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AI is making everything easier. Anyone can clone most SaaS products in a week. I feel like technical skill is no longer valuable. What makes SaaS startups valuable, and what are the competitive advantages and moats these days?

Hi folks, I have incorporated c corp in delaware and looks like I have to file personal information of CEO and other board members to California Secretary of State. This results my personal information and addresses to be shown publicly and I am not that comfortable doing that even though I am not doing anything illegal.

Do you know any solution for these privacy concerns? Thanks!

Hi folks, I am curious how chatgpt handles ToS of websites that restrict scraping and automation. Let's say you want to order food from Doordash using ChatGPT operator, but doordash says following in their ToS: "Scraping. Using any robot, spider, web crawler, extraction software, automated process and/or device to scrape, copy, index, frame, monitor, conduct any systematic retrieval of data or other content from any portion of platform or its content."

Reason why I am asking this is because I am also building automation software where it makes it easy for users to automate the work in their platforms. But there are restrictions for such work in their ToS.

We started a startup 8 months ago and have gained good traction. We are both tech founders with 50/50 equity, but I handle most of the technical side while my co-founder focuses more on marketing using his connections, as well as doing a smaller portion of the coding. I also come up with more ideas, but most of the time my co-founder is pessimistic about them. Our market does not have much competition. We offer cheaper packages than our competitors. While our competitor sells 5 items for $10, we sell 1 item for $2 (we also have 2 more plans that offer more items for a lower price). Recently, I came up with the idea of bulk pricing like our competitor since we provide more value than they do. However, my co-founder argues that our pricing is our advantage. I showed him many videos from YC and others explaining why this is not the case, but he doesn't watch them and believes that we are different, and what works for others doesn't necessarily work for us. We don't have defined roles like CTO or CEO since there are only two of us on the team. How do normal successful startups make decisions? Should we designate a CEO role? Even if we do, we would still argue about who should be the CEO. Please share your opinions and suggestions about our situation. Thanks.

I'm building startup and I already have some traction and it really helps and solves users problems. It is not that difficult to build type of startup that I built. Sometimes people ask how easy it is to replicate my idea, what if somebody build exactly same product and offer for lower price, what is stopping others to build the same product you built. Honestly, for me it is difficult to answer this questions, because I know how easy it is to build. How would you answer to this type of question assuming you have a startup/product?

I have done multiple startup projects but my motivation was decreased on all of them over time. My biggest guess is because my co-founders not giving same effort as me. All co-founders had same equity share. I know I don't have to care about effort much early if startup is being progressed. But how do normal startups work? How do you determine effort equality? Do you use time trackers or other stuff.

It says "Leave url blank to submit a question for discussion", I guess it is "space" button on keyboard, but it didn't work. It says "please enter url". I event tried to copy and paste "blank" symbol.

I with my friend built a mvp version of your tech product. It was unique and very helpful for students. We gained 500+ users in one week and done some small sales. But problem with our startup was that, it was really dependant to copyrighted material. The creators of those materials never give permission to use. They are an educational materials that includes book parts and audios. So as a founders, what would you recommend to do? So far there is no problem with our work but I feel like, in future there surely be.

I have been in tech industry for more than 7 years now. I have done couple of startup projects, working with team, that many of them failed (Worked ones even got international awards with grants more than $100k). I also have been doing algorithmic trading and have some experience in it. I just came to US (San Francisco) 4 months ago by dropping out my university abroad (at 3rd year). Currently I am studying at language school just to keep my F1 status here in US. Learning something new everyday (learning ML these days). But it feels like language school is just taking my time even though I am learning everyday and working on my projects. My skills would seem general but if I try something I will force myself to finish it. Now I would like to meet other experienced people in this area. I just applied UC Berkley, now searching for bootcamps. What would you recommend for an international student in this case?

I am a founder on 2 startups and hired 2 tech developers for them. I have a huge tech background and able to manage those developers by giving tasks and checking their solutions. But I'm not good at communication. I only give tasks and check their solutions, but can't give any motivation to developers. I am sure this is really bad for employers. Because personally I would also get bored by doing same tasks everyday. So what do you recommend to motivate developers and keeping their energy.

Hey folks. I am new into tech startups, I am sure my questions should be common, but I couldn't find any useful material yet. My question is how to define co-founders responsibilities equally (let's say 3 co-founder 33.3% each) so they all contribute equal value. All founders are in different fields: Tech, Marketing, Sales. (they don't know each other's field). Because of this, our startup have been stuck.

I am ultra introvert guy with high experience in tech and startups. I am co-founder of two small tech startups and struggle really bad at meetings with team because my speech is very bad. For that reason I hate meetings and prefer only chatting. But I am good at listening. What can be efficient fast way to learn speaking well?