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Founder of Ezbizi


Jan
19
comment How to create a well structured term sheet?
Thanks Sid, good post!
Jan
19
accepted How to create a well structured term sheet?
Jan
19
accepted Valuation of a pre-launch startup?
Jan
18
asked How to create a well structured term sheet?
Jan
18
asked Valuation of a pre-launch startup?
Dec
12
answered What are some startup perks?
Dec
9
comment Where to look for Japanese speaking tech. co-founder?
Hi David, thank you for your comment. Yes you are right, if I can't find a Japanese speaking developer I can still go about it different ways. However as I mentioned the target market is Japan, and in order do develop Japanese language website you need a Japanese developer... the language cannot be translated directly and some strings and codes need to be implemented in the very source considering unique structure of sentences. Trust me this is how I was working so far and there's been a myriad of problems translating the whole app... its much easier to have a Japanese speaker do the job.
Dec
8
asked Where to look for Japanese speaking tech. co-founder?
Oct
15
comment Freemium business model in beta (would this work?)
... That way the paying customers can decide if the payed account was beneficial for them or they would stick to standard free account. It's sort of showing them a temporary demo. Perhaps do any of you guys how does other similar websites (again I will mention linkedin) developed their freemium accounts? The offered it from the launch even without any customer base or slowly added it later?
Oct
15
comment Freemium business model in beta (would this work?)
Thank. I agree with what you say and thought I wouldn't know before I try. My project is close to launch atm and all of the premium features have been designed already. Question now is either to offer it to them or not. That's the reason why I would though of "beta" approach, perhaps explaining in some written text, that the project is in it's beta stage at the moment, maybe draft the expected differences between the free and payed accounts. User would be upgraded to payed account once he resend invitations to other users "something for something" model with a note of expected post beta price.
Oct
15
accepted Freemium business model in beta (would this work?)
Oct
14
revised Freemium business model in beta (would this work?)
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Oct
14
asked Freemium business model in beta (would this work?)
Oct
14
comment Why would you want to avoid “participating preferred stock”?
Thanks Robin, good answer! I appreciate.
Oct
14
accepted Why would you want to avoid “participating preferred stock”?
Oct
14
comment How much shares for a founding director (no active role)?
Thanks Ryan, actually I like your recommendation about offering just fixed monetary compensation. What I try to do I think is to use combination. Maybe I offer something like 1% and a fixed price. Anyway I agree, equity should only be offered to individual taking active role in the business.
Oct
14
asked Why would you want to avoid “participating preferred stock”?
Oct
12
answered Home page for a B2B site
Oct
11
comment What's the Best Way to Attract New Users?
I looked at your website and like the idea but what if you maybe throw all that text into some sort of video showing the strongest point of your service. I'm saying this as a user and to honest I am lazy to read it all despite I'm sure its very informative :)... just my small piece of feedback. Good luck.
Oct
11
comment How much shares for a founding director (no active role)?
Thanks I see your points and agree with you. You see my problem is if I pay them, it might not be that attractive for them go through all the fuss... the people I have in mind don't have a financial need and I don't have thousands of $ to pay for this. I was thinking something like 2.5% vested over 2 years period. Keep in mind that if the "director" leaves I need to find a replacement to keep the business afloat. I don't expect much revenue in first few month-year so I don't have much cash-flow flexibility either.