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>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
by mlevental 9y 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 9y agoIf it makes you feel any better it took me 11 years to make any money with my startup.
- matte_black 9y agoWhy did it take you 11 years? This doesn’t sound like a startup, more like a monetized hobby.
- danieltillett 9y 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 9y 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 9y 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 9y ago9 months is nothing, especially in the B2B world. A lot of entrepreneurship is surviving the grind of the process itself.