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Can you tell me more about the problems you faced with your startup? My experience with 2017 has been the same in terms of working at the highest paying job I'v
by BlackjackCF 9y ago
Can you tell me more about the problems you faced with your startup? My experience with 2017 has been the same in terms of working at the highest paying job I've had in my career. However, I AM thinking about leaving the traditional job market at some point to start my own start up in the next 3 years. I want some reality checks though.
- firefoxd 9y agoThe main problem we had is over promising. For every client we had, the CEO promised some features we cannot deliver. Many of the financial decisions made wasted tons of money. (Microsoft Azure is not for your up and coming start up, too expensive) I tend to favor meeting one customer at a time to understand the problem we are trying to solve, but we went for bulk email and spamming. The few clients I met one on one still believe in us today. The startup idea was good. The solution was poorly executed, and we had too many chefs in the kitchen (5 co-founders). I hope this makes sense.
- milofeynman 9y agoHah that happened at the startup I worked at. Between Sales and CEO they were promising the moon. At one point the CEO said our product used block chain in his slide deck. Not a single Dev has ever discussed block chain it was just out of nowhere.
- nunez 9y agoDid they try getting bizspark? Or did they have it but overuse their limits?
- firefoxd 9y agoWe used bizspark. But that only lasts a while then you are left with a huge bill every months.