not his friends and family are going to blow smoke up his ass.
One person suggested he just randomly talk about the idea with 50 complete strangers in Chicago and see what they thought.
Please click over here to justdecide.com to weigh in on the “Startup Dilemma of the Week”. Also don’t forget to send us your dilemmas so that the startup community can help you out with your important startup dilemmas.
Linkage:
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