I Have An Idea For A Startup Now What: Just Decide Dilemma Of The Week

We’re back with another JustDecide.com startup dilemma of the week. We’re sure that a lot of you reading this today, had this exact same dilemma at one time or another.

” I have an idea for a startup, now what”

There are a lot of answers to this question. In the case of this startup dilemma of the week, it’s specifically about co-founders. What happens when someone has a great idea for a startup and no technical expertise. This exact dilemma can be the make it or break it point for a good idea.

In this week’s dilemma of the week there are a few good options:

  • Find a technical co-founder
  • Raise money to outsource development
  • teach myself to code and become my own technical co-founder.

Finding a technical co-founder can be tough. With a technical co-founder, most founders and entrepreneurs are looking for someone to work for equity. This can be a risky proposition to the designer, developer or coder that you’re considering as a co-founder. They may worry that, regardless of the great idea and their technical skills, the startup may never see revenue, or worse, funding.

On the flip side to that of course, is a proposition which could mean millions of dollars to the technical co-founder, should your startup take off.

Raising money without an actual product can be a tricky thing. It gets even harder when you’re trying to do it without an actual product, or a working demo. Outsourcing development can be an entirely separate headache as well. Who knows what you’re going to get when ou outsource and in most cases it’s hard to manage outsourced developers

The final suggestion, teaching myself to code, may seem like a great way to go, after all knowledge is power. The downside to that is regardless of who does the technical work, there will be a ton of other things for the original founder to do, outside of coding.

This startup dilemma of the week turns out to be a lot tougher than you might imagine.

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We Want To Launch Our Startup With The Most Traction: Startup Dilemma Of The Week

We’re back with another Justdecide.com/Nibletz startup dilemma of the week.  We’ve teamed up with justdecide.com to bring crowdsourced startup dilemmas of the week. If you’ve encountered a dilemma in the startup process and need some help figuring out what to do than email info@nibletz.com and we will post your dilemma in this feature.

Today we’re faced with a dilemma that most startups in “stealth mode” face, and that’s how to build traction. First things first we are adamant believers that “stealth mode” for lack of a better word is bullshit. It’s not about the idea as much as it is about the execution. 100% total original ideas, that are going to knock it out of the ballpark from the minute they go live, are rarities. Further more, most startups that go in “stealth mode” have the same problem that this startup has. Obviously, if your idea is so great that it deserves stealth mode, than you should have no problem with traction right?

Well since that’s definitely not true, our startup this week is now worried about how they can develop traction.

Should they: 

Send PR pitches out to the top tech publications such as TechCrunch, PandoDaily, Venture Beat, GigaOm, TheNextWeb, etc.

Hire a PR firm to take care of it

Review articles written by different technology journalists in different publications and choose one that we deem a good fit for our product launch

Don’t contact anyone and wait to be contacted once we gain traction and/or a Series A round of funding

What’s your advice for this startup? Please weigh in here for the Justdecide/Nibletz Startup Dilemma Of The Week.

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JustDecide Startup Dilemma Of The Week: Work Visas And Startups

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A lot of my friends who are startup founders, developers or designers happen to be Asian, Indian, and even Russian. Many of them have either immigrated to the United States, work remotely and come here occasionally and a handful are actually working illegally. Now this isn’t the forum for an immigration debate but if a foreigner comes over to the US and wants to start a startup, more power to them it’s not like their startup is taking away jobs from Americans because their startup is their idea. Even better, when their startup gets bigger they’ll hire Americans.

So our Startup Dilemma Of The Week, this week, comes from a guy in Washington DC. He’s currently here on a work visa and working for a major corporation.

The dilemma comes in because he has a great idea for a startup, one that’s not really being done anywhere just yet. He wants to move to Silicon Valley but isn’t sure if he should move and work for a different startup or just venture out on his own.

This is obviously a dilemma with a bit of a legal issue in the background. Here’s the dilemma from justdecide.com

The Details:I am currently on my work visa with a corporate company working in the Washington D.C. area. I really want to move to Silicon Valley, but am unsure if I should try to find a job at a startup or start my own company. Because I am on my work visa establishing my own in the US isn’t that straight forward. But I know eventually that’s what I want to do. I am a web developer and you can find my portfolio at http://www.webileapps.com/ for which I am one of the Co-Founders and manage the App development, Customer Acquisition & Growth.

You can help him with this dilemma by submitting your answer here. There are four possible outcomes to choose from.

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JustDecide & Nibletz Present The Startup Dilemma Of The Week

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.

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