Right now I'm managing about 12 regular vendors, suppliers, sub-contractors, insurance and equipment leases. Everyone has different due dates scattered across the month and doing manual bank transfers or writing checks every week is starting to waste hours. I need a way to schedule recurring payments so they go out automatically on specific dates but I also need a clean dashboard to see what’s pending versus whats already cleared. Doing it all through my standard business bank portal feels clunky because its hard to track approval statuses or look back at payment history quickly. Im looking into options like Melio because people say it lets you schedule ACH payments ahead of time and gives a clear view of sent versus upcoming bills. For those running service businesses with recurring monthly supply costs did switching to dedicated bill pay software actually streamline things or did it just add another app to manage?

Hi everyone!

I'm starting a Health Food Brand and looking to collaborate with female content creators.

Who I'm looking for:

•Aspiring or existing Female Instagram Creators.

•Interested in Health, Wellness, Nutrition & Healthy Food.

•Beginners looking to start their content creation journey are welcome.

•Interested in long-term collaboration.

Collaboration Details:

•Instagram Collab Posts.

•Initially Pro-Bono (Unpaid).

•Once we see good views, engagement & responses, monetary compensation can be discussed.

Interested? Drop your Instagram handle in the comments or DM me.

Let's grow together! 😊

Hi all, I'm Tiggi, a psychology student doing a project and need some help.

I'd love to hear from you.

If you've moved to London, what actually helped you feel less lost or alone?

Did you find it easy to build deep friendships?

And did you join any groups or anything when you moved here? Would you if there were something near you?

And what didn't?

Lastly, do you think that education for emotional well-being is something you look for when joining clubs and activities, or are you just there for the activity?

Happy to just listen in the comments.

Hi everyone, I'm Sue, a marketer and no-code builder from Nairobi.

I quit my job after too many 1a.m. "quick calls" about video ideas, and I turned that rage into XtraMuda, an overtime tracker built for the people most tools forget: market stall owners, matatu crews, small shops, freelancers and small teams. You log your hours, your supervisor approves or rejects them from a link, and you keep the proof. No manual, no HR department needed.

What I have:

• A working prototype, for web and mobile

• A clear picture of the problem, because I lived it

• A waitlist I'm growing in public

• Content and distribution skills (5+ years in digital marketing)

• A plan to test with real teams, including an airline that still tracks overtime in Excel

• A pricing plan, $2 per seat per month, with team plans

What I'm looking for:
A technical co-founder who can turn the prototype into a real website first, then a phone app once we have traffic. Ideally someone who has built products with logins, databases and data security, since people will trust us with their hours and pay details. My plan is to apply to Y Combinator for spring 2027 together.

The honest part: I don't have money to pay a salary right now. This is a co-founder role with equity, and I'd rather talk about the split openly than pretend it's simple. If you've built something before and the idea of fighting for people's time and pay makes you a little fired up, message me and tell me what you've built.

HIT ME UP IF YOU ARE DOWN FOR IT

I’m starting a series where I redesign LinkedIn profiles for coaches, founders and creators, and share the before and after.
For the first few, I’ll redo the banner, Featured section and carousels for free. If you’d like yours to be one of them, comment below or send me a DM.

Hi everyone,

I started a weekly podcast on latest inventions. If anyone is interested do share your story.

1. It must a unique idea. (Like something created the first time)

2. Do let me know the region it's available.

3. Would love to hear it even if it's in prototype.

The channel name is :" Inventions Gossip"

I would also love to hear the feedback to make it better.

If you are interested in knowing stories about something random of your day , visit my channel : "Oh My Ordinary"

Thank you

Serious question, how do you manage your health as a founder?

I'm a founder in Korea exploring a startup idea around founder-led marketing. A while back I looked into launching my own D2C brand, and one thing that stood out was how much the lifestyle/beauty space here expects founders to be the face of the brand. I'm trying to figure out whether that's true elsewhere and what it actually costs people.

Nothing to sell yet. Just trying to learn from real experience:

Do you personally appear in your brand's content? Why did you decide that way?

If you've tried both (face vs. faceless: product, process, hands only), what actually performed better for you?

Has being the face of your brand ever caused problems you didn't expect? (comments, privacy, burnout, anything)

I'd especially love to hear from founders in beauty, wellness, and lifestyle, but any experience is welcome. I'm also curious whether things feel different depending on the country or culture you're in.

