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Seriously, who are these people who believe that sales alone can fix everything or building a great product alone can change their life? Everyone, and I mean l

Seriously, who are these people who believe that sales alone can fix everything or building a great product alone can change their life? Everyone, and I mean literally every human being I have interacted with on this topic have assured me of the difficulty, complexity, and multifaceted-ness, of what it takes to get something going from ideation to profit, either through their fear of stepping into this territory of entrepreneurship or through their experience. And anyone who has been an entrepreneur or at least has tested the water will definitely have some sort of intuition for what it takes. If people still rely on a single factor, either they are one of those fraudulent aholes or the asocial nerds who should improve their sales skills(or hire someone who has the required skills). Never understood people taking about the multivariate and complex nature of life. It is complex and multivariate; and everyone knows it.

e1g 6y ago
"Sales fix everything" is a shortcut for "There are many experienced people who can help fix most problems your company is currently struggling with, and if you give them lots of money they will help you win.". You can throw money at most issues in HR, retention, brand, marketing, government issues, customer support, engineering speed, infrastructure. Of course, it is possible to hire stupid people who will hurt you, but we can assume basic competence on behalf of the successful entrepreneur and that she can find competent helpers. In business, if you have a product nobody wants, you generally fail. If you have no means of capitalizing your company, you generally fail. But if you turn the product into a money-printing machine, you will resolve other problems with enough iterations. Sales momentum does not make your startup immortal but sets the company on a better trajectory than another startup with amazing culture, great passion, but no customers/revenue.
- 6510 6y ago
  I've also seen companies that are such a complete mess and have such terrible product that they should just die fix everything with sales. I worked for one that (on average) spend 950 euro to sell a 1000 euro product that isn't worth 5 euro. (It was extra "funny" since I just gave up trying to "sell" a similar vastly superior product for free. "Suspiciously cheap" was my potential clients verdict 99% of the time. After all, from all angles, every day of the week, they were offered the same product for 1000 euro!) I never sold anything working there but that was perfectly normal.

e1g 6y ago

"Sales fix everything" is a shortcut for "There are many experienced people who can help fix most problems your company is currently struggling with, and if you give them lots of money they will help you win.". You can throw money at most issues in HR, retention, brand, marketing, government issues, customer support, engineering speed, infrastructure. Of course, it is possible to hire stupid people who will hurt you, but we can assume basic competence on behalf of the successful entrepreneur and that she can find competent helpers. In business, if you have a product nobody wants, you generally fail. If you have no means of capitalizing your company, you generally fail. But if you turn the product into a money-printing machine, you will resolve other problems with enough iterations. Sales momentum does not make your startup immortal but sets the company on a better trajectory than another startup with amazing culture, great passion, but no customers/revenue.

6510 6y ago
I've also seen companies that are such a complete mess and have such terrible product that they should just die fix everything with sales. I worked for one that (on average) spend 950 euro to sell a 1000 euro product that isn't worth 5 euro. (It was extra "funny" since I just gave up trying to "sell" a similar vastly superior product for free. "Suspiciously cheap" was my potential clients verdict 99% of the time. After all, from all angles, every day of the week, they were offered the same product for 1000 euro!) I never sold anything working there but that was perfectly normal.