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I have the data, lots of it. I have lots of learning. What I built was to help people get into college and career by connecting them with a role model in colleg
by nisthana 10y ago
I have the data, lots of it. I have lots of learning. What I built was to help people get into college and career by connecting them with a role model in college or companies. It's a mentoring platform.
What I found the hard way is that I cannot build a long term sustaining business out of mentoring. So investors did not want to get into it.
The users used it only for to get one time advice from mentors and then never came back. There was nothing viral about it.
I developed a good strategy to increase awareness of the product locally but failed to distribute it to the masses (I used Facebook Ads). If I had funds, I could have hired a growth hacker or a good marketing person to at least make people aware because if people don't know about it, they won't use it.
The product is still running. However I cannot invest my savings any more on it. Job is an option (I am in Silicon valley so there are plenty). But its so hard to leave everything I've built behind and go back to working for someone else :-((