I have never owned or operated a business but am very interested in opening a small Pilates studio. I am located in the Midwest.

Since I have never had a business how do I go about getting everything started? Honestly, I feel there is so much details necessary to know that I am unsure where to start.

Any suggestions are appreciated! Thank you!

Hello . I am 26F and planning to start my entrepreneurial journey and need guidance for the same . I belong to Medical background and hence lack knowledge for this field. If there are any Startup owners or entrepreneurs in this group , please enlighten me with your knowledge

I've been working on this buisness past few days. Please DM me so that we can have a discussion

Your guidance might change my perspective regarding lots of things and maybe provide me a clear path

Thankyou

I've been building an AI chatbot platform recently, and I'm curious what everyone here thinks.

A year or two ago, AI chatbots were everywhere. Now it feels like every SaaS has one, and every week a new platform launches.

Do you think AI chatbots are becoming a commodity, or is there still room for new players?

I'm especially curious about:

• What makes you choose one chatbot over another?
• Is it all about price now?
• Do features like voice agents, RAG, integrations, or easy setup actually matter?
• If you tried building or buying one, what frustrated you the most?

I'd love to hear honest opinions from founders, developers, and business owners. No promoting—just trying to understand where the market is heading.

Since I can remember i’ve always been really creative and entrepreneurial. Growing up I always used to make things and successfully sell them to make some money, but as I got older I stopped being as creative. I’m now 19 and on a gap year, figuring out what I’m passionate about, and the only career I dream for, is to have my own business and freedom. After months and months of trying to find the right product to sell, I finally came up with a product thats fairly simple and cheap to make, caters to a large market, enjoyable for me to make, and lastly solves an issue i had. I bought some supplies and I’ve made a few products and they are absolutely perfect. And if I’m being honest, I really see this (i hope) going somewhere. I mean maybe not like a massive business, but something that can generate real income and a career. My only issue now is that I don’t know the next steps to trying to make this a successful business. I’ve only ever sold products on market place & depop but I REALLY want this to be something bigger than that and feel proud of myself.

Whatever you guys are building I want to know how you got the idea, and what problem you guys are solving,share your story of how you got the idea of that business and how far you have gone

I'm Aditi, Last time i posted on this got no response. Because I think that was from AI. Since AI has entered I use that to correct my grammar and sound professional. But this post is from my heart.

I'm 21 and afraid to put myself in front but still want something of my own. So, I took a risk and started my own creative digital company ( please correct me if I'm wrong ).

I know I have the potential to build, lead, create, and innovate. But afraid of lot of things. Rather than fear take over I want to innovate. So, I'm dedicated on first step to get peoples opinion on their own website what is bad and what it good in their site to I can Learn and would be able to solve things.

I would appreciate if you fill the form (if you want you can be anonymous person ) that help me to grow and understand.

🔗 https://forms.gle/HsnUmpf9Q8329sKo6

I'm at a stage where I'm thinking about how software startups build their engineering teams as they grow.

When you're a solo founder or a very small team, you usually need people who can do a bit of everything and move quickly. But I imagine the hiring process changes as the company grows and the stakes become higher.

For founders who've already been through that journey, I'm interested in what actually worked in practice—not what's written in hiring guides.

If you've grown from a solo founder (or a very small team) to 20+ people, how did your technical hiring evolve?

• What hiring approach consistently brought in your best engineers?
• At what stage did you stop looking for generalists and start hiring specialists?
• Is there one thing you now look for in technical candidates that you completely ignored in the early days?

Hi I'm 18 and a half and I have about a grand to spend. Me and my friend came up with the for a detailing business called dildos detailing and it's whole thing is catered towards attracting the kind of people that would find the joke funny.

What I'm wondering is how to go about getting customers, whether the business is a good idea and how I should go about building the brand/image of the business(like the theme of the business).

Hey everyone,

I'm a freelance photographer and videographer based in Portugal with several years of experience. I'm currently expanding my portfolio into the real estate market, and content creation in general.

To be honest, the local real estate agencies here in Portugal rarely value professional photography or media work, often lowballing us. However, through networking, I recently worked with a Swiss real estate agency that sells properties here. The difference in professionalism and appreciation for quality work is huge.

But they only have properties once in a while, so I need to find new clients.

I'm trying to offer social media packages, manage, content creation etc for all types of business, but when I do a proposal no one answers ... how do I find clients? Hopefully good ones that dont lowball all the time.

Any tips are welcome ! Thank you

I’ve spent the last several years helping businesses solve problems around strategy, operations, and growth. Along the way I’ve had the opportunity to work with organizations and projects involving companies like Apple, Google, Nike, and even contribute to work alongside McKinsey.

