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Then do something about that! Don’t quit, go talk to the users and figure why they didn’t adopt. The answers are laying right in front of you but you seem deter
by dchuk 8y ago
Then do something about that! Don’t quit, go talk to the users and figure why they didn’t adopt. The answers are laying right in front of you but you seem deterred by doing the work. B2b is hard, try harder before quitting.
- mlevental 8y ago>The answers are laying right in front of you but you seem deterred by doing the work ...i've been the sole full-time founder for 9 months. i have worked every single day of those 9 months (doing everything - sales, customer success, investor relations, product). i am not deterred by work - i am deterred by the prospect of burning money chasing a delusion. the users didn't adopt for the same reason every users of every other advertising channel fail to engage: no one likes overt ads.
- danieltillett 8y agoIf it makes you feel any better it took me 11 years to make any money with my startup.
- matte_black 8y agoWhy did it take you 11 years? This doesn’t sound like a startup, more like a monetized hobby.
- danieltillett 8y agoIt is a long, long story [0]. 0. https://www.tillett.info/2015/06/24/why-i-kept-my-startup-in-australia-and-why-it-was-crazy/ https://www.tillett.info/2015/06/24/why-i-kept-my-startup-in...
- matte_black 8y agoWow, I would say though even if you had moved to the US you could have revised history a bit after you became successful and still been local heroes in Australia. Startups do this kind of creative story-retelling all the time.
- danieltillett 8y agoThe nice thing about bootstrapping is you don't have to get involved in these creative story-retellings. I was a fool and I am fine admitting it (in my own defence I was a scientist who really didn't know much about business). I should really write a follow up on this post as things have improved quite a lot here in Australia in regards funding. It is still difficult, but there is a startup ecosystem developing here.
- dchuk 8y ago9 months is nothing, especially in the B2B world. A lot of entrepreneurship is surviving the grind of the process itself.