Welcome to r/startups, a community for all backgrounds, levels of expertise, and business experience.
What is a startup?
Startups are designed to scale/grow rapidly. Startups utilize tech to do this. Startups can be non-tech companies that utilize tech. Startups are information era companies and they are creating the new best practices in business.
/r/startups
We share interesting discussions and stories about our startup journeys, both the failures, the successes, and the embarrassments. Our best traits are authenticity and integrity.
We want to know who you want to ask anything!
We are working on a consistent AMA schedule. Tell us who you want to interview in that thread.
Message the mods for instructions on how to get flair verifying your experience.
1.Relevant Content Only
We are a community of discussion based around startups, not traditional businesses.
All content must be relevant to startups.
You are welcome to ask how to apply startup methodologies to your traditional business if you frame your question in a non-promotional way. We want you to be able to ask any question that helps your startup.
2.No direct sales, advertisements, or promotion
No direct sales, advertisements, or promotional posts of any kind. We have designated places that are an exception to this rule and they will always be stickied at the top of /r/startups.
- You MAY share your startup in the Monthly Share Your Startup thread
Self-promotion is anything you have an interest, stake or relationship with including being friends with someone at the company.
At the end of the day, /r/startups moderators have the final say if your comments are promotional or not.
3.Submissions Serve a Specific Purpose
Submissions are for discussing methodologies, experiences, tactics, strategies, techniques, markets, and other such things WITHOUT tying them directly to your own project using its name or URL.
Titles must be clear and descriptive.
Submissions must have at least 250 characters of content. The mo
