Launchbyte Podcast

This week we are talking about Building a Team for your Start up. What are the skills you need in your team? Can you outsource some of these roles? Why would having it done internally be better? All this and more coming up in the show.

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Here are some of our sharing?

What kind of talent are you recruiting?

* Developers?

* Sales?

* Growth Hackers?

* Designers?

We believe that it depends on the stage of startup you are in. At the start it is likely your focus would be on the developers. As you moved you, you might like to get marketers and sales staff.

We believe the challenge is not in determining the talents that you need but more to finding the right team member?

Where do you find them?

* Events, would be a great place to start.

* Facebook Group, such as

This week Chris and I discuss about startup game plan. It is not a 20 pages kind of business plan but rather a single page plan that sets the direction and vision of the company. This game plan we believe is the building block of building a company.

You may have a great idea but with execution done wrong. Everything would go to waste.

But can a game plan guarantee the success of your startup? The answer is no but it can certainly help you is building your roadmap.

What are the things needed in a game plan?

* Vision: To be the largest social network for pets?

* Financial Projections: To prepare for 18 months or have a 5 year plan?

* Goals: Different goals at different stages?

* Resources: Your team? money? and connections?

* Time frames: Build a company to sell, exit in 3 years? or to build a one hundred years company like Evernote?

* Stages of a Start up: Product building stage? Sales stage? or Growth stage? Different tasks a

If you are planning to start your own business, you would usually be faced with the issue of raising capital.

Many of my friends who are starting out faced the same issues too and they usually have the following questions in mind:

* Should I bootstrap or should I be raising capital?

* If I raised capital, how much equity should I give out?

* How do I value my company now?

* Who are the investors?

* Will I lose control of the company?

These are some of the questions that you have in your mind too. This week we open up and we discuss about the pros and cons of raising venture capital. We also look at the difference between VC funding and Angel Funding.

Worth Reading

* Flipboard founder on venture capitalists: “Take their money”

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This week Chris and I go crazy with WWDC. We tear down the features and discuss what it means for both developers and users.

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Shownotes

* WWDC: The Verge has come up with a 10 minutes video covering all the gist of the keynote.

* iOS: Lifehacker gives the most concise summary for all the new stuff on iOS 8. I love the new Photos app on iPhone and it does steals away a bit of limelight from Googleplus photos.

* Yosemite: From Lifehacker, everything you need to know about OS X 10.10 “Yosemite”.

Hosts

Chris Cai – @anttyc Bryan Lee –

This week, we have Tomboy Tarts and Weileen to talk about how we can grow our audience with SEO.

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* Google Hangout

Tools used for SEO

* Mozbar

* WooRank

Tools used for Content Marketing

* See how your blog post turns up on Facebook

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This week, Chris and I shares our view on the coup in Thailand and how social media is affecting the situation. We also talked about Facebook is rolling out a “Privacy checkup” feature which I just caught it on my feed. If you have a moment, I love hear your views about how we do? Good, bad or should we stop doing this to break your ears. Tweet us

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Tech News Of The Week

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Facebook gets serious about privacy with “checkups” for all, change to “Friends only” setting

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Big surge in mobile data usage as Thailand goes into day 2 of military coup

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This week, Bryan attended his first overseas wedding on Sat, so we had our podcast recorded late. We put our focus on Microsoft in Home Automation and Xiaomi “The China Apple”.

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Tech News Of The Week

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Microsoft

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Flappy Bird

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Xiaomi

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Apple

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GrabTaxi

Hosts

Chris

This week, we talk about the rumours on Apple buying Beats, Google Maps update and Should I continue with Nightly now that Yahoo came up with a News Digest app.

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Tech News Of The Week

* From BBC Apple ‘in talks’ to buy Beats for $3.2bn

2 . From Google Google Maps adds Uber

* From TechInAsia Yahoo News Digest

* From Vulcan Harvard grad wows the world with 3D make-up printing.

* From Twitter Opinion

This week, We talk about the Facebook F8 Developer Conference, Is the tablet market dying?, how about Twitter’s growth? Is it more important to make money or to have user growth? And finally, using reddit to express your feeling and emotions.

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Announcement

We are launching a new video podcasting channel. Check out some of the background works in place.

Tech News Of The Week

* From Cnet – Samsung launched new audio products

* From Ben-evans – iPads and tablet growth

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This is the last episode of the Bootstrappers series. Previously, we talked to Ian Tay from Pixaroll about finding users who would pay for your product, Kyaw Lin Oo from EventNook about working on side projects to boost your confidence, and Jerome Chan from Ideas Incubator and Petfie about following your heart.

Last but not least, let’s talk about the money. Bootstrapping is particularly difficult because founders need to survive on the little money that they have. For Vincent Teo and Ang Qian Ling, who used to work in advertising firms, having a budget is really important, especially when they have few resources. Here, e27 chats them up about being selective when it comes to new ideas, and the constant wonder if they could grow any faster if they have more money.

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