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This is exactly what I've been doing. It started with me coding the MVP myself with a little help from a summer intern and then me aggressively handling all sal
by cardine 10y ago
This is exactly what I've been doing. It started with me coding the MVP myself with a little help from a summer intern and then me aggressively handling all sales myself until I reached a 5+ figure MRR where I could finally start to delegate some of that work to others.
Now we are growing like any other startup would, just instead of being fueled by VC funding, we are being fueled by all of the profits from all of the selling I was able to do and all of the word of mouth that happened afterwards.
You've probably never heard of me and no media outlet cares about me because I started as a not so sexy B2B, but the company and its products are growing much more ambitious in scope as we are getting the capital to do so, and now we are in the same position as many other VC funded companies, except I have 100% equity and don't have to worry about searching for a way to become profitable or running out of money since the second I decide to stop reinvesting everything into growth the company will instantly be extremely profitable.
- jacquesm 10y agoFantastic story, really neat to see you making it in this way. That's real entrepreneurship. The only thing that can hurt you is some venture backed start-up going aggressively after your customers by undercutting you until they run out of cash.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoGreat story. Congratulations. This part... "except I have 100% equity and don't have to worry about searching for a way to become profitable or running out of money since the second I decide to stop reinvesting everything into growth the company will instantly be extremely profitable." ...is the grand finale that comes with VC-less businesses. :)
- omarchowdhury 10y agoWordAI?
- chatmasta 10y agoI've heard of you. You're a pretty famous guy! ;)