mcgeadyd

Hi!<p>I've invested 18 months of my time and $30k into a startup (wyldsson) that is beginning to make some serious progress.<p>Could just bring in employees now, but they don't have the same commitment as a founder. So I probably do need to bring someone in as a co-founder... with some sort of vesting arrangement, so that someone I bring in has skin in the game?<p>I'm not drawing a salary, so I guess that they shouldn't either, right? And I'm going to have to dip into my pockets to fund working capital and future growth so they should chip in too I guess?<p>What would Paul Graham say about all this?! I guess he would be all in favor of bringing in a cofounder? How would he structure it though?!!<p>Dave

So I have a spare ticket for the web summit (worth €1,000). Open to selling it, but maybe you could trade me some skill or service? Here's my startup: http://wyldsson.com/ Open to suggestions!

What will I do with it? I could sell it I guess - I'm sure I'd get at least €500 (its now sold out!). I'm trying to think of something more imaginative though. I have a startup... http://wyldsson.com/. Maybe you could trade me your service or something? Just putting it out there!

Hey! Does anyone know of any non-tech firms that dod YC? They say that they are open to applications from non-tech firms, so thinking of giving it a go myself... but would love to see if there are other companies who've successfully applied and got on it!

Thanks!

Dave

http://www.wyldsson.com/product/dispenser/

I developed this trail mix dispenser for the Irish Rugby team (the photo is from their team room at their training camp last weekend). In the evenings when they're chilling out, they take a little cup of trail mix instead of a bar, as its a much healthier snack.

Question: Would YOU like one of these in your office? (Think of it as a water fountain for trail mix) I'm thinking of promoting it to "progressive" firms, who already provide free snacks etc.

Any thoughts would be really welcomed!

PS: Will be exhibiting it at Web Summit - see you there!

Using woocommerce to run a simple webstore... http://wyldsson.com/shop/ Issue is that I now have customers in the US, EU and UK... all of whom use different currencies. They of course would like to see the products displayed in their home currency, and would also like to complete the transaction in their home currencies. Woocommerce only supports 1 currency at a time unfortunately. This must be a problem faced multiple times in the past... surely there must be a simple solution here? Any thoughts or ideas would be really welcomed!

Just wondering what others would recommend? Ideally something really simple to use.

Any idea how much it works out at to print a page using a colour laser printer? I want to print out 5,000 articles featuring a color picture.

Ok so I've come up with a half dozen brand names for a product that I'm developed, and I want to find a method to pick the best one. Of course I can ask friends and family, but beyond that are there any ways to run it by many people quickly and cheaply? Any ideas are really welcomed!

So I decided to do a food startup, and lined up a small pilot trial for a MVP of a snack product I've been working on since July. It's low tech. I've gone out and talked to a bunch of people who have loads of experience in the food industry - I certainly don't. They have ALL said to me that I'm mad to go ahead and do this pilot trial. They state reasons such as "you will confuse your customers" when you start/tweaking the product and labeling or that I should really be making final versions of labeling instead of just going with the first iteration... no point in doing the work twice. The thing is that they just don't get the whole MVP concept AT ALL, not that I tried to explain it to them. It's strange though, because I would have thought that if there's one industry that MVP is suitable for, it would be food. I had been a little put off by these experts comments, although now I think that perhaps I'm slightly ahead of the curve. Just wondering if anyone has experience of bringing MVP / Lean Thinking to other industries?

We're a 5 person startup and have been using dropbox for as a sort of adhoc file storage. Need something a bit more suited for professional purposes now. In the old days, we would have just got a company server and a set up a network drive. People have been suggesting Huddle or Sugarsync. Any opinions / comments / suggestions etc? Thanks! Dave