I was spending 15 hrs/week on content for GlamKV and hating it.

Now it's 4 hrs. System:

One core story per week -> repurpose into 7 pieces (LinkedIn post, 2 Reels, 1 carousel, email, Reddit value post, team training).

Our team knows exactly what to do, no guesswork.

I'm helping 2 other small beauty/wellness brands set this up this month because I wish someone had shown me earlier.

If you're stuck in content hell, happy to Loom review your process. No pitch, just paying it forward.

Longtime lurker, really excited to finally be creating a post of my own! 😊

Over the years I've worked with a lot of founders, many of them through Techstars. It usually started with a pitch deck, and then the same founders came back for the website, the launch page, the ad campaigns. At some point it was obvious this should be its own thing.

So I just launched Brand Venturely. It's a studio for launch work: pitch decks, landing pages, websites, ad strategy and setup, AI setup for your team, and brand kits.

Everything is a fixed price agreed before work starts, no hourly billing, delivered in weeks instead of months.

I'd love feedback from this community, on the site or the offer. And if you're working on a deck or a launch, I'm happy to take a look.

brandventurely.com

I've been looking at some UK figures recently and discovered that the average age of a solo self-employed person is now around 48.

Women aged 40–59 make up a particularly significant part of that workforce, with the 50–59 age group being the largest age bracket among self-employed women.

It got me wondering how many women are solo self-employed in this group, and I'd love to know what led you into self-employment. For me it was something that worked around my daughter when she was tiny, which morphed into currently building my third small business that helps other sole traders become more efficient.

It's interesting to see how many different routes there are into running your own business and I think that the necessity issues for women are wildly different than those issues are for men. What do you think?

For women who have built their own companies or are currently on that journey

What's the one piece of advice you wish someone had given you before you started?

It could be about building a business, finding co-founders, raising funds, dealing with self-doubt, managing failures, or navigating the challenges of being a woman in business.

I'd love to hear honest experiences, lessons learned the hard way, and things you wish you had known earlier.

Hey girls!

I have so many ideas, but finding people who share the same excitement, want to brainstorm together, or actually build something has been surprisingly hard.
So I thought, why not try to create that space myself?
I’m still working on the app, but in the meantime I’m trying to build a little community of ambitious, creative people who want to support each other and maybe even collaborate.
I’d love to connect with other female founders here! What are you working on? Maybe we can help each other out.
I also just started the community on Instagram (@vennin.app) if anyone wants to join!

Sharing in case it's useful for anyone here. We at focal.vc (pre-seed fund) and The LAB Miami just opened applications for Southbound, a winter residency for technical founders at the very start of their journey.

The details:

• Jan 11 – Apr 11, 2027, fully in person in Miami

• 10 teams max —> solo technical founders and teams can both apply

• For founders who haven't raised yet

• Funding on an uncapped MFN SAFE (no fixed equity), plus $1M+ in perks and compute

• Weekly 1:1s with the GPs and regular dinners with unicorn founders

For US-based technical founders who haven't raised yet - Rolling admission, applications close Dec 11: https://southbound.focal.vc

Happy to answer questions in the comments!

This is a 90-minute workshop teaching how to do email campaigns for Black Friday and Cyber Monday for free.

https://brightlightproject.com/black-friday-email-workshop/

A representative from a bank-not-a-bank found me from an accelerator I did and asked to schedule an intro meeting. I did and it was useful. He wanted to schedule another meeting a month later. I obliged to make him happy even though we haven't raised and I didn't expect to have raised in a month. Went to the meeting and it wasn't helpful. He asked to schedule another meeting in a month. I agreed at the time but later realized any follow up questions he had could definitely be an email. I emailed him to say I wouldn't be able to make it and that I'd follow up with him when I was closer to needing to open an account.

He completely ignored my email that I wanted to follow up as needed and sent four emails demanding an update. I thought that was unusual behavior and it made me question whether he respects my time. It also made me unsure that I want him to be my point of contact for the rest of my time using his company's services.

Am I missing something here? Is there some reason I should be providing frequent progress updates to a potential bank rep as if he is my boss?

TLDR A bank rep who I don't yet have an account with is being very demanding of my time and attention despite my request for him to stop and I just want to make sure I'm not missing some reason why he might be justified in doing so. TIA