r/ukstartups

Seeing a lot more early-stage UK founders exploring Indian talent pools as a way to stretch runway without sacrificing quality. The EOR model (where a UK-registered company employs the staff in India on your behalf) has made it much more legally straightforward than it was 3–4 years ago.

For those who've done it:
→ What roles did you hire for first?
→ How did you manage onboarding remotely?
→ Any red flags or mistakes to avoid?

For those who haven't:
→ What's holding you back - quality concerns, legal uncertainty, or something else?

Seeing a lot more early-stage UK founders exploring Indian talent pools as a way to stretch runway without sacrificing quality. The EOR model (where a UK-registered company employs the staff in India on your behalf) has made it much more legally straightforward than it was 3–4 years ago.

For those who've done it:
→ What roles did you hire first?
→ How did you manage onboarding remotely?
→ Any red flags or mistakes to avoid?

For those who haven't:
→ What's holding you back - quality concerns, legal uncertainty, or something else?

We work in this space (Black Piano — blackpiano.co.uk)
and happy to answer any compliance or process questions
that come up in the thread.

Hi everyone,

How you find a job with a start up without being full time. I'm an Senior Software engineer currently working in a good job, comfy and easy. I've good experience and have worked for many companies.

I've worked before in large start up (Size 50--till it had 300+ employees)

Currently looking to find a job (part time or contracting, or even volunteering off the records). Something where I can spend few hours a week or the weekend helping the start up grow and pick up new skills/learn about the domain and start ups environment.

Where you find such opportunities, the jobs I applied to at start ups(and manged to get offers) were full time.

Linkedin? YC?Jungle? WellFound? (nothing worked out yet)

1. 29, Oxford maths, YC alumni

2. Run a lean solo business doing £40K/mo profit on autopilot for last 9 months

3. There’s a clear way to 10x this to £400K/mo but it requires infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet

4. That missing infrastructure is the new company. My existing business becomes customer one generating £400K+ in annualised revenue from day one

5. There are 10,000+ others in my industry hitting the exact same ceiling. I’ve spoken to dozens who confirm this

6. 1,000 customers on the platform = 9 figures in annual revenue

7. Requires building out the supply side of a marketplace

8. Looking for a cofounder who loves operations, marketplaces, and fundraising

9. Can bootstrap far on existing revenue but scaling into a dominant position will require raising

Reach out if you want to build something very large together. Happy to share the full thesis on a call.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hi

Looking for advice on the milestones I should be aiming for given my situation. Thank you for any advice.

I’ve been working on a project for the last 5 months.

Solo developer and technical founder (albeit really just a passionate project of mine). The idea is this, imagine coding but on the move, not being constrained to your laptop and not being constrained to one coding agent.I have a working product but need to improve it, specially the UI, there’s a lot of technical challenges to continue wrestling with but most of the hard work is done.

I have a 9-5 this is just been something that I see the usecase for (why do I have to code from home if a lot of the work can be orchestrated away through coding agents, and my job is more to focus on design and making sure what’s happening stays on track).

I’m kind of don’t know what to do next, I see the potential of it, but there’s still a lot of work.

I’m contemplating do I quit my 9-5 and work on this full time and then try getting some backers and a team this way. Or do I focus on getting some backers/team without any users while holding onto my 9-5 and then quit when there’s critical mass (and which is more of a priority backers or a start up team)?

I can quit my job and have about a 6 month runway but scared.

Would appreciate any advice or wisdom, all advice is appreciated. Thank you.