I see that you ask for 10 euro donations. What is the money used for?
Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
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Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#42I see that you ask for 10 euro donations. What is the money used for?
It goes to the Startup Foundation, an independent non-profit supporting founders building more successful startups, of which I am the Chairman.
#startup is our latest initiative, but we're working on a progress report tool (enabling founder to give peer feedback and to report to investors and coaches).
We also have a weekender format like Startup Weekend or Lean Startup Machine, which we have done 10 of to date and will roll out in 2015. Next to that we have an incubator in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and a big meetup group for that city.
Our goal is that all of our initiatives generate surplus revenue to be able to roll out new initiatives and improve existing ones.
But for #startup, it is also a great way to find out who is motivated to get in and contribute. Most of the contributions are actually from people who have heard about what it is like on the inside.
You see, we normally get tens of applications per day, and some people just want to get in ASAP. This way they can, without us having to screen everyone that wants to get in directly.
Now that we're on PH, HN, Reddit and Betalist, we've got hundreds of applications just today. And we will screen them all, so it might take a week to get in.
+ not every motivation is good enough to get in, cash tells us you are at least slightly dedicated.
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which made you go "errr..."? We try to get an idea of who a person is. Also, if they have founders in their network, or if they are just lazy and skip questions ;-)
All of the questions around "What can you bring to #startup?" or "What do you want from #startup" or "What #startup founder do you want to connect with" fell extremely flat with me - I abandoned the form. I'm on the page because you posted it here, on HN, and I started the flow because the premise seemed interesting, and I have a startup. I don't have any goals, and frankly, the pitch made it sound like more value wo…
We know it's a ton of questions, and not all of them are very important. But the goal here is to separate those who are truly motivated from those who will come in and just lurk, self promote or scout.
I'm sorry if you think we have some hidden agenda, which is certainly not the case as screening the applications is an extreme amount of work. The way the application is set up we will also have a lot less applications being submitted, which is a nice side effect as we already have hundreds waiting.
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#44For those who are wondering the slick UI for the sign up was made with Typeform out of Barcelona :)
So proud to see fellow Barcelonins doing great. Keep it up guys! :-)
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#45Why you always use weird slack for private community chats? It has really slow performance everywhere.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its fair because people identify # as "hashtag" anyway. "poundstartup" has a more questionable ring to it. Also, you get what you dish out. Saying its "dumb" is what earned you the 15 year old in me. had you said something like "i disagree with their use of the word hashtag" it would have given an entirely different tone, don't you think?
It would be hash startup, not pound startup. Have you ever spoken an IRC channel name before?
Please don't be personally abrasive on Hacker News, even when other people seem not to know what they're talking about.
Re: Show HN: #Startup – A global startup community, on Slack
#47I was ready to donate the €10 but found it just wants me to enter credit card details onto the application form and I was on a non-https page. It said it uses Stripe but it's tricky to tell if that's really the case (I don't believe there's bad intent here at all, but the UX for taking the payment doesn't inspire confidence).
We've heard this once before. And I totally get the concern. I'll make sure someone at Typeform hears about this, as they are on #startups. We'll embed stripe checkout on the homepage soon I guess. Thanks.
Great idea with #Startup, guys! An insecure HTTP address is a concern though, which gave me a bit of a pause --- the developer in me speaks here --- although it's great a TypeForm page is offered at the bottom of the "Apply" panel (except it's not easy to notice; maybe a bigger font or highlight color will do the trick)... I believe an HTTPS-hosted page will do wonders, guys! :)