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by codegeek
1843 days ago
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"I've been working on this company for 2 years and am finally starting to look for funding." Do you have any paying customers yet ? It seems like you are saying that you worked for 2 years before getting customers (I am assuming based on your tone) and now you are dependent on funding to move forward otherwise you are feeling burnt out ? I admire your courage so far but please tell me you have at least a few paying customers ? Nothing makes you happier than knowing that product/idea is validated with at least few (even if handful) paying customers. If that is not the case, no wonder you are feeling what you are feeling because you are in that mode where one fine day with funding, everything will be great. All the best. I just wanted to give it to you straight as another fellow founder. Whenever I feel down or stressed, I look at the paying customers we have and the validated product which makes me keep going even though growth sucks at times. |
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The industry I'm in requires a ridiculous amount of pre-work before a client is willing to sign a paid contract (should've mentioned this is a B2B industry). I'm in the signing process with a client now, so will have a paying client and proper users later this year (high volume of users with this one client).
I def hear you that paying, validated customers gives direction and purpose to the whole enterprise. I'll focus on achieving that. The funding is more for the fact that I have major features that I can't implement myself while also rolling out to this customer.