How to share your startup on r/Entrepreneurship

TL;DR

r/Entrepreneurship is a free subreddit with about 146,000 members (October 2026) built around entrepreneurship questions and advice. Its rules ban self-promotion and low-effort link posts, and every survey needs moderator approval before it goes up. It suits founders who want straight answers from peers and who can talk about their startup without selling it.

How we checked: we read these rules through public subreddit trackers in October 2026. Read the sidebar and the pinned posts before you post, since moderators update the rules.

What is r/Entrepreneurship?

The community describes itself as "A community dedicated to entrepreneurship questions and advice." GummySearch counted a gain of about 38,000 members in the year to 26 October 2026, growth of 34.6%. It is a separate subreddit from r/Entrepreneur and r/Entrepreneurs.

The feed has a clear mood. Struggling is the most common topic in GummySearch's sample with 29 posts, well ahead of business (9) and startup (8). Advice requests and money talk fill the rest, with posts like "How did you get your first 10 Customers? Not the funding story, the actual channel." Members know the promotion ban so well that some add "(Not self-promotion)" to their titles.

ThreadFox recorded five rules on 26 September 2026:

1. Be respectful: no personal attacks.
2. Moderators' discretion: moderators remove content at any time, for any reason.
3. No self-promotion: "No spamming, low effort post, blogspam or promoting yourself." Low-effort self-promotion ends in a ban.
4. No low-effort posts: sales pitches and posts of a few words plus a link can get you banned, and so can images or videos without context.
5. Surveys need approval: surveys and market research posts of any kind must be approved by moderators first.

Who should post on r/Entrepreneurship?

Good fit:

• Founders with a hard decision to talk through: first customers, pricing, quitting a job.
• Students and first-time founders who want honest feedback from people further along.
• Founders who want to run customer research and are willing to ask the moderators first.

Skip it:

• Anyone who wants to announce a launch: rule 3 bans it and the penalty is a ban.
• Anyone after SEO: Reddit links carry nofollow, and the DA 95 belongs to reddit.com, so your site gets no ranking credit.

How much does r/Entrepreneurship cost?

Posting is free. Paid reach on Reddit goes through Reddit Ads, a separate product.

How do you share your startup on r/Entrepreneurship?

1. Open r/Entrepreneurship, join, and read the sidebar rules and pinned posts before you write anything.
2. Turn your startup into a question. Describe the decision you face, with numbers: "We have 40 paying users from cold email and none from content. Where would you spend the next three months?"
3. Mention your company in one sentence as context, keep links out of the title and body, and share the URL in a comment only when someone asks.
4. For a survey or customer interview request, message the moderators through modmail and wait for a yes before you post.

Tips to get more out of r/Entrepreneurship

• Share the struggle with figures: real revenue, costs and timelines earn better replies than a vague complaint.
• Answer before you ask. A detailed reply to a "first 10 customers" thread, told through your own startup, introduces your company without breaking rule 3.
• Write in full paragraphs, since rule 4 targets short posts with a link.
• Get survey approval in writing before you post a form, since unapproved research posts break rule 5.

Our verdict

r/Entrepreneurship is a mid-size community of about 146,000 members with a strict line on promotion. Use it for honest questions and research with moderator approval, and post your launch somewhere that welcomes launches.

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