[mlevental]

>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.

[dchuk]

9 months is nothing, especially in the B2B world. A lot of entrepreneurship is surviving the grind of the process itself.

[danieltillett]

If it makes you feel any better it took me 11 years to make any money with my startup.

[matte_black]

Why did it take you 11 years? This doesn’t sound like a startup, more like a monetized hobby.

[danieltillett]

It is a long, long story [0].

0. https://www.tillett.info/2015/06/24/why-i-kept-my-startup-in...

[matte_black]

Wow, 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]

The 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.