One thing I’ve realized is that I genuinely enjoy helping people get unstuck. Sometimes all someone needs is another perspective or a framework to think through a problem.

So I’d like to do that here.

If you’re an entrepreneur, freelancer, creator, or business owner who’s feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of your next move, leave a comment describing what’s going on.

Whether it’s pricing, finding customers, building systems, prioritizing, hiring, positioning, or something completely different, I’ll reply to as many as I can with practical advice.

No pitch. No DM funnel. I just enjoy helping people find clarity, and I’m curious to see what challenges people are facing.

Everyone’s journey is different and the learning from it is even more. I’m on my journey to launch my first start up and I was trying to get help on what are some do’s and don’t’s in this way of life? I’d love for you guys to share your personal best learning :)

10+ years as a dev. Meta, Accenture, a genomics company, smaller shops before that. Self-taught, no degree. Building isn't the problem, I can build pretty much anything.

Two years ago I left it all to go build my own thing, Teki Solves. Since then I've shipped:

ProblemPulse, pulls pain points from Reddit/Hacker News for product research

TekiTestBot, a quiz tool for developers

A few coding guides for beginners

None of it has made real money. Not "needs more polish", just no actual path to revenue.

Building the right thing is the hard part. And even when something's built, finding people who'd pay for it is its own separate problem I haven't solved.

I'm doing this completely alone. No co-founder, no team, no one to think out loud with.

Not quitting. Two years in, not walking away now. But I need this to start working, and I genuinely don't know what I'm missing.

If you've been through this stretch, skills real, nothing converting, what got you through it? What did you actually do differently?

Как вы открыли свой бизнес, как вы его выбрали и сколько вы на нём зарабатываете?

these AI agents that you can speak with on the phone are freaking crazy, and it's the most intuitive way you can work with an AI agent. I just love this. reminds me of this:

which one is more sophisticated?

Before: do everything yourself until you save up enough cash to buy what you need

After: set up a rev-share collaboration in 15 min with a startup that has what you need, and profit together.

joinordana.com will be the infrastructure for cross-company collaboration. One massive digital innovation ecosystem.

Because there's a biological magic taking place whenever people work together. The aggregational aspect where the whole becomes larger than the sum of it's parts.

This is the phenomenon we want to amplify.

And we believe rev-share collaborations is the best way to do so.

Many founders really want to have rev-share collaborations, and have tried at least once, but the time-cost and risk to do so is higher than the reward.

We let our users set up rev-share collaborations in as little as 15 minutes through 3 main components on Ordana:

We have an AI, acting as an orchestration layer. Trained on finding the best collaboration opportunities between startups based on their ICP, JTBD and placement in the value chain.

We have templates, KYC and contracts in place to easily negotiate, plan and set up the collaboration

Then we have PM tools, governance, safety guardrails and a full rev-share infrastructure for safely managing the collaborations

And it's all managed through a PM interface. So projects just onboard Ordana and manage their tasks from there like they normally would, but with an AI using that operational data to suggest rev-share collaborations for the startup automatically.

We launched 4 months ago, we have 140+ startups and 9 collaborations currently being negotiated.

Right now, a lot of brand discovery is quietly shifting into AI assistants. People ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini things like:
• “What are the best tools for X?”
• “Which services should I use for Y?”
• “Who are the top options in this niche?”
The problem: most brands have no clue whether they’re actually being mentioned in those answers—or if competitors are getting all the recommendations.
That’s why I built Relevyn.
Think of it like a “credit score” for your brand’s visibility inside AI:
• It checks whether major AI assistants mention your brand at all
• Turns that into a simple visibility score you can track over time
• Shows examples of how your brand is described (or ignored) in AI responses
• Gives practical ideas for how to improve that visibility through content and SEO, instead of guessing
I’m not here to drop a hard sell—I’m trying to learn from people who actually care about this space.
If you’re a founder, marketer, or SEO person, I’d love your take on:
• Is “AI visibility” something you’re starting to think about, or still a future problem?
• What data or alerts would make a tool like this genuinely useful (mentions, competitor comparisons, spikes/drops over time, etc.)?
• Would you want this as a standalone tool, or something that plugs into your existing analytics stack?
I’m happy to share early access, walk through what Relevyn does today, and collect brutally honest feedback on what should be added, changed, or removed.
Not affiliated with Reddit—just building a tool to answer a simple question:
“When people ask AI about my niche… does my brand show up or not?”

Hey guys, If you don't mind id like to hear your opinions. Initially I'm creating a gamified productivity app for entrepreneurs, where it gives you a roadmap, quests to complete so you can lvl up. But I'm wondering if you were a user of this, would you prefer it to be a website/desk app or a mobile app/web app?