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Ask HN: What's the toughest problem in your startup?
Cofounder relationship? Product development? Marketing? Finance? Employee hiring/relationship?
- RKoutnik 14y agoAs a full-time student and husband-to-be, finding time in the midst my other priorities. Make sure you carve out time to work or it'll never happen.
- mindcrime 14y agoAll three co-founders work day jobs, so time is a huge issue. There's just SO much work to do, and we're all limited to nights and weekends right now. But we don't really want to raise outside money right now either. So it's a tough balancing act, trying to get the product built, do customer development, develop marketing materials, define product strategy, do PR, etc. while working by day. Still, we're making progress, albeit more slowly than I'd like. And if we can land a first customer or two, then we'd probably start thinking about trying to raise funding, and go full-time on the startup.
- shankar1221989 14y agogetting clients to pay. We run a B2B business in India. Though we deliver, the customers take loads of time to acknowledge, and as a result we are forced to followup more. This sort of restricts our growth to a full SAAS product.
- speeder 14y agoThe hardest part on my current startup is slipping traction. We are consistently hitting high review scores from both users and critics, yet downloads are abysmal.
- Mz 14y agoI don't have a "company" -- i.e. something incorporated. What I do is a bit more one-woman-show/grass roots. Historically, public image (aka trust of my audience) has been my big issue. In the past year, I have made in-roads on that issue. Things are better recently. Next up: I need more traffic and when I have that I will need to work more on monetization. For now, I am happy to no longer be a pariah everywhere I go.