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Hi everyone, I'm looking to hire my first marketing and growth professional, for my SaaS company.

How did you find the best growth hacker that you have ever hired?

Please share any specific tips and tricks, namely where did you find them, like job boards, forums, etc.

I did not have success so far in the usual places like Upwork, etc., it seems that's not where they hang out.

I'm looking for someone with a good understanding of common SaaS early growth tactics like lifetime plans, PPC on dedicated review websites like Capterra, G2, etc. experience launching on Product Hunt, and overall a great understanding of how to grow a SaaS product on the early stages in general.

Any tips you can give on the best job boards or sites to find great growth hackers would be very helpful.

Thanks everyone, cheers.

Hello everyone,

I'm a company founder in early growth stages, looking to hire my first full-time marketing person.

I'm looking for someone who is interested in all aspects of growth: from deal sites and launch websites like Product Hunt, to analytical skills like competitor analysis to be able to identify channels of growth, to a bit of knowledge on paid Ads as well, just to name a few.

Ideally, this would be a general all-around marketing professional, with a great analytical mind, that can find and help the company explorer new channels of growth.

I suppose this type of all-round marketing professional is what we call a Growth Hacker, correct?

Or is for example paid ads outside of the scope of that role?

Let me know if I've misunderstood the term, and if you could point me to where I should go to hire marketing professionals?

I've tried Upwork so far, but somehow I'm not sure if it's the best place to look.

Thanks everyone for sharing your experience on this, good luck everyone with your companies and enjoy the growth ride.

It looks like things have been getting worst on the GDPR front, for what I can tell.

I am getting messages from users telling me that that can't use my service because things like Google Fonts and Google Analytics have been essentially made illegal in certain European countries like France, Austria and Germany, due to recent court rulings.

A user told me they know of people who got fined because of this.

Is this true? I can only find a few references here and there, but there seems to be truth to it.

My main question is, what did you do in your case to make your product GDPR compliant?

Any links to services that you used would be very helpful.

Here is what I did so far for compliance.

I generated the legal documents like terms and conditions, privacy policy etc. using a third-party document generation service, and I added a PDF with a GDPR Data Process Agreement (DPA) listing the platforms that I use (Firebase, etc).

I've set the region of my production databases to Europe.

To give more context if needed, I own a bootstrapped company and I'm now setting up the legal paperwork for being compliant with GDPR, the company is Belgium-based.

The company is an online course platform, that allows customers to create their own website, in their own custom domain.

So the customers could have in their websites privacy policies that are different than mine.

What did you do in terms of documentation and third-party services to help you make your company GDPR compliant?

Any services that you recommend?

Thank you for any insight on this matter.

Hello everyone, how do you hire remote workers abroad? Meaning that they work from their countries permanently and never come to your country.

So this is not a work visa or anything, I'm talking about full time remote work.

For example, imagine you have a small self-bootstrapped company company in Belgium (my case), and you want to have a few full-time workers in India (developers and content creators for example).

How does that work? Can they just issue you invoices as freelancers in euros and that's it?

Or do they need to have their own company?

What happens if they don't have a company?

Would using an intermediate platform like Upwork help in any way?

I understand no one here is probably a lawyer, and I will take the advice with a grain of salt and confirm with a professional.

But I would love to know about the feedback and personal experience of other entrepreneurs in a similar situation.

Hello everyone, I just launched my bootstrapped (no funding) online learning startup, after 3 years of solo development part-time (2 to 3 days a week) - https://onlinecoursehost.com

I would love for you guys to go through the landing page and give me your feedback on the page itself, the idea, the pricing model, any feedback would be much appreciated.

About the product, it's an online course hosting platform. Online instructors upload their video courses, integrate with Stripe, set a price, create a course landing page and website home page (there is a website builder component to it), maybe create some discounts and start selling courses.

The main added value is that the user experience is better than usual, here is an example of the course player where students can navigate through the course, search for answers and ask questions - https://tests.onlinecoursehost.com/courses/introduction-to-javascript/1/lessons/1

Besides that, the price is much lower than usual. Normally, it takes about $100 a month in order to get an equivalent set of features, while in our platform you can start for free in the growth plan (5% fees on any sales made, no recurring charges).

Then later you can upgrade to a subscription which costs less than half of what is available elsewhere.

The target audience are online instructors, which create video courses on an educational topic, with or without a pre-existing audience. It's tough for instructors just starting out until they can become profitable, so the goal is to give them all the information that they need for free, plus a growth plan to get things started.

Let me know what you think of the idea, and if you have any suggestions or noticed something wrong with the business model, the page, etc.

In general, I would love to hear your thoughts on this project. Thanks & Regards